Chennai: IT and IT products have begun to offer students in certain college techniques in Tamil Nadu internships from the second year and so on to train them in areas that appear such as cloud computing, data science, AI, machine learning and programming to make it ready .
Students are willing to spend several extra hours a week standing because they can work on real life problems in these companies.
This experience will make them ready to work when they graduate.
These students tend to get a better payment package and their career will be traced quickly, said recruiter.
Companies such as HCL and Virtusa are training of faculty members and students in fields such as embedded systems, full stack development, cloud computing and programming through the center of excellence.
This training program, which was implemented in just one or two universities last year, was extended to more than ten technical colleges throughout the state.
“The idea is to make students ready for industry needs while they do their courses,” said Ravi Venkatatamani, CEO of Kriyadocs, the leading publishing automation platform.
‘The company has a little time to train freshers’he say: “We have hired students from the previous third year.
But we found that the number of students we can recruit less.
So we decided to make a greater time investment..
Intervention on The second year will help us to make the people we need.
They need to work on artificial intelligence, machine learning, XML, backend development, and database.
“The company also did not have time as before to train students.
“When we go to hire in the past year, people may not have the necessary knowledge.
Unlike before, we have no luxury to train students.
However, universities have a lot of time and energy to include what the company wants.,” Krithivasan said, head, strategy and recruiting university engagement, Virtusa.
“Students who enroll in this program are almost ready when they reach the third year,” he added.
Virtusa has expanded this program to five universities in Tamil Nadu from one year ago.
Maaz Hussain, the third year of BTECH (Information Technology) from RMK Engineering College, is part of the Virtusa batch adoption program from the second year.
“Industrial experts teach the latest applications that are trending in the industry.
Applications or programming languages ​​are not part of the syllabus,” he said.
For example, the experts from Virtusa teach the batch of full Java stack, react to JS, my SQL along with cloud technology.
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“You will learn new items and remain updated with the industry.
It will also help land dream offers in large companies like Google, Amazon,” he said.
Srinithi Sasi, BTECH second students (AI and Science Data) from the KCG College of Technology, received a two-year internship program from Exeter Premedia, publishing technology technology.
“This is the perfect opportunity for students of the second year.
We will learn a little earlier than our seniors.
Even if we are not chosen for future work, it is an experience of how real life works for us,” he said.
He along with nine others was chosen for the internship program from his college.
These students must spend two hours a day or ten hours a week in training.
Harisaran G from the SSN College of Engineering has two to four hours of spare time a day when the college is closed during a pandemic.
He began doing an internship from the third semester and so on with a US-based startup, with benefits.
Now, he lands an internship with Motorq, a leading vehicle software company.
R M Kishore, Deputy Chairperson of RMK Engineering College, said, “This training program will ensure that students are updated with the latest technology.
These students will have the initial head during campus placements,” he said.