Industrial Training, Is It Really Worth In Fresher’s Career?

As a part of your professional course, you are required to complete an industrial training in your relevant field. Students are seen each year running from pillar to post in order to secure a position with a reputed company but is it worth the struggle and does the training add any value to a fresher’s career?

An industrial training helps you learn more about your field or industry from a real-world perspective. What you learn in the classroom certainly is important but when it comes to implementing those teachings with a real client or customer, it’s a completely different ball game that you learn during the training. There’s a big difference between learning about strategies and tactics and actually applying them. You can see how the classroom knowledge applies to real situations and it reinforces concepts taught in classes.

A training program also provides you valuable work experience. In IT, no longer can a college graduate land an entry-level job with merely a bachelor’s degree without any extra knowledge. Summer training programs are a great way to generate work samples for your professional portfolio and let you demonstrate real projects and accomplishment stories for your resume making your chances of landing the job higher. It also shows that you have the day-to-day experience of working in your field and know first-hand what it’s like to work in an office, interact with supervisors and co-workers, and handle customers or clients.

Find out if this is the right path for you. Working for a company in your industry can provide you valuable insight into whether you want to pursue a career in the industry or not and which profile to gun for, potentially avoiding the costs of obtaining a degree in a field you’re not interested in. It’s best to know as early as possible, and an industrial training can help you do that.

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Develop and build upon skills. Picking up new skills during the training can help you in future employment opportunities and might give you an edge over your competition in future application processes.

Consider the training as a foot in the door opportunity to share your skills with a prospective employer even before the hiring process for an entry-level job occurs. If you manage to create a lasting impression, they would certainly consider hiring you in the future when an opening does occur. Even if it does not happen, you will at least have added some people in your professional network which is often one of the best ways to land a new job and a primary way to learn about unadvertised job opportunities.

You can get references for future job opportunities. Your training mentor has had a chance to see your skills in action at the company and is an ideal reference for future job opportunities. You are also introduced to other students and recent graduates in your field or who share your interests—which certainly adds to your career or social skills.

How was your industrial training experience? Please share.

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