Why To Attend Internship Fair?
Recently iWebTecho & GenZDealZ.ai were the hiring partners at Pillai college and you’ll get to know how different hiring processes looks liked and the types of students we face.
Which are the different hiring processes?
- Face to face interview rounds: Here the candidate is asked with tough questions with clarity about his/her background in academics & extra curricular activities
- Online consecutive rounds: 1st round at the fair and the further rounds in virtual mode (2 to 3 person in the interview will throw variety of questions)
- Interview test with subject knowledge score and overall confidence: Action taker candidates flex with their work and answers each tough questions
Especially when SY students visits, they’re a little scared to visit alone so most of them were coming in couple form (girl & boy – looking like a marriage proposal :))
Many students weren’t clear about what they wanna specialise in the next few months/years, that’s where the career assessment platform called LifeVitae idea was pitched to Pillai’s Training & Placement Officer. Here’s you can find more details about the sample career assessment report:
What Key Insights We Found At Pillai’s Candidates?
- Girls are highly confident and hardworking when it comes to tech fields. All the tech roles we noted down (most of the girls were having household responsibilities plus managing thier studies well). Love to give internships to such female student
- Studetns are ready to work on an incentive basis, no matter if the fixed stipend is low (good sign of ‘deserve before desire’)
- Open for all types of adjustments, as many candidates were looking for summer internships, this was the chance to explore them the highest (all were ready to adjust their lectures & studies to give maximum output)
To give you a brief on my ongoing internship as during many remote internship I did, this is teh best one (may be because of the offline world I was exposed to & daily feedback I was receiving from seniors)
8 Major Learnings I Had During My Internship:
- Do one thing everything that scares you: I followed this quote religiously whether it be coming up with a new design on social channels, website & restructuring pitch decks. Most feedback will help you give teh constructive feedback (be in the office – you’ll love it)
- Work in a startup who has been 20 years in teh business: I’ve realised young founders do many mistakes and the same the interns had to face. Instead choose a org. where the founder has multiple businesses and you’re working in one of it (you’ll fail fast & fail cheap). E.g. we had printed a QR on smiley balls and it wasn’t delivered – eventually we printed bookmarks and distributed to investors
- Never choose to work remotely: Even just by listening to founder’s talk – there’re so many hidden lessons. As said by GC – everything you want in yoru life if out of your home. Remote work sounds fancy but fastest growth happens in office
- Overtime will be normal: You’ll have no balance in life. Extraordinary growth needs high amount of unstability that’ll make you capable to work & execute the fastest and handle multiple responsibilities at once. Sometimes even in non working days (when your salary is on hold), still executing things is needed – especially for startups to survive.
- Salary not the main motivation: Though salary is the lifeline to survive ahead, don’t make it your main driving force. Even if you don’t get the salary for a few months, work sincerely – focus on creating new income sources to not solely depend on stipend. In my current internship, I had waited for 2 months for 1 salary and was able to manage it well.
- Colleagues are your teammates for your startup: Build your startup parallely , hiring & collaborating with short term work with your colleagues will help create a strong team.
- Be expose to the outer world: Whichever field you’re in, ensure you’ve good people management skills (conducting events, talking to folks, coordinating & making them do the tasks) – A.I. lacks here in understanding human emotions.
- Always , always stay hungry: Eat only when you’re super hungry else focus on innovating & building great things. This is the time to use real intelligence to drive artificial intelligence. Many macro economic events going on – so ensure you build something that’s truly needed by the consumers.