Students struggle to get internship in Karach

Students struggle to get internship in Karachi

Article by Farooq Rajper 2k13/mc/39

Internship means a student or recent graduate who works for a period of time in any organization in order to get experience but what happens to students is its opposite.

Nowadays internship has become so necessary to start a well career especially for media students. That’s why every year in summer vacations hundreds of students apply for internships in their relevant fields to get experience and learn technical skills.

Some do for the preparation of their final thesis work, while some do for experience, and skills because it is considered to get a good job.

But to get an internship in any reputed organization is as hard as getting an executive post.

 As their exams are ended they rush to send CV’s to relevantorganizations to get allocated. Some organizations respond quickly some don’t respond. Another thing which I saw was that in Karachi organizations don’t want to allow interior students because I and my class mates faced this problem. These are some repliesby organizations “We don’t allow Sindh university students in our channel, we don’t have space to hire internees. We don’t allow any internee in our organization, we have already selected”.

These are the barriers for the talented students to go forward in the practical field, while those who are selected should have the complete basic information about the job before joining the field. Because it would save the time of both the internee and organization, students should show their potential and guts to the organization that they are competent to learn new skills.

It is of extreme importance to be punctual and active during the internship because if one is not sincere with his job can’t learn.

It’s bizarre or may be interesting that if you need an internship you are required to have strong references yeah even for unpaid internship and it has become a trend in our society and has spread in the society like a virus.

Because of it every student can’t get internship that’s why many students are left behind and when these same students are graduated and apply for jobs in these organizations they require experience, and again reference, so here the question arises that where from these things can be acquired, what these deprived students would do that’s why every year a large number of graduates are unemployed and those who have strong references get jobs.

In Sindh University there are 58 departments, and from these IT department, commerce, business administration, and some social science departments need internships and they can’t get.Students of interior Sindh face more problems because in interior Sindh there aren’t any organizations. Almost all industries/organizations are in Karachi, and these organizations are not allowing interior Sindh students for internship.

The fact is that these organizations are not supporting new talent which will cause dreadful results in future. To counter this problem organizations should make some space for the internees every year and should give internship to efficient students. Or universities should collaborate with reputable organizations to allocate their students in organizations for internships.

Mostly government university students face these problems because mostly all internships are allocated to private university students, because private universities are in collaboration with relevant organizations. Now internships should be divided to all universities so that every student can get this golden chance to enter in professional career. 

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