Professional Internship - Briefing for EEE BY CAREER & ATTACHMENT OFFICE (CAO) - School of Electrical and Electronic ...

Professional Internship
      Briefing for EEE

           BY CAREER & ATTACHMENT OFFICE (CAO)
                               21 February 2019

Briefing Objective
• To know the role of CAO
• To know the process of PI registration

Role of CAO
• Co-ordinate and administer the entire PI

• Set policies on PI with Schools

• Provide support for students to complete their
  credit-bearing internship

Why PI?

 Develop Career Capital – valuable skills that
        differentiate you and advance your
        career competencies
 Gain work experience and exposure
 Access industries before graduation
 Create tangible value in real-world
 Build network of contacts
 Shape informed career options and pathways

Professional Internship (PI)
 AY2019-2020

PI Period:
Semester 1 : 5 August – 21 December 2019 (20 weeks)
Semester 2 : 13 January – 30 May 2020 (20 weeks)

Professional Internship (PI) is a COURSE REQUIREMENT
 Students must adhere to the official PI period
 Students are expected to show full commitment and carry out your PI to
  the best of your abilities

Do NOT schedule other activities during the PI period to avoid disruption to PI
 Any decision to end the PI on your own without consulting CAO may result
  in you failing your PI

StudentLink  Academic Matters  Attachment Services
 Engineering Attachment  Before Attachment
http://teamsites.ntu.edu.sg/CAO/engineering2/Pages/default.aspx

Registration of PI AY2019-2020
               (Round 1 Selection)

Professional Internship Period

                       5 March 2019 (Tuesday) 9.00am to
S1, AY 2019-2020
                       11 March 2019 (Monday) 5.00pm

S2, AY 2019-2020       Mid-August 2019 (To be advised)

PI Registration Process
 Step 1: Complete & pass Online Safety Quiz by
          stipulated timeline given by CAO
 Step 2: Prepare your resume
         - review your resume using the 'VMock - Online
           Resume-Review Tool' in Teamsite
         - append your degree audit to your final resume
           and save it in pdf format not exceeding 1 Mb File-size
 Step 3: Search for organisations & projects you are
          interested in (when portal opens)
 Step 4: Register for PI by keying in your organisation/
          project choices, and other relevant
          information

Selection of PI Organisations/Projects through Portal
You can select up to 6 choices:

•    Overseas choice (if any)
      Up to 3 choices

     and/or

•    Local choice
      Up to 3 choices
         - must not contain project from the same interviewing
           organisation
         - all organisations are of equal priorities

 It is NOT compulsory for you to fill in all the choices if the projects
                      are not of your interest.

Self-Sourcing: When and How?
 Students are strongly encouraged to source for their own PI
  placement
  - Start NOW if you have not already started; competition is keen

 Platforms for self-source:
  • Personal Contacts
  • CareerAxis Portal http://www.careeraxis.ntu.edu.sg
  • CAO Weekly Emails
  • Recruitment Talks, events and other activities organised by CAO
  • External job portals: https://www.indeed.com.sg/;
     https://glints.sg/; https://www.internsg.com/; Jobs DB,
     Jobscentral, etc.
  • Visit the websites of companies you are interested in. Quite a
     number of companies provide link or email address for students
     to apply for internship

Self-sourcing: Rules & Guideline
•   Full details and forms are available at:
    Before Attachment  Sourcing for Own Internship Placement

•   The self-sourced placement must meet the following conditions
    before it can be considered as an PI placement:

           organisation paid-up capital is at least S$10,000

           number of full-time employees in the organisation is at
            least 3
           organisation should have been incorporated for at
            least 2 years
           organisation must have a proper office setup and not
            one that operates from home or virtual office

Self-sourcing: Rules & Guideline
      training programme/project must be relevant to the
       student's course of study

      full-time staff (as the student's supervisor) who has the
       relevant technical knowledge to provide supervision

      conduct assessments according to NTU's Attachment
       Assessment System.

      period of the internship must be as stipulated in the NTU's
       Academic Calendar

      student is not associated with the organisation and has no
       immediate family members, close relatives or friends either
       working in the organisation or is/are director(s) or substantial
       shareholder(s) of the organisation which may give rise to
       conflicts of interest

Self-sourcing: Rules & Guideline

 •   The self-sourced application is subject to the final approval
     by the School and CAO.

 •   The submission deadline for the self-sourced application is
     15 May 2019.

 Once your self-source application is approved:
 • you will not be allowed to request for change in organisation.
 • you are expected to commit fully to this internship.
 • no further self-source placement application will be
   considered.

Acceptance of Offer
IMPORTANT:
•   The FIRST offer accepted by you will be your internship placement.

•   Once an internship offer is accepted (whether via the internship
    portal, email, submission of self-sourced documents, verbal or signed
    agreement, etc.), you will NOT be allowed to withdraw from it.

•   You MUST stop all efforts to source for further internship placement
    opportunities.
     Any further offers that come along will need to be rejected
      politely.
     If you have applied to other internship programmes such as
      NTUitive’s OEP or Work and Study, you are to inform the
      respective programme office(s) that you have already secured a
      credit-bearing internship placement and will withdraw from their
      programme(s) accordingly.

Renege of Offer

WARNING:
Disciplinary action will be taken against students who accept more
than one internship offer and/or rescind an accepted offer.

Such may include, but not limited to, voiding the internships that the
offers relate to and issuance of warning letters that will bar the
students from awards in NTU.

REMEMBER!

• STOP sourcing or going for further interviews as soon as
  your placement is confirmed and accepted, be it from
  self-sourcing or via the rounds of selections, etc.

• DO clarify with CAO directly if you are in doubt, do not
  rely on the grapevine

• DO approach CAO when you are stuck at a choice
  point and not sure what to do

• DO refer to information in Teamsite for more information
  on Professional Internship (PI) programme

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                                              Mr Tommy Ng

                                    Electrical and Electronic Engineering
                                                (EEE, IEM)

Any Questions?

   Please contact the internship team:

        Career & Attachment Office
           South Spine SS3-B2-15
           50 Nanyang Avenue
         Tel : 6790-4404, 6592-1841
Email : CAO_EngrgAttachment@ntu.edu.sg