Virtual internships: Why ‘engagement and experience’ are key

As most employees remain working from home in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, internships are also following suit and going virtual. But, moving to an online setting isn’t as easy as just creating a series of Zoom meetings.

“It’s firstly working out the interactions that make work shadowing or on-the-job training successful and then performing a gap analysis to figure out what is mostly likely going to be lost in translation virtually and how these can be recreated,” says Jane Clark, global head of emerging talent consulting at Alexander Mann Solutions...