What is an internship?
Depending on your program, you will have the chance to carry out an internship, a supervised project, or an integrative project during your studies. Let’s take a closer look at each of these projects. Please note that you must verify with your program for a credited internship.
Internship
Internships give students the opportunity to explore, develop their career, and build new professional skills, while also contributing and bringing new ideas to the organization hosting the internship. This is a time of hands-on training and learning, and a chance to fine-tune your skills relating to your field of study.
Examples of the responsibilities of a BBA intern
Marketing:
- Participate in developing a communication/marketing plan
- Create communication and launch tools for promos
- Develop new marketing strategies
- Help organize and manage events
- Help conduct market studies
Finance:
- Conduct analyses and build investment portfolios
- Advise clients on the best strategies to grow their accumulated capital
- Support and assist in financial model updates and other analyses
- Analyze financial models within different sector groups
Supervised Project
The supervised project is a major project during which you provide in-depth expertise in your field of specialization. You may provide potential solutions related to a company project or issue.
Keep in mind that your project must include an analysis, action, and, if possible, recommendations for the organization’s managers.
Examples of a supervised project mandate:
Business Analytics:
- Optimization of Breaks and Positions in Optimization Models for Scheduling in XYZ Call Centres
- Design and Optimization of XYC Co.’s Logistics Network
- Advanced Workforce Planning
Applied Financial Economics:
- Investment in Information Technologies and Human Capital: The Effects on Productivity
- The Effects of a Monetary Policy Shock on Disaggregated Dynamics
- The Role of XYZ Bank in the Belgian Mergers and Acquisitions Market
- Operational Risk in Retirement Funds
- The Anomaly of Accounting Adjustments in Canada
Integrative project
The integration project demonstrates that you have reached the level of competence required to provide a thorough, rigorous and original analysis of a relevant and complex management topic.
examples of integration projects:
Cultural organization:
- Management of regional festivals in Quebec: local roots and outreach outside the region
- State-of-the-art and future perspectives of collaborative practices in arts organizations targeting the next generation of performing artists
- Philanthropic Management: Challenges and Issues for Parallel Foundations
- Responsible cultural actors: sustainable development as a competitive advantage in the performing arts sector in Montreal
- The transformation of the cultural milieu toward digital technology
- Marketing and Communication Plan for the XYZ
Sustainable development:
- The potential of the cooperative model for the development of malaria in Quebec
- Reflection on the creation of a non-governmental organization: the XYZ case
- Setting up a Fab Lab project with an environmental vocation, textile and clothing sector
- Natural resources: blessing or curse?
- Degrowth is good for your health
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