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Summer Placements - The Concept |
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Written by Entrepreneurship Cell
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
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Summer internship helps the management students get a firsthand experience of real time business exposure. It is an essential academic requirement for the first year students of the Post-Graduate Programme (PGP) and the Fellow Programme in Management (FPM). Summer interns chosen by an organization join at the end of the first academic year (April-May-June) and the internship lasts about 8-9 weeks. Internship provides a unique experience for the student in the following ways:
· Gives a chance to apply concepts learnt in the first year to practical scenarios while trying to add as much value as possible to the organization
· Exposure to the working environment of an organization and its functional units
· Helps the student make a more informed decision regarding the career path to choose
By recruiting summer interns, organizations also get a chance to form a unique relationship with the institute. This enables them to gauge the potential of a candidate over a two-month long period.
Companies offer internship for the following reasons:
· Summer interns are skilled workforce that comes armed with fresh thought and unbridled enthusiasm. They are in a unique position to provide an objective and point of view about the organization’s work processes
· Several companies prefer internships over interview-based final recruitment as a more comprehensive method of evaluating potential employees. Trends from previous years indicate that more than a third of the batch are awarded PPOs bearing testimony to the performance of IIMK students during internships and the recruiters’ preference towards rewarding deserving candidates by getting them on-board
· The students also act as effective ambassadors for the organization on campus, spreading awareness about the company in general
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 September 2008 )
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