Internship Updates!

Hi everyone! I am here with some exciting updates! As you know we update our academy programs every once in a while to better meet the needs of our trainees/interns. We have been listening to the feedback from our interns in regards to the internship program. We have decided to update some of the requirements to make the internship more well-rounded and easier to complete. You can submit feedback about the academy and its programs here.

Community Track Internship changes:
○ You can enroll for 6-12 weeks (recently the minimum was 8 weeks, now 6).
○ Weekly hours of listening changed to 4 a week.
○ Community track electives changed to any 7 from the existing 5.
○ Referral click requirements replaced with the community building course (community builder badge)

Student track requirements change as the following:
We are adopting an elective system. Referral clicks removed.

Mandatory requirements
○ Complete 5 listening hours per week
○ Completed 20 training guides
○ Peer Pro badge (complete all 12 peer trainings to receive it)
○ Earned the ‘Verified Listener’ badge

Must complete 10 electives
Electives
○ Earned 'Tiny Chat' badge (by sending 500+ messages in listener chatrooms)
○ Earned 'Sparkler' badge (by sending 500+ messages in group support chatrooms)
○ Earned ‘Shining Light’ (be sending 5000+ messages in member group chat rooms)
○ Earned the ‘Talker Badge’ (for making 100+ forum posts, can be a reply to forum posts too)
○ +10 Training Guides (In addition to the compulsory 20)
○ Referred at least 40 people to 7 Cups (earned 40+ referral clicks)
○ Completed at least 5 offline outreach initiatives (available only if your place is not under lockdown for your own safety)
○ Complete the community building course (have the community builder badge for the course)
○ Growth path level 100 or above
○ 25 forum posts (can be a reply to a forum post or an individual post). This needs to be done after being accepted to the internship
○ Have a group-based leadership role (sharing circle host, discussion leader, support session leader, support room mentor, etc)
○ Have a forum based leadership role (forum supporter, forum mentor, community mentor, Sub-com Project Agent, etc)
○ Graduated from another academy program
○ Added two hours of listening each week (on top of the minimum 5)
○ 100+ Listener Reviews


Highlights
○ Removed referral clicks as a mandatory requirement. They are available as electives which you can opt-out of by choosing something else.
○ Reduced listening hours and replaced that with more electives (you can choose from a wide range and most of these can be done before even joining the program)
○ Internship community track minimum reduced to 6 weeks.


These changes will be implemented from Aug 2, 2021. They do not apply to current interns.

Attention Existing Interns!
The current Interns have expressed difficulty in getting referral clicks. To make things easier for them. The student track interns can do any 3 electives (From the mentioned above) to replace referral click requirements, while the community track interns can pick 2 electives from the same list above in addition to the 5 electives they are currently doing.

Please Note:
If you choose elective to make up for the referral clicks. You can not choose the same for your track electives. In short, you can't get double credit for a single elective. If you are using one for the referral click replacement then you must choose a different one for the elective program requirements.

Apply to be an intern here!