How to conclude your internship gracefully?

Your Summer internship is about to conclude soon, and you’re wondering how to do it gracefully. Here are a few things that you should do for your employer, yourself, and others:

There are always a few tasks that are left-over at the end of an internship. If there’s none, that’s amazing. If you do have tasks left, it’s all right if you can’t finish all of them. But you can do your team a favour by documenting all the loose ends so that the next person can pick it up from where you left. They’ll be very grateful to you.

You’ve probably contributed a lot to your team over the Summer. Now it’s essential to document your work. Make sure you write detailed notes in your team’s wiki page (or a more appropriate place). You’ll earn countless blessings from all the people that look at the work after you. You should also set up a meeting(s) to share your learnings and work with your team.

You’ll be working across different companies during your career and you’ll forget the details of the projects you’ve worked on. It’ll be quite helpful 10 years down the line if you document your work in your personal notes. Make sure you are not copying code or intellectual property. Just some text notes on background of the project, what work you did, and what was the impact of your work.

You’ve probably taken up a lot of time of your mentor, manager, and others around. Let these fantastic folks know that they made your internship experience smooth and joyful while learning a lot.

Go ahead and ask your mentor, manager, and other people you’ve worked closely with for a recommendation letter (preferably on LinkedIn). Recommendation letters are a badge of honour for your future career prospects. You might be returning to the company as an intern or a full-time employee. But that might not necessarily be the case. There are a lot of variables that’ll change. So go ahead and ask these fantastic folks for a recommendation letter.

Share contact information and get connected with everyone. Your mentor, manager, people you’ve worked with, other interns you hung out with. These connections will be beneficial for both the parties in the long-term. Preferably share LinkedIn and non-work emails because people switch companies.

You’re going back to school with a treasure trove of learnings about tools, technologies, teamwork, professional life, processes, friendships, connections, and contributions. Find ways you can share about these learnings with your peers. Ask them about their learnings.

You worked and learned from brilliant people in your domain. If you are part of a student organization or know someone at school, ask them if they’d like to bring in a professional for a talk. Then go and talk to your co-workers if they’d like to speak to a group of bright, excited students about their career and give some advice. Most likely they’d be delighted to help out.

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