2. *Contents
Session I Session II
• Process Definition • Roles and Responsibilities
• Internship Video • Etiquettes
• Benefits • What can I expect during Internship
• How to get an internship • How to make most of my internship.
• Objectives of Internship • What do you need to know about internship.
• Types of Internship Program • What does corporates expect from an intern.
• Areas for Specialization • Learning beyond your internship role.
• Basic Interview skills • What makes you an outstanding intern.
• How to address an Interview • Steps in completing an internship program.
• Preparations for Internship • What to include to make my project
• Guidelines for selection attractive.
• Getting an Internship • Guidelines to follow during internship project
• Resource Materials • Guidelines in drafting the project report
• Criteria for selection @ Corporates • Suggestions
• Selecting a good project
• Companies to select for the project.
• Methodology
• Tips for successful internship
• Probable topics for internship
3. * Process Definition of Internship assignment
Limited Duration
– 10 – 40 hrs /
week ( 2 weeks –
6 weeks)
Structured,
Academic Score supervised work
experience
On the Job
SIP Training –
Short Research
Sharpen industry
knowledge
Practical exposure –
Relevant Transformation of
Experience academic knowledge
into skillful usage.
Understanding
corporate
policies and tools
5. *Benefits
Work
Avail facilities Experience
– Library,
Edge in the
Transportatio
Job Market
n, Cafteria,
Entertainment
Mentoring and
coaching by Transition
seasoned into a job
professionals
SIP
Pre-
Understand
placement
ing of
offers for
decision
outstanding
making
interns.
Enable you to Networking
gain Opportuniti
confidence es
Boost
leaning
curve
6. *How to get an Internship
Ingredients of Internship
7. *Objectives of Internship
opportunity to test your aptitude / interest in a particular career before
permanent commitments are made.
Help in developing skills in the application of theory to practical work
situations. Helps in acquiring In-depth knowledge of the formal functional
activities of a participating organization.
opportunity to develop attitudes conducive to effective interpersonal
relationships. opportunity to understand informal organizational
interrelationships.
8. *Objectives of Internship
Helps you to be prepared to enter into full-time employment in their area
of specialization upon graduation.
Helps you to develop employment records/references that will enhance
employment opportunities.
9. * Types of Internship Program
Paid Vs Unpaid
Part time Vs Full time
Work Experience Internship
Research Internship
Virtual Internship
12. * How to address an Interview
Tell me about yourself – Good
Answer VS Bad Answer.
13. * Preparations for Internship Interview
Obtain a request letter from the college / department
Prepare your profile
Apply for Internship
Groom for the interview
Develop your Presentation and Soft skills
Research about the companies you are likely go get selected
Learn about the Industry / Products / Nature of work / Technology
involved
Be clear of the methodology and duration of the project.
Scan your academic certificates which you may have to submit.
14. *Guidelines for selecting a topic
Choose a Subject which is
easy to understand.
Easy to collate data and
easy to analyze.
Easy to understand the
process.
Write an effective project
report.
God gave you a mind to think with & a heart to love with, marry them together &
make a difference in this world.
15. *How to prepare an Resume
Start your Resume Strong
Personal Details / Background Education and Address
Target your resume
What is your objective for seeking an
Certifications
Internship
Use concise language in your resume
Avoid jargons Grammar
Proof Read your resume
Grammatical Error Formatting / Alignment
16. *How to prepare an Resume
Maintain your honesty and integrity
Scholastic performances Don’t Lie
Highlight your Personal and Professional Goals and Objectives
What do you want to achieve from this
What is your Vision
internship
Quantify your Success & Achievements
Indicate your abilities Highlight Achievements in your college life
Conclusion
References Disclaimer with Date
19. *Criteria for Selection @ Corporates
Active Student Flexible & Punctual
Participation about project timings.
Minimum Credit rating Track record of
according to company Achievement in
norms extracurricular activities
Excellent Oral and
Leadership & Team work
Written Communication
skills
Skills
Out of box thinker
20. * Selection of Internship Program
Duration Suitable Topic
Development
Project Guide
Training
Implementation
21. * Companies to select for Internship Program
Knowledge
Labor Intensive Process Oriented
Oriented
• Manufacturing • Education • Information
• Healthcare • Not for Profit Technology
• FMCG Organizations • IT enabled
• Retail • Consulting Services
• ITES organizations • Media &
• Banking & Entertainment
• Engineering
Insurance • Training
• Infrastructure
• KPO, LPO, • Staffing
Medical • Hospitality
transcription • Advertising
• Tourism
22. * Methodology in completing the project
Design the Project
Define the Project
Analysis – Hypothesis
Satisfaction survey
Suggest global
trends
Improvements in
the current scenario
23. * Tips for successful internship
Plan and Prepare – Prepare a broad framework how you would
like to complete the project and what assistance you require to
complete them within the targeted time line.
