Internship opportunities at Poornima University

The ultimate goal of higher education at large is to modestly train students to achieve success in their future careers. While facing a certain level of academic rigour and learning important life skills can be crucial aspects of career preparedness that students must calculate while in college, more and more importance is being placed on the underlining value of experiential learning. That’s where things like job shadowing, internship opportunities, and even some of the full-time or part-time jobs can be crucial. At Poornima University, this type of learning requires students to participate in one or another sort of internship experience. Others might give students further options to either pursue internship opportunities or garner equal credit in some other ways. It’s also true that some internships may offer monetary compensation. While all of these variables are present, the faculty thoroughly helps the students apply for an internship of their interest.

Summer Internship

Students at Poornima place themselves in summer internships with the objective of learning technologies pertaining to their discipline and enhancing their technical knowledge with the support of a live platform. Engineering students pursue their 4-6 week internships at various organizations, keeping in view their skill sets and the emerging industrial requirements. The learning objectives of the summer internships, induced in Poornimaites, are:

· Practical Application of Classroom Theory

· Skill enhancement

· Hands-on Practice

· Personality Development

· Exposure to a real working environment

· Confidence building

Every student ensures the mapping of their learning objectives with their summer internship log book.

Internships offered by some of the companies are:

Global Internships

Internships have always been treated as an important tool for college graduates and students to gain necessary work insight and experience on a career path. But it has only been a short while that global international internships and overseas working experiences have become increasingly popular. In particular, over the past few years, due to the rapidly growing global work environment in various careers and companies, interning abroad has caught the attention of educators, students and companies as a vital career tool. AIESEC is an international platform established in 1948 for young people to develop and explore their leadership potential.

Internships and training

Summer training, compulsory internships, full-term optional, 'on-the-job’ internships, skill enhancement events, workshops, and study tours are extensively integrated into the curriculum. These internships encourage students to apply their learned pragmatic knowledge from their training in real-life situations and expose them to a real work environment. On-site experience has been beneficial for students through industry internships and training at corporate giants like JCB, TCS, Tata Motors, JBM and Infosys, to name a few.

Winter Break Internship

A winter internship will help you to utilise your time productively instead of just crashing at your friend’s place and wasting your time. Interning at a reputed company will build new skills, provide networking opportunities, and act as an introduction to what it will be like when you take up a job in a particular field. If you demonstrate your ability, the company may even hire you after you graduate. If not, at least you will learn something, so it is still a win-win situation for you.

Below is a list of a few benefits of the winter break internship:

· On-the-ground training: You will get a glimpse of what your job and routine would be like.

· Networking opportunities: An internship allows you to expand your network and connect with colleagues as well as mentors.

· Additional work experience: If you are going to graduate next year, then a winter internship is the best thing that you can do during your break because it will add to your work experience on your resume.

· Explore the career path: Exploring is an important part of your college life, and an internship is a great way for you to explore your career path.

About the Author:

Abhijeet Singh is pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science from AIET Jaipur. He delves into various field and believes to be a jack of all trades.

Note: The views expressed in this article are solely author’s own and do not reflect/represent those of Shiksha.