Certified Internship Track

Internship is a program organized by an institution or company in which there are various guidance to do work in a certain position. This program is usually designed to prepare someone to have a skillset that can be used as a career support. Before going to the real world of work, apprenticeship can be a place to train mentally, improve skills, apply knowledge gained in the classroom learning process. Internship is also often referred to as work practice programs. Therefore, an internship or apprenticeship is a valuable experience in the process of pursuing a career, self-development and improving abilities. There are many advantages to be gained by participating in an internship.

Following are the benefits of attending the Internship:

1. Get a Real Picture of the World of Work

Students who have never entered the world of work usually have an ideal picture of the job they want to get, position, salary, and work activities. However, do you know that often the reality of work life that is obtained is not the same as imagined and expected. By undergoing an internship, you can learn to be aware of the gap between expectations and reality that must be lived. In the apprenticeship process you are not burdened with full responsibility like regular employees, but you can see and learn the process and work rhythm of permanent employees. This can later minimize work stress when you actually start to become a permanent employee.

2. Putting into practice what you get in college

Schools and campuses are places where we gain knowledge. Material is obtained through what the lecturer conveys, reading books, reviewing literature, and doing assignments. The knowledge obtained from various courses is certainly very large in number and will become self-capital to then be used in real life in the world of work. By participating in an internship, this moment is your opportunity to practice the knowledge you have.

3. Improving Soft-Skills Ability

Soft-Skills are life skills in interacting with other individuals. This skill is obtained not only by reading and memorizing it. Soft-skills development requires hands-on practice. There are various kinds of soft-skills that you can get and hone when you take an internship, namely communication skills, adaptation, social-awareness, teamwork, time management, initiative, leadership, negotiation, problem solving, collaboration, critical & creative thinking, controlling emotions, networking, public speaking, stress management, resilience, etc.

4. Adding Relationships That Can Provide Recommendations

Entering the world of work will automatically make you establish relationships and interact in a professional manner. Relationships are one of the things needed to build a successful career or business. This is because humans definitely need the help of others in life. By having good relationships, we can share information and support each other regarding work and careers. In addition, when co-workers or superiors are satisfied and happy with your work or your personality, they will not be ashamed to provide recommendations to other co-workers.

5. Completing a CV for the Work Experience Section

Fresh graduates often feel confused the first time they make their own resume or CV when applying for a job. They are surprised when they realize that their CV looks less attractive because it doesn’t have much to attach and display in it. By having internship experience, you can make your CV look more weighty because it displays work experience, projects that have been completed, or achievement of work targets. Having work experience can be a separate assessment for recruiters. Because candidates with work experience can be judged to have learned and have some soft-skill abilities, understand work values.

Written by :

Ajeng Diah Hartawati, M.Psi, Psychologist

Enrichment Scheme

Description:

• IN           : Certified Internship
• RS          : Certified Research
• EN          : Certified Entrepreneurship
• CD          : Certified Community Development
• SA          : Certified Study Abroad
• IS            : Certified Specific Independent Study
• ETC        : Study Program Special Purposes

Note: Student can choose one of the available tracks.

Students who failed in Enrichment Program I can retake with the same track or change into another track. As for Enrichment Program II, student who failed with Certified Internship, Certified Research, Certified Community Development, and Certified Study Abroad track on Enrichment Program II, can retake with the same track or change into another track. However students who take Certified Entrepreneurship track on Enrichment Program II, should retake with another track.

Internship Track

The purpose of Internship Track is to foster, educate and produce human resources who are ready to be applied between BINUS University and BIPP partners (to reduce the gap between education and industry). Students will do practical work in the company for 1 (one) or 2 (two) semesters and convert a maximum of 40 (forty) credits. The company will provide jobs according to the skills and expertise according to the student’s major. In this Study Program, taking Internship Track is mandatory in either 6th or 7th semesters, in which students available to choose other Certified Enrichment Track.

Through this track, students will also follow the work culture and working hours of the company so that companies can evaluate prospective employees from an early age who may be able to continue the process from internship to employee. For students themselves, the advantage of this program is that students have the opportunity to apply the knowledge learned on campus in a real work environment and students will also get sufficient training when they graduate.

Enrichment Program I

Enrichment Program II