Find an internship that fits, then turn it into evidence you can use
A two-part system for students and early-career researchers: a scored target list and tracked search, then learning goals, a weekly log, a portfolio and a clean finish.
- Internship Command Centre workbook: 11 sheets, from target list and application tracker to story bank, learning goals, weekly log, portfolio and a traffic-light dashboard with 3 charts
- Offer Comparison and Budget Calculator: what each offer really leaves you with after rent, travel and food, plus a weighted learning score
- 5 fillable PDFs and 5 Word templates: tailoring worksheet, interview and assessment centre prep, offer checklist, goals agreement, reviews, CV and letter, 40 messages
- A 9,400-word guide with 23 figures following one student, Sipho, from sixteen applications to his final review
The Internship and Placement Kit · Bodhih Pro Kits · 302 by Bodhih Training, trainers to 2,000+ companies since 2008.
How do I find an internship and make the most of it?
Score 15 to 25 target organisations on learning, fit, practicality, pay and future route, then send two tailored applications a week and track each one. Prepare true STAR stories, check every offer in writing, agree measurable learning goals with your manager, and log each week. The Internship and Placement Kit from Bodhih Training gives you the workbook, forms and templates for every step.
Want the full free guide first? Read How to get an internship: a step-by-step plan for students.
You already feel the problem. Here is what it is costing you.
Applying everywhere, hearing nothing
The same CV and letter sent to every advert, with no record of what went where. Rejections arrive and you cannot tell what to change.
Tests and assessment centres you did not see coming
Timed tests, group exercises and presentations check different things from interviews. Without practice and stories, good candidates fall at stages they could have passed.
An offer you said yes to too fast
Unclear dates, unpaid work you cannot afford, or a visa condition you did not check. The offer stage is when you have most influence, and it passes quickly.
Two quiet weeks and no idea what you are meant to learn
Without agreed goals, interns get whatever work is lying around. Managers cannot tell if it is going well, and neither can you.
A report and portfolio with nothing to show
Weeks blur together, the best work has no notes, and you are not sure what you are allowed to share. The evidence was there; nobody captured it.
Picture the next few weeks with the kit open beside you.
Imagine a Friday afternoon during your search. You open one dashboard and see, in seconds, how many applications you sent this week, which ones need a polite follow-up, and whether tailored applications are getting further than generic ones. You know what to change on Monday, because the numbers tell you.
As you add tonight's application to the tracker, notice how small the step is: one row, the same day. That row is what lets you answer a recruiter's call calmly, and it is what turns rejection emails into lessons rather than noise.
When the offer arrives, you will already have the checklist open: dates, hours, pay, manager, right to work, the true weekly cost. In your first week you will ask two good questions a day and walk into a goals meeting with a draft. Every Friday, fifteen minutes of logging builds the report and portfolio you will need later.
Whether you start with your target list tonight or the CV template tomorrow morning, the first hour is mapped for you, step by step, and every step names the file and the first thing to type.
20 files that do the work for you
The e-book shows you how. The tools make it happen. Here is exactly what you download.
The Internship and Placement Kit (e-book, PDF)
The guide: methods, worked examples, scripts and exercises
Start here: your internship map
Your first hour, your first week, every stage with the file to open, a 30/60/90-day search plan, placement milestones and how to brand the templates in five minutes.
Internship Command Centre workbook
Settings-driven master workbook: target list with fit scores, application tracker with follow-up flags, STAR story bank, learning goals, weekly log, project portfolio, feedback, contacts and a dashboard with traffic lights and three charts.
Offer Comparison and Budget Calculator
Compares offers on what they really leave you with after rent, travel, food and one-off costs, scores them on learning, mentor, project, future route, money and practical fit, checks the gap against your savings and plans a weekly budget.
Application tailoring worksheet
Two-page fillable worksheet that decodes an advert into requirements, matches each one to your own evidence, plans the CV changes and the cover letter, and runs an integrity check before you send.
Interview and assessment centre prep
Three-page fillable prep sheet: research, your two-minute introduction, STAR stories mapped to likely questions, questions to ask, assessment centre exercise plan, day-of logistics and a five-minute debrief.