Orient your selves on the products and services of the
organization so that you are well acquainted before you
start working on the project.
Supervise – Request for a supervisor with whose assistance
you can complete the project.
Include and Enrich – Seek more assistance in terms of
participating in the meeting and participating in the
presentations so that you gain product and process knowledge.
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
24. *
Challenge and Use – You can assist your project guide / the team
in basic activities which you are familiar so that you can break
the ice and extract more information and help on your project.
Mentor – Request for mentorship during your project from
your project guide or any one who has been assigned with
the task in lieu of your project guide. It helps you to
connect and network with the concerned.
Feedback – Seek feedback from your corporate guide from time
to time to understand if you are proceeding in the right path.
25. * Tips for successful internship
Follow-up : Keep in touch with your Project guide and Academic guide for any
help / assistance that you may need during the course of internship
Support – On completion of the project, you can insist on a reference
letter from the project guide which lists the strengths and
accomplishments as an intern. Discuss with your project guide about the
job search strategies that might help him or her break into your field.
Have Fun – Enjoy interacting with your colleagues and imbibe the corporate
culture which will help you to absorb them when you get into the corporate job.
It's not about having the skill to do something. It's about having the will, desire &
commitment to be your best. -Robert Hernandez
26. * Probable Topics
Recruitment / Staffing
• Hiring best practices in the industry and its implications
• Employment scenario and Human Resource strategies
• Best practices to handle Talent Management and curb
attrition
• Usage of Assessment tools and effective hiring patterns
• Effectiveness of e-Recruitment Vs offline recruitment
activities
• Building effective recruitment tool kit for recruiters
• Impact of contract staffing vs permanent staffing
• Building high resilient staffing culture
27. *Probable Topics
Best C&B Practice and its impact on the present economic conditions
Efficient Compensation structure in reducing the tax burden
Performance Management and its impact on C&B structure
Trends in global compensation structure and its impact.
Challenges in handling diversified compensation structure
28. *Probable Topics
Organizational Development
OD interventions in building Organizational Culture
Change Management and communications
Emerging trends in Organizational Development
Managing Organizational Design and Culture Change
Organizational Development in harnessing business alliances
Facilitating Change Management using OD Interventions
Enhancing employee engagement thru Competency Mapping
29. *Probable Topics
Employee Engagement
Enhancing Employee Engagement
Employee Engagement in the public Sector
Role of Engaging the Leadership Team
Employee Engagement Vs Employee Attrition
Engaging employees in 360 degree feedback
Enhancing quality of employee engagement thru Work Life Balance
30. *Probable Topics
Learning & Development
Training Need Analysis and its effectiveness
Effective Leadership Development in Organizations
Effectiveness of e-Learning and enhancement in productivity
Impact of On the Job Training and increase in efficiency
Learning and Development in global scenario
33. *Roles & Responsibilities
Apply for internship
Conduct in Professional Manner
Adhere to the companies policies about internship
Follow regular attendance
Take care of the assets and properties given to you
Ensure that you do not deviate from the internship
policies
Maintain the project log book and record each
activity
34. *Roles & Responsibilities
Convert all the project hard record to soft records.
Always take approval from your corporate guide before
handling any task.
Keep your academic guide and the corporate guide in the
same loop.
Always conduct meetings after consulting your corporate
guide
Always conduct the relevant research and share the data
with the corporate guide before publishing it
On Completion of the project, print 2 copies of the
project which is legible for reference.
Obtain necessary completion letter from the corporate
guide and have it affixed in the project report.
35. *Etiquettes
Follow the chain of Respect the support
Respect confidentiality
command staff
• It is important for you • You can talk about • They have been there
to know the formal issues, projects, and longer than you, and
and informal reporting the work environment, they know more than
structures within your but refrain from you. They can be
organization. Once you talking about people. terrific allies in
understand them, Gossip can get back to helping you break in,
follow them! The people and wind up helping you understand
unspoken rule is this: hurting you. Don't be the unspoken rules,
do not go around, hurt if you are left out and helping you
behind or over anyone. of certain discussions - accomplish your goals
Follow the chain of some issues are for if you treat them with
command in all your staff ears and eyes the respect they are
communications and only. Finally, don't take due. Wipe the thought
actions. That means go sides; steer clear of "just a secretary" out
to your site supervisor interoffice politics. of your mind.
first. Remember that you Remember this:
are there to work on without support staff,
your project. the organization would
not run.
