Effective professional practice

How many businesses have a vision for accepting interns beyond the traditional mindset of "helping students learn a trade" or supporting schools? Of course, when businesses accept interns, they have provided valuable assistance to students so that they have the opportunity to penetrate the labor market and practice their profession. And it is also an extremely valuable help for schools, where students are guided to acquire a systematic theoretical foundation of their 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, who will do it? When the business community is able to exploit a highly qualified human resource, the strategic benefits of that will be beyond 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 perspective that fully respects 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 fairly evaluating the results.

As for schools, should we stubbornly maintain the notion that classes can only be held in the school space? The models 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 implement some modules 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 referring to.

Interns are truly a human resource that businesses need to strategically use 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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