Offer checklist and decision form
Two-page fillable form to check an offer in writing (role, dates, pay, hours, location, supervision, right to work, credit), compare it with your other options and record your decision and reply.
First-week plan and learning goals agreement
Three-page fillable form: a day-by-day first-week plan, the questions to ask, and a one-page learning goals agreement to complete with your manager (goals, evidence, support, check-ins, review dates).
Midpoint review, final review and return-offer prep
Three-page fillable form: a self-review against your goals, notes from the midpoint and final reviews, and a plan for the return-offer and referee conversation, with the exact questions to ask.
Student CV and cover letter templates
Brand-ready student CV skeleton, a CV bullet builder, a three-paragraph cover letter template and a speculative application email, with notes on how conventions differ by country.
Internship message library
40 emails and messages with exact words, from speculative applications and follow-ups to offers, first weeks, reviews, portfolio clearance, the route back and hard moments.
Learning agreement, placement report and portfolio templates
A one-page learning agreement to adopt with your manager, a placement report template with a section-by-section word split, a portfolio case page, weekly reflection prompts and a handover note.
Worked example pack: Sipho's internship from search to final review
The kit's main forms and sheets completed for one composite student, from target list and sixteen applications to offer decision, goals, weekly log, midpoint and final reviews, with numbers matching the workbooks.
AI prompt pack for internship search and placement
30 tool-agnostic prompts that make an assistant question and check your thinking, never write your applications or report, grouped by stage, each with what to paste in and what to check, plus rules and a use log.
Numbers that matter
The 14 numbers the Internship Command Centre and calculator work out: plain-words definition, exact formula, where it lives and what to do if it moves.
Decision card and mistakes to avoid
14 if-then decisions for the moments internship searches and placements go wrong, plus 13 common mistakes and what to do instead.
Internship rules by country: correct at November 2026
Dated reference: unpaid internship and minimum wage guidance for the US and UK, India's AICTE internship policy, pointers for Australia and South Africa, and study visa work principles for the UK, US and Canada, with where to check.
Desk cards and log pages (print pack)
Five printable pages: a first-week desk checklist, STAR story cards and an interview-day card, a weekly log page for your notebook, ask-well and review cards, and a ten-week placement wall timeline.
Internship search and placement calendar plan
A 12-week search rhythm (two applications and a Friday review every week, with milestones) followed by a 10-week placement plan (weekly log, goals, midpoint, clearance, route-back question, final review) and follow-ups. Starts Monday 1 March 2027; shift events to your own dates.
Internship task board (import file)
41 tasks from set-up to keep-in-touch messages, with phase, week, the file to open and a done-when test, ready for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira.
Chapter by chapter
Each chapter opens with a real situation, gives you a method and ends with something to do today, using the tools in your kit.
- Format
- PDF e-book + XLSX + fillable PDF + DOCX + printable PDF + ICS + CSV
- Files
- 20 files plus a one-click ZIP
- E-book
- 67 pages
- Works with
- Excel, Google Sheets, LibreOffice, Word, Google Docs, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner
- Best for
- Summer internships, vacation work, placement years, co-ops and research or industry placements
An internship is a project with two halves
Why an internship is two projects, the ten stages, how the tools fit together and the one rule that does not bend.
What an internship is for, and building your target list
What an internship is for, the five fit questions, weighted fit scores and where to find 15 to 25 targets.
The application tracker and a weekly search rhythm
One row per application the same day, a two-a-week rhythm, follow-up flags and what your interview rate tells you.
A student CV and cover letter that fit the role
Decoding an advert, matching requirements to real evidence, CV bullets with results and a three-paragraph letter in your own words.
Tests, interviews and assessment centres
What online tests, interviews and assessment centres check, a STAR story bank and a two-minute introduction.
Offers: check, compare and accept in writing
Checking an offer in writing, right to work and fairness, the true cost of each offer and replying well.
Before day one and your first week
What to prepare before day one, a plan for each day of the first week and how to ask questions well.
Learning goals with your manager
Turning vague hopes into three to six goals with evidence and target weeks, mixed across doing, people and formal learning.
The weekly log, feedback and the midpoint review
A fifteen-minute Friday log, collecting and acting on feedback, the midpoint review and what to do when things go wrong.
