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Internship in Human Relations

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Concordia University
Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cédric Jamet
Lecturer
(3)
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Timeline
  • October 16, 2022
    Experience start
  • January 17, 2023
    Mid-internship evaluation meeting
  • March 28, 2023
    Final Evaluation Meeting
  • April 12, 2023
    Experience end
Experience
3/10 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Canada
Startup, Social Enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Family-Owned
Education, Environment, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Individual & family services

Experience scope

Categories
Leadership Organizational structure Internal communications Workplace culture Social sciences
Skills
community development organizational development program design research facilitation
Learner goals and capabilities

Are you looking to provide additional or expanded services to your clients, or work on special projects but don't have adequate resources or time to do so?

Our students have successfully completed a comprehensive range of courses, cultivating skills around understanding organizations and communities and facilitating interventions in small group settings. As facilitators, they will be able to assess the situation, identify needs and develop new programs or initiatives, and help your organization build effective teams.

Their well developed interpersonal and communication skills will most likely be assets to your business or community environment.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
18 learners
Project
200 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The deliverables will be agreed upon with the organization, as part of a contract with the students.

Internship Requirements

  • Students will devote a minimum of 200 hours over the fall/winter term to their placements site
  • Students will engage in work that relates to their human relations training and expertise. Areas of study from which the student may draw during the internship experience include interpersonal communication, group dynamics and group process, small group leadership, program design, facilitation, organizational and/or community development, and research methods
  • To ensure students have the opportunity to intervene in human systems on different levels, there are two specific requirements to be fulfilled within the internship, a group experience and an organizational project:

1. Group experience

The internship student will engage in at least one of the two following activities:

  1. a) Design, implement and evaluation a 6-8 session program with a specific training or psycho-educative focus.

OR

  1. b) Provide process facilitation to a group over a period of at least 8 sessions in order to improve its functioning and productivity.

The group should have a stable, continuing and constant membership of adults, adolescents or children over the age of 10. Group members must be cognitively cognizant. The key is that the participants must be capable and interested in influencing the direction of their group.

2. Organizational Project

The intern will develop and implement a project that requires him/her to gain an understanding of the organization’s functioning and that will have an impact on the organization (or department, if the organization is very large). Previous organizational projects have included: conducting research to be used by the organization, reviewing and revamping existing procedures and/or developing new ones, conducting a needs assessment of a particular client group, and working with management on organizational change projects.

Project timeline
  • October 16, 2022
    Experience start
  • January 17, 2023
    Mid-internship evaluation meeting
  • March 28, 2023
    Final Evaluation Meeting
  • April 12, 2023
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

In their internship projects, students are expected to devote 200 hours to a client organization, in work that relates to their human relations training and expertise. They are asked to design, facilitate and evaluate an intervention or program with a group of participants or stakeholders.

The possible fields of intervention can be (non-exhaustive list):

  • Workshops (possible themes: conflict, interpersonal communications, collaboration, etc.);
  • Programs (possible themes: trust building, team development, skill sharing, community development, intergenerational relationships, cultural diversity, youth work);
  • An organization development intervention (ex: strategy session, strategic planning, team development, onboarding plan, employee retention strategy, etc.);
  • A series of community conversations to explore a topic or a question of interest (ex: inclusion, community, resilience, sustainability, etc.)

Internship Purpose and Goals

  • To enable students to gain professional experience as well as an appreciation and understanding of the roles, duties, and responsibilities of the practice of human relations in a real world context.
  • To provide students with opportunities to integrate theory and practice.
  • To encourage the exchange of contemporary views on current issues and practices between the intern, professionals in the field, and the academic cohort and supervisor.
  • To enable students to increase their knowledge in order to make informed choices concerning future jobs, learning experiences, and/or further areas of study
  • To enable students to recognize personal strengths and challenges in the field of human relations.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Be available for a phone call with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course, as well as regular check-in on progress.

Provide feedback to the student in order to assess their professionalism and the completion of objectives.

Provide a dedicated contact who is available over the duration of the project to address students' questions and provide feedback (ideally once a week).