36. *Etiquettes
Attendance and Learn to make a positive
Learn basic social skills
promptness are expected first impression
•How you handle hellos, •Tardiness and absenteeism •Practice until you acquire a
good-byes, and basic signal a disrespect for firm handshake. Learn how
courtesies of speech and others' time, a lack of to make introductions and
action can win friends or interest in the work. how to introduce yourself
turn people off. For Promptness signals to those you don't know. Be
example, don't sit down in eagerness, responsibility, friendly, smile and extend
someone's office until you respect for others. At the yourself. These are all
are invited to do so. Keep beginning of the day and at parts of those important
your feet off the furniture. all your meetings, be on first impressions which
Hats off inside! Don't chew time or five minutes early. really can earn you points.
gum. In the dining hall, you As for being absent from Picture this: the Executive
can get away with reaching work, serious illness or Director of your
across someone for the salt family emergencies are the organization is coming
or pushing your plate out of only reasons which may down the hall toward you.
the way when you are justify absence. It is You are alone. She is a
through. In the work world, important to call valuable person to know.
you lose points. immediately and speak Are you ready to introduce
directly with your site yourself?
supervisor if you have a
problem which will keep
you from your internship.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until
brought to a focus. - Alexander Graham Bell
37. *Etiquettes
Dress the part Lose the lingo Be a good ambassador
•Yes, this is important! When •"Hey, cool!" might be a •Be cognizant that you
you walk in the door of your natural expression of reflect the institution. How
internship site, even if it is affirmation on campus. In you perform and behave in
on campus, you are no your internship, it will tell your internship will affect
longer a student. We people that you are not yet the future of other interns.
repeat: you are no longer a professional material.
student. Appropriate attire Listen to the language of •Think about the long-term
is different for every those around you, listen to benefits of good internship
organization. Look around your own language, and etiquette. Many of you will
you. What are others speak as a professional. ask your site supervisors for
wearing? What about their job recommendations or
hair styles? What kind of contacts. Some of you will
accessories are the norm, apply for full-time or
including earrings for men? summer jobs at your
Model your dress and internship site. Have you
grooming after that of your proven that you can make it
supervisor and other in that type of
professional staff, and you environment? Have you
cannot go wrong. earned a positive
recommendation? What you
do today can stick with you
for a long time. Make it
count!
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation." -
Jim Rohn
38.
39. *What can I expect during Internship
Surprises
Astonishing Waiting
Facts Period
Expectations
Amazing Disappoint
Moments
ments
40. * How to make most of your internship
Show enthusiasm in handling the
First Impression is the best Overcome the challenges you
task, so that you can learn from
impression – Internship Interview come across during Internship.
it .
Focus on the project and do not
Pay attention to the office Gain trust from your corporate share the project details with
culture. Be punctual and guide and his team that you can any one unless permitted by
honest. assist them your corporate guide.
Communicate what is required.
Consider the project assigned to
Please ask for feedback once Observe your colleagues / team
you seriously and analyze how to
after you complete the specified members and imbibe their style
successfully complete with all
steps of your project. of working.
the necessary details.
Do not over dress yourself,
Greet people you come across
follow the dress code and
and acknowledge their help.
mannerism in the office.
41. * What you need to know about internship
Orientation to the internship
• The organization ( Mission, Overview of the organization,
department, your role etc.)
• The office ( Co-workers and their roles, dress code, attendance,
workstation etc.)
• Operations ( Communications, computer usage policy, meetings,
key employment policy etc.)
• Your specific role ( daily task, projects, timeline, skills needed,
training provided, ways to access information etc.)
• Functioning ( Supervision, Feedback, problem resolution,
boundaries etc.)
42. * Expectation from an Intern.
Conduct yourselves in a professional manner
Be Punctual, honest, ethical, high integrity.
Dress Appropriately. Follow Dress Code.
Display the identity cards
Follow the attendance policy.
Express positive attitude to learn things.
43. * Expectation from an Intern.
Take initiative. Tackle new challenges and learning opportunities. Do
not over commit.
Ask for assistance from your project guide / academic guide. Keep them
informed about your project progress.
Meet the project deadlines. If unachievable, discuss with your project
guide immediately.
Respect your co-workers and employees in the organization
Be Cooperative, flexible and accommodative of the changes.
