Despite pandemic, Internshala sees 31% surge in internships posted in 2020
The report on intern hiring traits finds that the administration discipline noticed the utmost variety of internships with 45% alternatives in profiles like marketing, enterprise growth, gross sales, digital advertising, branding, customer support, market analysis, finance, human assets, and operations. The second hottest discipline was media at 25% providing internships in profiles together with content material writing, journalism, editorial, running a blog, copywriting, social media advertising, PR, images, and videography. Following administration and media was the sector of engineering with 18% internships in fields together with however not restricted to programming, software program growth, Android and iOS app growth, software program testing, CAD design, electrical engineering, IoT, net growth, and recreation growth.
The most variety of internships have been posted in metropolitan cities with 37% internships from Delhi, 18% from Mumbai, 12% from Bengaluru, 7% from Pune, 5% from Hyderabad, adopted by Chennai and Kolkata at 3% every.
“2020 was a difficult year for all of us. Considering the challenges raised by Covid-19, it is extremely heartening to see the 31% rise in internships posted. It is especially encouraging to see how recruiters adapted to the situation as a result of which we saw a steep rise in work-from-home opportunities on the platform,” Sarvesh Agrawal, founder and CEO of Internshala, instructed ET.
According to the report, the typical stipend noticed in 2020 was Rs. 6,500 and the utmost stipend provided was Rs. 98,000. The common stipend noticed a drop of Rs. 500 as in comparison with 2019. The purpose for this drop is consequential to the truth that because of the pandemic, the variety of internships posted on the platform noticed an enormous leap. Work-from-home alternatives historically supply comparatively much less stipend than in-office internships as these contain zero funding in touring or relocating.
Interestingly, out of all of the internships posted in 2020, 60% have been work-from-home alternatives. As in comparison with earlier years (from 2013 to 2019), this was an enormous leap as the utmost proportion of work-from-home internships earlier than this was 25% in the yr 2017.
“A lot of employers who posted in-office requirements conducted their hiring process online and allowed their interns to work from home deferring their joining till the Covid situation improves,” Agrawal added.
