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pressured to have work experience on
Doyouthinkcurrentinternshipsystemhas
theirCVstogaincompetitivenessinthe
anyproblems?
job market. At the same time, they also
The Scholars’
Korea
India
have to figure out what they like and
Avenue
64%
wanttodo.Noguidingsystemexistsfor
the students. “People randomly apply to
41.8%
40.71%
many places and then avail themselves
25%
The Scholars’ Avenue is an
of whatever opportunity comes their
17.49%
independent student-run campus
way,” said Tibrewal. As many Indian
4%
newspaper of the Indian Institute
students pointed out in the survey, this
ofTechnology(IIT),Kharagpur.It
①
②
③
leads to the problem of a mismatch of
is the first IIT established in India
①Yes
②No
③Notsure
talent.Alackofinternshipopportunities
and is recognized as an Institute
aggravates this situation for Indian
of National Importance by the
students.
Whataretheproblemsthatwe
governmentofIndia.TheScholars’
Whataboutthewage?Arethestudents
Avenue is founded in 2005 and
shouldconsider?
gettingpaidenoughfortheirwork?Both
its copies are now delivered to all
Even though many HUFSans and
KoreanandIndianstudentswhotookthe
students on campus and
IIT students had positive internship
survey seem to have little problem with
soft copies are
mailed to
experiences, they still believe that
thepayasonly9.4%ofKoreanstudents
the entire
there are problems with the current
and4%ofIndianstudentspointeditout
facu lt y
internship system in each country.
as their reason for discontentment. In
and several
40.71% of Korean students and 64%
Korea, interns are usually paid 80% of
thousand
of Indian students admitted that there
the salary that a new employee would
alumni. That
are problems, while only 17.49% of
get. In India, in most cases, the wage
means more
Koreans and 25% of Indians said there
willbejustenoughforbasicsustenance,
than 10,000
werenot.Otherssaidtheywerenotsure.
which can be 10% to 50% of the salary
studentsoncampus
Many of the problems are related to the
a new employee would get. “Perhaps
and over 20,000
qualityofworkinKorea.Somestudents
most companies don’t view internships
alumni worldwide. The team is
complained that the work interns have
as such a huge value addition in India.
drawn entirely from among the
to complete is so trivial that they are
They will still have a lot of talented
students of the institute and its
not getting enough practical work
peopleknockingontheirdoorsanyway,”
mission is to report and anlyze
experience. A student mentioned, “All
Tibrewaladded.
events that affect the campus
thehighqualificationsyouhavetofulfill
Despite the cultural differences that
and to be the voice of the IIT
are useless for real work.” Tibrewal
people may assume, university students
Kharagpur student community.
thinksthatthisissubjective.“Itdepends
in the two countries, India and Korea,
The articles in The Scholars’
on the company. In some cases, it can
are found to have similar ideas and
Avenue have been referenced
vary even within a company. I’d say
anxieties on internship. As it is seen,
in national media outlets; most
that this is mostly about how seriously
some problems, such as the mismatch
recently in The Indian Express,
the company looks at their internship
of talent, lack of a quality working
Hindustan Times and The
system.”
system and the social pressure to have
Telegraph.
What is more, some students think
aninternshipexperienceprevailsinboth
that the whole purpose of gaining work
countries.Internshipsarebigaroundthe
Avenue
experience from internships now is
world nowadays. For these experiences
lost and that it is only done to fill in the
Scholars’
to be mutually beneficial for both the
blank spots in CVs. “I feel the pressure
students and companies, more efforts
The
toapplyforinternshipsandsuchbecause
should be made to better organize the
ⓒ
everyone does it and I’ll lose in the
internshipsystem.
competition if I don’t,” said a student
from the Department of Romanian.
cherrymangos@hufs.ac.kr
Both Korean and Indian students are
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