Your project portfolio and placement report
Building a portfolio with written permission, redacting by default and writing the placement report from your evidence.
The final review, the route back and what comes next
The final review, the route-back question asked once, handover, thank-yous and turning the internship into evidence.
Sipho's ten weeks, in numbers
Sipho's dashboard on his last day, what the ambers mean and three habits to keep.
Numbers that matter, in plain words
Plain definitions of the dashboard numbers, with Sipho's values.
Six rules for AI in your internship search and placement
Six rules for using AI in an internship search and placement without breaking university or employer policy.
Not just reading. Tools you will actually open again.
Start here
- Start here: your internship map (first hour, first week, every stage with the file to open, 30/60/90-day search plan, placement milestones, Brand it in five minutes)
Workbooks
- Internship Command Centre workbook: 11 sheets including Settings, Targets, Applications, Story Bank, Learning Goals, Weekly Log, Portfolio, Feedback, Contacts and a Dashboard with 22 metrics, traffic lights and 3 charts
- Offer Comparison and Budget Calculator: 5 sheets (Start here, Inputs, Offers, Scores, Weekly Budget)
Fillable PDF forms
- Application tailoring worksheet (2 pages)
- Interview and assessment centre prep (3 pages, with 15 common questions)
- Offer checklist and decision form (2 pages)
- First-week plan and learning goals agreement (3 pages)
- Midpoint review, final review and return-offer prep (3 pages)
Word templates
- Student CV and cover letter templates
- Internship message library (40 emails and messages)
- Learning agreement, placement report and portfolio templates
- Worked example pack: Sipho's internship from search to final review
- AI prompt pack for internship search and placement (30 prompts, rules and a use log)
Cheat sheets
- Numbers that matter (14 numbers with formulas)
- Decision card and mistakes to avoid (14 if-then decisions, 13 mistakes)
- Internship rules by country, correct at November 2026
Print pack
- Desk cards and log pages (5 pages: first-week checklist, STAR story cards and interview-day card, weekly log page, conversation cards, ten-week wall timeline)
Calendar and import
- Internship search and placement calendar plan (51 events)
- Internship task board import file (41 tasks for Trello, Asana, Notion, Planner or Jira)
E-book
- The Internship and Placement Kit e-book: 10 chapters, 23 figures and Sipho's worked example throughout
When you have worked through it, you will be able to…
Every outcome is practised with a worked example and a tool, not just described.
- You will be able to decide what you want from an internship and score a target list against it
- You will be able to track every application and read whether to send more applications or better ones
- You will be able to tailor a student CV and cover letter to an advert with true, specific evidence
- You will be able to prepare for online tests, interviews and assessment centres with a STAR story bank
- You will be able to check an offer in writing and see what it really costs you before you accept
- You will be able to agree measurable learning goals with your manager in your first weeks
- You will be able to log each week, act on feedback and handle the midpoint and final reviews
- You will be able to build a portfolio with permission and write your placement report from your own evidence
Know your starting point. Prove your progress.
People who measure before and after improve faster and can show it. AssessAll, our sister assessment platform, has AI-graded assessments that pair with this kit. Take one now, work through the kit, then re-take it.
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Make it a growth plan →A taste of Chapter 1
An internship is a fixed period of supervised work, usually while you are studying or just after, that is meant to teach you something you cannot learn in a lecture. Names vary: internship, placement, vacation work, co-op, industrial training, sandwich year, research placement. So do lengths, pay and whether it counts towards your degree. What they share is the trade: you give real work and attention; the organisation gives you experience, supervision and evidence of what you can do. That gives you four honest reasons to want one. To learn how work in your field is really done. To test whether you like it before you commit to it. To collect evidence: projects, feedback and referees you can use in later applications. And to meet people who can tell you how the field works. A possible route to a graduate job is a fifth reason, but it is the one you control least, so do not make it the only one.
