Internship2Career:2010 Fall Display glossary

Information on Internships.

Internships are paid or unpaid job opportunities designed to help students get experience in the field they are studying. These positions are usually temporary and the budget is set aside by companies and corporations to hire new limited intern in each program.

Companies that accept interns are usually looking for students who can do low level tasks. There two reasons for this. With this students can learn from the very basic level what goes on in the company while they get a new base level employee.

The beauty of internships is that they count as a job on the resume. The entire point of them is to help build contacts and experience to prepare a student for the new world.

Internships are mostly offered in on the go fields. Fortune 500 companies that are looking to recruit new people or departments that are growing in size. Accounting, marketing, Programming, Networking…..now days almost every department in an industry uses an intern. This design give students fresh out of college to have a shot of getting a job in the real world.

Glossary of Terms

PHP – a hypertext processing language used to design dynamic web pages.

Database – A collection of Information gathered and organized.

Internship – A paid or unpaid program designed to help students gain experience.

Tables – Consist of records and cells, that are used to organized the database.

SQL – The programming language used to code databases

Form - A Webpage that allows for communication between user and the company

HTML – the language used to code websites.

To explain how the web site works the form will be broken down and its purpose listed below.

First Name – The chosen legal name given to the applicant

Last Name – The chosen legal surname given to the applicant

Student ID – A 9 digit number given to students attending the school.

Major – Chosen area of study Year – Year starting the college.

Sponsor ID – ID number given to company providing the Internship

Supervisor – Name of your boss

Title – The job title you have been given or the company is offering

Instance ID – Auto generated primary key for the job.

Other terms you may need to know.

Faculty – worker at UNHM

Alumni – the student body, past and present