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Our Business School offers a range of real-world business experiences including internships and business consulting projects across a range of disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, hospitality management, human resource management, international business, management, marketing, property and sports management. Students have the opportunity to develop career skills and build professional network while gaining real industry experience. This may be conducted face-to-face, in an online environment or as a hybrid of both face-to-face and online real-world work experiences.

In this fast pace and ever-changing environment, it is now more important than ever for graduates to be able to provide evidence to future employers of their skills and abilities. While an academic transcript can provide employers with useful information about a student’s performance, an internship can demonstrate how a graduate transfers these learned skills into the workplace and applies the important skills of communication, teamwork and problem-solving.

An internship is a win-win opportunity for both employers and students. While employers are able to secure innovative, skilled students to assist with projects, students are able to gain a taste of their chosen career and build their portfolio to assist with future career opportunities. In some cases, internships can lead to future successful recruitment activities between the employer and the student.

Our School offers both paid internships and unpaid internships for students across a range of organisations including small to medium sized businesses (SMEs), large corporations, the government sector (local, state, federal) and the not-for-profit sector. A range of organisations that the School of Business has partnered with are showcased on this page.

Paid internships��are advertised to students via the��91���� Careers Hub.��Please email��careers@westernsydney.edu.au��to advertise your paid internships or alternatively contact����if you would like more information or to speak with someone from the School about offering a paid internship.

Unpaid internships��are offered to students for academic credit and are linked to the learning outcomes of a specific course or unit (subject). Such internships involve a placement agreement with the employer. Students are allocated an academic supervisor and are covered for insurance purposes by the University while they are on placement. Further information about Western Sydney’s unpaid internships is contained below.

Our partner enterprises and organisations gain access to our best, experienced, skilled and innovative students to work on key projects. Internships are eagerly sought by students to gain experience in an industry or sector specific environment (or workspace) and offer key insights and knowledge on specific projects within an enterprise or organisation.

SGSM Business Internships are unpaid, and project-based to be aligned with specific units (subjects) with their academic courses. SGSM runs an Internship Round every Quarter, placing students in Internships four times per year within a few weeks of the commencement of each quarter. Students can undertake a Business Internship over 1-Quarter (up to 3 months) that is credited to one unit (subject), or over 2-Quarters.

We are always seeking new partnerships with enterprises and organisations who are keen to offer online internships where the students can work on projects that help them to gain insights into working in a specific vocation/professional work environment. These Internships should enable students to contribute knowledge gained from their Business courses at SGSM through a project and they should always add value to the organisations that they work for.

If you are looking to offer an SGSM Business Internship and would like more information, please contact:

General Inquiries:��business.internships@westernsydney.edu.au��OR Dr. Laurel Jackson, Director of Postgraduate Education, WSU SGSM:��la.jackson@westernsydney.edu.au

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