My internship at Pratilipi started off on 29th May 2015 and lasted for 2 months. Basically, most of the computer engineers are not aware of the technical meets and other such happenings around, which leads to a lack of exposure in building their career . Wherein it was the same in my case too, I was wasting a lot of time in the early days when my career as an engineer started. But sooner or later, I thought of what else can I work on rather than my studies to build up my resume and improve my technical skills. I then formulated myself that there were only 2 possibilities to inflate my career.

They are :

Attending Symposiums to gain knowledge

Bring about a project

The latter one required more of research, thus the first one seemed to have no pre-requisites and I started off with my first at Anna University, Guindy. Fortunately, I got selected for an abroad internship at Singapore. I stepped onto another Symposium, that gave me a major coup too, I got selected for another internship at Bangalore at a startup titled Pratilipi. They proffered me to show up as soon as possible, from that moment exponential curve of my life commenced. Exposure, the word says it all, the only thing that can be gained as time progresses. I learnt a lot there but, I cannot teach what I learnt there instead i can give you a guide how to do that swiftly in order to pivot oneself from a novice to a veteran. Thereby I conclude that internship is the only opportunity providing factors that enables one to understand and experience the real scenarios under firms.

My key idea and my strategy to avail internships are as follows :

Learn to talk with anybody and everybody, you get 5 or 10 minutes, click, try to impress people within that. This is what that makes your name stand long. Try this with officials at the firm that you have chosen to avail internship.

Attend Symposiums that provides internships for winners 

Send cover letter with your resume attached and send mails to company HR’s.

These are my strategies where in it worked for me, nevertheless important fact is that you are in need of an exposure and not of money. You must stick upon this onto your head rigidly in order for these tricks to work.

Rather than the fact that you gain exposure, money, blah, blah, you can gain a mental relief if you are not studying and have started to work for at least a month’s time. You will now become a nightmare to your fellow mates and nobody can ever take pride from you. Other invisible benefits have been listed :

Stipend – which you start to receive while you are studying

Exposure – work experience that allegedly cannot be abolished.

Resume Factor – your resume size grows and you would have something to write upon your resume.

These are the litany of benefits and this is what that can be obtained as a maximum extent as you persuade your engineering career.