The Summer Internship Program (SIP) is an integral aspect of the undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs at FLAME. It gives students exposure to how organizations function and provides ringside perspectives on potential careers. Across sectors, organizations should consider hiring FLAME interns for the unique talents, energy, and temperaments they offer. The ideal FLAME student is a product of rigorous structures of learning that blend concepts in disciplines such as business, communication, design, computer science, and data science with the soft skills and ethical compass that the liberal arts help inculcate. In their coursework and their experiential learning programs, students work on projects that demand critical thinking, creativity, social outreach, collaboration, and the entrepreneurial spirit. The profusion of major-minor combinations at FLAME helps bring an interdisciplinary mindset to real-world problems. Summer internships are an excellent way to recruit such talent for the future.
Building Future Careers Now
As the Summer Internship Program is typically the first experiential step on their career paths, students at FLAME are prepared systematically for their internships. Early in their second year, students are briefed about the important role the SIP plays in their academic curriculum and the long-term value of such projects.
Progressively through the academic year, the Career Services Office (CSO), in coordination with the faculty-led SIP Committee, organizes orientations and training sessions to create an awareness among students of possible careers for their interests, and of how the SIP experience can help them navigate professional choices.
Through town-hall style meetings with entire batches, interactions with guest speakers from the industry, sessions on résumés and statements of purpose, workshops on soft skills, and confidence-building sessions with internal and external trainers, it is ensured that students spend time and effort to be ready for their projects well in advance. Through one-on-one mentorship as advisors, FLAME faculty play an important role in focused SIP preparation with students in their respective areas of specialization. Over the years, our Alumni too have been reaching out proactively to students with opportunities.
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