IEEE Malaysia Section and IEEE Student Branch Universiti Putra Malaysia (IEEESB UPM) successfully organized the IEEE Region 10 Internship & Skills Development at Selangor Human Resource Development Centre (SHRDC) on the May 28th, 2016. The one-day event was participated by 24 IEEE Student/Postgraduate Members coming from 7 Student Branches out of 21 Student Branches registered under IEEE Malaysia Section.
The event was designed to provide opportunities for students to acquire interpersonal skills from industry experts and gain knowledge on the required technical skills needed to work in computer & information technologies or electrical & electronics field. Besides that, it also provides an opportunity for students to get exposure on international internship. The program was designed in three stages, which were data collection from industry and students prior to the event, gap analysis of the collected data and recommendation to the students on the field of work or type of trainings needed. At the end of this event, we aim to match the students with the recommended industry partners for internships.
Several speakers were invited to the event and they were Dr. Susthitha Menon, Chair of Student Activities Malaysia Section; Dr. Abdul Rahim Ahmad, IEEE Malaysia Section Committee; Dr. Norazmi Alias, Senior Vice President of CREST; Hajjah Mahuran Saro, Head of Critical Skill Monitoring Committee of TalentCorp; Dr. Anang Hudaya, Chair of IEEE Young Professionals Malaysia; Mr. Adrian Sie, IEEE PES Malaysia Section Committee, Mr. Anas Hasbullah, ex-intern at Paygate Co Ltd, Seoul, Korea and Ms. Esther Ling, IEEE YP R10/Malaysia. Besides that, there were also online speakers invited through Skype. They were Dr Preeti Bajaj, Subcommittee Lead for Internships & Skills Development for IEEE R10 Adhoc-Committee 2016; Charmain Williams and Parshva Bavishi from IEEE HQ and Dr Archana Shrivastava from GH Raisoni College of Engineering.
In the evening, “Hands-on Session on IEEE ResumeLab and IEEE Collabratec” and “Career Interview Session” for the participants were conducted in a parallel session. This was to provide an opportunity for the participants to write an effective resume and to experience a career interview session. An open discussion between the evaluators and the participants was conducted at the end of the evening session. Some of the feedback given was on English communication skill, how to make resume stand out from the rest and how to ace the interview session. Also, the participants were advised to show their passion and confidence while attending the interview questions.
Feedback forms were distributed during the event. Positive feedbacks were obtained from all the participants where they were satisfied with the organization of the event in terms of food, venue and volunteers. Some improvement were suggested on the time for each talk need to be lengthen as they feel that the information given are very useful and hence need to be elaborated further. The evaluators also think that the interview session should be done in a longer period of time.
IEEE SB UPM would like to thank IEEE Malaysia Section, IEEE Region 10 Adhoc Committee on Entrepreneurship, Internship & Innovation for their technical support, IEEE PES Malaysia Chapter, IEEE Computer Society Malaysia Chapter, CREST and SHRDC for their sponsorship during the event and volunteers from Universiti Putra Malaysia for supporting this event. Also thank you to all participants of IEEE Region 10 Student Internship & Skills Development for joining the event.
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