MPI700 Postgraduate Internship

Application Procedures

Steps to finding an internship placement and getting started

  1. Please read the online introduction information thoroughly
  2. Check on StudentConnect and the Deakin online handbook to ensure you have progressed sufficiently to achieve the academic requirement and that the MPI700 Postgraduate Internship unit is available under your course.
  3. Identify suitable opportunities and start contacting prospective business hosts. You will need to find and negotiate your own internship placement. Please print out an introduction letter [144KB PDF] to assist introducing yourself to a potential host company
    Please note some business hosts may consider Police Check necessary before providing internship placement.
  4. Submit your MPI700 application at the Postgraduate Centre in building LB of Burwood campus or post it to:
    Postgraduate Internship Applications
    Postgraduate Centre
    Faculty of Business and Law
    Deakin University
    221 Burwood Highway
    Burwood VIC 3125
    The "Study Plan", the "Proposed Business Host details" and the "Business Host Health and Safety Statement" sections must be completed when the application is submitted. Download an application form [220KB PDF]
  5. You are required to enrol in an alternative unit on StudentConnect in case your search for a placement is unsuccessful and if your application is not approved.
  6. When your application is assessed, you will be notified by your Deakin email. If your application has been approved, you will receive an email notifying you of the outcome and advising you of instructions to change your enrolment via Studentconnect.
  7. Once enrolled you can confirm with the host company and start your internship.

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5th September 2011