If you are in a region or country where internships are not common, it may be very difficult to find an internship. In addition, there may be very few jobs available that match your major for entry-level people. In the above case it is essential that as you prepare to graduate, you gain experience relevant to your major so you can be competitive for available jobs. If your internet or computer equipment is limited, or the internet reliability and strength are not enough to virtually work on a project team with other students or for a remote job, then you will need to find a local opportunity to gain internship experience. This will likely mean that you would need to do work related to your program of study with a local government, community leader, charitable organization, entrepreneurial endeavor, or small business that can not pay for these services. In other words, you would be volunteering your services to obtain experience that might make it easier for you to get a job in the future.

In volunteering to gain experience, it is always better to have a defined project you are working on so that you will be able to report the impact and value of the work that you did in your resume and interviews. It will be important to agree with your sponsor at the local organization about what you will provide to them and the value that it will create for them. You will use this information in creating bullet points for your resume. So you will want to follow as closely as possible the process described in the Engagement letter chapter to create a well-defined project for your internship. 

If the local sponsor will not provide you with any direction, expectations, or value/impact of your work, then you will want to take the same measures as are recommended above for the Work-Experience internship. The directions are repeated as follows: 

If you can not get an employer to set expectations and plan for reporting progress on those expectations, you will have to learn to hold yourself accountable because you are not getting help from your employer. If you hold yourself accountable you can establish your own expectations or project for improvement and follow the steps in the textbook to increase your chance for success in your internship or job.

The instructions will often refer to a team/co-workers. This designation is intended to cover project teams, individual interns, and any co-workers who are involved in your project or internship responsibilities. The vast majority of the process in the textbook will be relevant to all three types of internships.