Effective professional practice

How many businesses have a vision for accepting interns beyond the traditional mindset of "helping students learn a trade" or supporting the school? Of course, when businesses accept interns, they are providing valuable assistance to students so that they have the opportunity to enter the labor market and practice their profession. It is also a valuable help for the school, where students are guided to acquire a systematic theoretical foundation of the profession and practice the necessary qualities and skills to be ready to become competent workers who meet the expectations of society and employers. Professional practice should never be limited to the framework of simulation at school. Students must be exposed to professional practice as soon as possible, helping them to recognize practical measures to adjust their learning process at school.

But is there anything more to think about outside the "box" of the above-mentioned obvious arguments? Should businesses consider accepting student interns as an "obligation" for their field? I say "obligation" because if businesses themselves do not proactively contribute value to training high-quality human resources for their own industry with universities and colleges, who will do it? When the business community is able to exploit a source of highly qualified human resources, the strategic benefits of that will not need further discussion. Instead of criticizing or criticizing "ignorant" or "unemployable" graduates, many businesses have been actively joining hands with schools to solve that limitation through cooperation to support practice and internship conditions for students.

In a more far-sighted vision, and with a full respect for young human resources, businesses should also build a paid internship policy for students. The issue should not only be understood from the perspective of labor wages, but must be understood as the strategic vision of businesses in formalizing the use of young human resources, putting the student internship into a full-time, dedicated work experience and fair evaluation of the results.

As for schools, should we stubbornly maintain the notion that classes can only be held in the school space? The model of "business hours" or even business semesters should become an official language in designing training programs. These could be forms of training cooperation between schools and businesses, such as in media training, cooperation between some universities and newspaper offices to deploy some courses right at the newsroom or sending mechanical engineering students to work at an automobile assembly plant for a few months... can be considered an example worth considering.

Interns are truly a human resource that businesses need to use strategically from a very early age to help them and themselves. The problem is that both schools and businesses must be ready to change their approach to enhancing the effectiveness of professional practice for students.

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