Internships as a Factor in Developing the Company’s Social Potential

Abstract

The article examines the role of internship in the development of the social potential of the company. One of the factors of this development is a two-level system for improving the professional qualities of trainees, each component of which has its specific characteristics. The authors give conceptual definitions and analyze the features of such forms of training young personnel as internship and mentoring. While there are certain common features, these phenomena still have significant differences in moral, administrative, temporal and legal aspects. We used the method of sociological diagnostics to analyze the effectiveness of organizing internships in one of the largest companies in the pharmaceutical market. In the course of the study, we made a grouping, and a hierarchy of varieties of knowledge and skills was built based on the respondents’ self-esteem. The result of the work was the identification of the factors of the weak development of the internship phenomenon in modern Russia with a sufficiently large potential.