Be attentive and be a keen listener and observer.
Discuss the problems and address it quickly. Do not hesitate to contact
your project guide to share the information.
44. * Learning beyond your Internship role
Leadership Styles
Organizational Structure & Organizational Behavior
of Co-workers
Work culture - ( Do not participate in politics
Professional and Personal ethics to conduct
Formal and informal communication.
Managing deadlines, work performance , stress and
conflicts
Organizational policies, templates, procedures,
measurement.
45.
46. * What makes you an outstanding Intern.
Communication Skills – Written / Verbal
Positive Attitude – Willingness, Perseverance, Enthusiasm
Specialization – Clear Focus, Strong Interest, Research Methodology
Autonomy – Less supervision, Independent, Analysis
Interpersonal Skills / Team work – Influence, Respond, Network
Technical Knowledge – Statistical Analysis, Research oriented
Work Ethics – Responsible, Reliable , Dependable
Continuous Learning – Quick learner, Understands the feedback
Business Savvy – Understand Constraints, Practical application
47. * What makes you an outstanding Intern.
Flexibility – Open Minded, Flexible, Accepts and applies changes
Quality – High Quality Work, timely completion , Attention 2 detail.
Organized – Project Management Skills , Multi-tasking
Problem Solving / Creative – Analytical , Logical Thinking
Professionalism – Maturity, Diplomatic, Cleanliness
Experienced – External Consulting, Judgement
Intelligent – Emotional Intelligence, Smart
Generate Ideas – Outstanding, Process Improvement
Customer Focus – Alternative suggestion, Deep thinking
48. * Steps in completing an internship program
Research &
Discover
Summarize
&
Internship Plan &
Feedback Program Design
Evaluate
& Network
49. * What to include to make my project
effective
Define the Project and
its Scope
Effective Business case
studies
Identify the survey
style and define
metrics
Include quotes,
process definition, case
studies, industry best
practices where ever it
is required.
Research & Develop
the subject with your
recommendations
Summarize the findings
of your project and
document it.
Before submission,
explain and obtain
permission to submit
the thesis.
50. * Guidelines to follow during internship
project
• Be Punctual
Attenda • Keep your kit updated always
nce
• Keep a pad handy during all your meetings.
Stationa • Equip with multiple color ink pen so that your notes are made and highlighted
ries
• Greet every one you come across
Meeting • Be specific and question them to the point
• Report to the designated project guide of all the developments you come across during the
project.
Supervis
ion • Maintain confidentiality and avoid breach of Non Disclosure Agreement if signed.
• Research and conduct offline / online surveys with the target audience.
Method • Document the findings and submit it for review
ology
• Acknowledge all the resources contributed for the success of the project.
Submiss • Analyze and share your experiences with the project team about the internship and its learning's
ion • Share the project report to the library for future references
"There is no substitute for hard work." - Thomas Edison
51. * Guidelines to Drafting the Project report
Brief description of the Industry - Briefly describe the background of the industry and
organization you were associated with during the internship. Include the short-run and long-
run outlook for this type of organization and the possibilities of future positions for college
graduates with this organization and other organizations in the same field.
Briefly describe the major areas for which you were responsible during your internship.
Review the detailed list of objectives if it has been achieved as per Project
guidelines. Examine and discuss how each objective was or was not met. This review should
be extensive and represent at least 50 percent of the project.
Relate your internship experience to your program outcomes. You only need to write about
those program outcomes that you actually accomplished during your internship. - Use
Graphical representations / Charts about the findings
52. * Guidelines to Drafting the Project report
Feedback that you have received during your survey
Document the project report with clear indications of the findings in the
project. Use the questionnaire sample for description
Please ask your friends to review the writings if you have completed the
project as a team.
Please run the project report through the corporate guide and academic
guide for clearance for printing
Ensure your project report contains industry printing standards and fonts.
It should be legible.
53. * Guidelines to Drafting the Project report
Ensure that you have acknowledged all the concerned responsible for
successful project completion.
List down the resource references / share credit in the project report
Print the project report with legible fonts as per industry standards ( Calibre)
and get it bounded for submission
Submit 2 copies 1 – Corporate Guide and 2 – College library for future
reference.
Understand each and every portion of your project and explain thoroughly
the significance of the project to the interview panel for your credit
54. * Suggestions
Suggestions
Be Calm and Composed
Be Punctual
Do not Hurry in completing your project
Be Flexible and accommodative
Be Open to take up any specialization
Do Home work about the company – First
Impression is the best impression
Keep your Project Guide and Academic Guide
informed
