INTERNSHIP REDEFINED: NOW IT GOES UNDERWAY FOR STUDENTS AT THE AGE GROUP 13- 21 YEARS

In a first, the internship is now also at a school level. A new initiative by a famous city IT Company indeed breaks into an uncharted path seeking new outcomes which would impact the quality of manpower in the country in the times to come. Whereas, the conventional internship normally begins around the end phase of a college education with a view to give student, an exposure to the industry, the school internship goes side by side of conventional classroom education. It aims at providing an opportunity to students at an early age to identify their strengths, innate expertise and passion and provide freedom to pursue their core talent, an ultimate deliverable. The hands-on experience of working on live projects provides them the much needed belief in their abilities. There is one strong view that the school internship is a needless diverter of students focus and goes against the very grains of learning of basic education, essentially needed to build fundamentals and for application to honing special skills and for innovate. However, in a technology driven and ever evolving era of continuous teaching- learning, side by side, skill development process adopted by the school internship is bound to prove an academic clincher, a powerful enabler.

Industry in India, for want of skills is struggling to meet the global business competitiveness in quality and innovation. When a graduate  engineer joins a company, he/she is woefully short on desired expertize in the application of his knowledge and companies takes a lot of time in training the resource. The school internship which goes side-by-side will fill up the much needed gap. The initiative by a Gurgaon based IT Company appears quite visionary and delivers squarely on people’s choices and needs. It incubates skilled manpower for the industry.

“School Internship seeks to invite students to take some time out of their regular studies which may well be during the school off hours, on Sundays and holidays. We request parents to support their wards discover, untapped potential and excel”, says the Director of City Innovates Ms Sneh Jhamb.

The unique feature of the internship program is an option extended to the students to earn while they learn. This provides students necessary financial support to subsequently pursue higher studies and other expenses. Selected students are given live projects and rewarded. Furthermore, a student capable of working independently may seek projects through various bidding sites and earn while working from home. The Company is ever willing to absorb a good student as an employee on regular roll, if considered fit for a job.

IT Sector contributes about 6% of India’s total GDP, providing employment directly or indirectly to over 2 million people is a pointer to the direction that IT skills shall continue to dominate the service industry. E-retail brands like Flipkart, Amazon, Snapdeal are making headlines turning the attention of the youth to grab the opportunity in the emerging fields, sooner than later. It is time to adapt school internships to ‘catch them young’

                                                                                By JR Sharma, a columnist and CIO City Innovates

Summer Internship - A Way to Grow your Career

In the present market rundown, there is a lot of competition in the IT sector but getting a job for fresher is really tough. With thousands of students passing out every year and recession in the market, it really has become one of the toughest jobs for students to get employed. To survive in the corporate world it has become one of the necessities to get training. Training for Btech students has become compulsion according to universities. Moreover the companies demand those students who are technically strong but being at college and getting only the theoretical knowledge cannot make a student technically strong. Thus getting training has become a need for every student.

Summer Internship

Summer training programs proves to be best for all the students who are confronting the problem of not getting the job. During internship, a student gets a practical knowledge of whatever one has learnt during college days. Training for Btech student is compulsory because they get time to understand and learn the technologies at broader scale. While doing internship, the students work on live projects which further help them get a deep and thorough knowledge of technologies. In regard with technologies, one always gets updated. During summer internship the engineering students get an ample time to interact with trainers who help them find answers for various queries. 

Some of the internship offering companies also provides a benefit of getting placed if they find you good at your work. Getting internship overall is a good idea but from where to get your internship is a crucial question. There are many companies which offer industrial internship either paid or for free as per your capability but amongst all the companies you can City Innovates as the best company. Also it has started one of the programs CIIP via which one can easily get internship; the only thing is that you have to attain a good score in their exam. Thus if you are finding a summer internship company go for CIIP test.