Internship placements should provide for educational direction, professional mentoring, qualified agency supervision, and other safeguards that encourage student learning.  For the intern, the process of choosing a placement reflects such considerations as his or her Internship Track and future goals, as well as the location of a site and the type of client population served.  One of the most important factors for a student to consider, however, is the person who will be serving as the agency supervisor.  Based on the personalities of the supervisor and the intern, their specific areas of interest, the qualifications of the supervisor and his/her willingness to give adequate supervision, a student should ask, “Is the person who will be supervising me someone I want to work with and have mentor me?”