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Internship Programs
Programs that provide opportunities for advanced students, recent graduates or candidates in a professional field (such as law, medicine or media) to gain practical or clinical experience in their chosen career prior to seeking gainful employment or practicing their profession.
Work Experience
Programs that place people in actual employment situations in order to give them an opportunity to demonstrate their competence and skills, gain practical experience in a field for which they have been trained and/or develop new skills that will be beneficial with respect to future employment opportunities. People are placed on a short-term basis and, if remuneration is involved, are paid by the sponsoring agency rather than by the employer or through a cost-sharing arrangement.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.