When it comes to cutting your professional teeth, internships really are the new normal. In fact, 3.5 million professionals on LinkedIn have held internship positions at one point. However, which internships really pave the way for fruitful careers? Here is LinkedIn’s list of the top industries and companies that convert the most internships into full-time positions for professionals.

1. Top Industries and Companies to
Score Full-Time Positions for Interns
1 Accounting 31%
3 Computer Software 24%
5 Internet 22%
25% Management Consulting 2
23% Retail 4
22% Information Technology & Services 6
7 Consumer Goods 21%
19% Oil & Energy 8
Hospital & Health Care 16%
16%
16%
14%
14%
Marketing & Advertising
Banking
Public Relations & Communications
Financial Services
13%Law Practice
Entertainment 13%
Government Administration 13%
12%
12%
12%
12%
Sports
Nonprofit Management
Broadcast Media
Publishing
9
Other Industries’Intern to Full-Time Conversion Ratios
Automotive 17%
16% Telecommunications 10
EY, KPMG US, McGladrey, Plante Moran, PwC
Accenture, Bain & Company, Deloitte, Oliver Wyman, Protiviti
CA Technologies, Intuit, Microsoft, Persistent Systems, Virtusa
Abercrombie & Fitch, Kohl’s Department Stores, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Target
Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com, Yahoo!, Zalando AG
Cerner Corporation, CSC, Dell, Infosys, NetApp
Altria, General Mills, Procter & Gamble, RB, SC Johnson
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Oxy
Chrysler Group LLC, Continental, Cummins Inc., Daimler AG, Faurecia
BlackBerry, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Qualcomm, Turkcell
When it comes to cutting your professional teeth, internships really are the new normal. In fact,
3.5 million professionals on LinkedIn have held internship positions at one point. However, which
internships really pave the way for fruitful careers? Here is LinkedIn’s list of the top industries and
companies that convert the most internships into full-time positions for professionals.
• The top 5 companies in each industry are ordered alphabetically.
• Of the 3.5 million LinkedIn members who have held internships, 600,000 returned to the same
• An intern is defined as someone with the term “intern” in their title.
• A conversion is counted when an intern returns to the same company where they held their internship,
• Education and research institutions were excluded due to the high amount of students who do
More details:
companies as full-time employees.
without the term “intern” in their title.
research or other work on campus.