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For some people the point of an internship is to just get the requirement over with. When you first start an internship you may not know if you want to work in that field and that is ok. By the end of the internship however it is probably very clear how you feel about the field you have been working in, both to you and to your boss. If you love this field there is no reason why you can not turn this internship into a job. If you don’t love the field you are working in, it may be a little harder to turn the internship into a job , but you have to remember that there are always connections that you have gained who may have job opportunities that will help you move on to the next place you may want to be employed.

Talk to your boss as the internship ends. Many internships turn into jobs within the same company. Sometimes it is doing the same thing that you were doing before, but more often than not there is an increase in responsibilities and many more things to learn. Sometimes it even means an entire job change. Southwestern Company is actually built on this principal that you get a bunch of summer interns, and those that work out well get hired on to other parts of the company. Some of them will work directly with the company, but others will work as one of Southwestern C’s independent contractors who get jobs through some programs that Southwestern Company keeps going. This gives them to opportunity to work either for Southwestern Company’s clients or to work for themselves. If you can’t take sales for a whole summer there are other instances of this happening. The key to remember here, like in any other part of the world is that starting from the bottom can be rewarded if you work for the right people and you do the things you love.

If your boss does say no and they can’t afford to hire you back on, chances are that you have been hanging with the rest of the company, talking to them, getting to know them, learning from them. Some of your co-workers may know of places where you can go job hunt. The experience that you have interning will work to your advantage and rival companies will be able to see that you were an asset at the other company. Just make sure that you don’t tell people why you left the other company. Revealing financial instability is not considered a good hiring point.