The honest comparison
| Free templates and typical advice | This kit | |
|---|---|---|
| Search | A list of job boards | A scored target list with weights you set, from four or more sources |
| Tracking | A blank spreadsheet or nothing | An application tracker with follow-up flags, stage funnel and interview rate |
| Interviews | Lists of questions | A STAR story bank, prep sheet, assessment centre plan and printed story cards |
| Offers | Say yes and hope | An offer checklist, true-cost calculator, weighted score and a dated rules sheet |
| During the internship | Advice to 'be proactive' | A goals agreement, weekly log, feedback tracker, review forms and 40 exact messages |
| Afterwards | A rushed report from memory | A portfolio register with clearance, report template and a route-back conversation card |
Made for you if…
- Undergraduates looking for a summer internship, vacation work or a placement year
- Master's students who need an internship or industry project, often alongside study
- PhD students and early-career researchers planning an industry placement
- International students who need to check work conditions before they accept
- Supervisors and placement tutors who want students to plan, log and report in a shared format
- Student society officers running internship workshops
Probably not for you if…
- Anyone hoping for a guaranteed placement or job: the kit improves your method, and employers still decide
- Anyone who wants applications or a placement report written for them: every word must be your own
- Experienced professionals changing career: a general job search kit will fit better
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Start with the quick-start chapter, then the main spreadsheet or planner. Most buyers use something from the kit the same day.
Make this the week your search becomes a plan
Open the Start-here map, score five targets and log your first application. Whether you begin with the target list tonight or the CV template tomorrow, you will know your next step, and every word you send stays your own.
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The Internship and Placement Kit: FAQs
Read the free guideAlready bought? Resend my linkWill this kit get me an internship?
No kit can promise that: employers decide on their own needs, budgets and timing. The kit gives you a method and tools to search well, prepare properly and make the most of a placement once you have one.
How many internships should I apply for?
There is no right number for everyone. A steady two tailored applications a week to scored targets is often more useful than many rushed ones. Track your interview rate after about ten applications and change the method if it stays low.
Will it write my CV, cover letter or placement report?
No. It gives you templates, a worksheet and prompts that ask you questions and point out gaps. Every word you send or submit must be your own and true, and AI use must follow your university's and employer's policies.
Does it work in my country?
The method works anywhere. The dated sheet names official guidance on unpaid internships and study-visa work for the US, the UK, India and others as at November 2026, with where to check. Laws change and differ, so confirm with the official source and your careers service or international adviser.
Can I use this with my students or society members?
Yes, within your own teaching, supervision or society sessions under the personal licence, for example to run an internship workshop. Each student should use their own copy of the workbook. Department, society and multi-user licences are available from solutions@bodhih.com.
Is an unpaid internship worth it?
It depends on what you will learn, whether you can afford it, and whether it is lawful where you are. The offer calculator shows the true cost; the dated sheet points to the official rules; your careers service can advise on a specific offer.
Do I need Excel?
No. The workbooks open in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice. The forms fill in any form-friendly PDF reader, and the Word templates open in Word or Google Docs.
How can I measure my starting point?
If you want an independent check, the AssessAll assessments Graduate Employability Skills Assessment with a Portable Record, Study Skills & Learning Strategies and Global English Proficiency measure employability skills, study habits and English proficiency. They are optional and separate from the kit.
How do I turn this into a development plan?
Your learning goals already mix doing the work, learning from people and formal learning. Jobulary's explainer on the 70-20-10 model shows how to use that mix as a practical development plan, and where its limits are.
Is the content on pay, visas and rights legal advice?
No. It is educational and helps you ask the right questions. Your university, the official guidance in your country and qualified advisers decide what applies to you.
How much does The Internship and Placement Kit cost?
₹799 including 18% GST for buyers in India, or $24 for buyers outside India. One-time payment, no subscription, with an automatic invoice.
How do I get the files after paying?
Instantly. Your download page opens the moment payment succeeds, and a permanent download link is emailed to you. Download each file separately or everything in one ZIP.
What software do I need?
Any of the usual tools: Excel or Google Sheets for spreadsheets, Word or Google Docs for templates, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Preview, Xodo or GoodNotes for the fillable PDFs, and Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar for the calendar plan.
Can I get a refund?
Because it is a digital download, kits are not refundable once downloaded. We always refund a duplicate charge or a failed delivery, and if a file is corrupted and we cannot fix it within 3 working days. Full terms: bodhih.org/refunds.
Can my company buy this for a team?
Yes. Team and company licences, and workshops on this topic run by Bodhih Training, are available. Write to solutions@bodhih.com or call +91 99000 11601.
