From a student’s perspective
Students often struggle to test the theory they learn in a practical environment. The consequence of this is that students have to wait until they graduate to test the type of work and environment in order to fully determine if that is what they are looking for. This means that the students’ time is not being used efficiently, potentially causing a negative impact on the student’s CV if it results in frequent job changes.
Internships help students in many ways, including:
Career Path
Allowing students to narrow and determine their career interests in a professional manner while still being a student.
Early Development
Giving students the opportunity to detect, at an early stage, any areas that they need to improve in before they begin their work life.
A job lined up
Going through an internship increases the chances of being offered a full-time job after graduation
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Graduate with experience
Entering the job market as a fresh graduate, yet with work experience and work references on the CV, leads to increased employability.
Employer's confidence
Increasing employability as it is giving employers more confidence in a job applicant who has previous internship experience. This is because applicants with internship experience are more likely to be certain about the type of job they’re applying to, and as a result, has less probability of quitting compared to those who are testing it for the first time.
5. On-going consultations
We are not going to hand over the programme and leave. Any new initiative requires follow up, and we will provide ongoing support to make sure that any issues that come up are smoothly and fully addressed.
4. Train relevant staff
Once all the materials are developed, we will meet with the staff relevant to the internship in order to make sure that they are fully equipped with everything they need to utilize the intern position.
3. Design supporting material
These include documents such as:
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Intern selection criteria
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Intern recruitment process guide
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Intern Personnel Specification
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Intern Employment Agreement
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Employer’s manual to implementing the programme,
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Intern periodic Performance Review
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Intern End of Programme Review
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Internship Programme feedback
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Texts for internship advertisements
2. Programme Design
Our teams in the UK and KSA will then analyze the data collected to develop the detailed internship programme. Our team will consist of experts in human resources and management, as well as experts from within the industry and sector that the business is operating in.
Some features of our programmes include:
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Does not create a load and a burden on the employer.
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Tailored to the employer, taking into account the sensitivity and uniqueness of their operations.
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Contextualized to the job market and work culture.
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Exposes the intern to all relevant areas of work, allowing both the intern and the employer to make an educated decision about the prospects of full time employment.
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Presents the employer with tailored tools to assess the intern and make future decisions about their employment.
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Detailed and comprehensive in order to be fully beneficial to the intern and employer
How do we create internship programmes that add value to businesses?
The concept of an internship is not unique; the Saudi market is. Internships have long been a human resource solution that many of the top businesses around the world utilize. This is why we have a team based in the United Kingdom and a team based in Saudi Arabia, ensuring that we design and tailor the highest quality programmes to the businesses operating in the Saudi Arabian market.
To do that, each internship programme we design will go through 5 steps:
Benefits for your business
Reduce staff turnover: Employer confidence when hiring new staff increases they are hired after being exposed to an internship. This is because it demonstrates that they’re self-assured about the specialism, work environment and career choice, and hence reduces the chance of leaving the company soon after starting.
Reduce financial losses: New employees are always an investment, be it through their salary or the training they receive. Internships reduce the chances of new employees quitting, thus reducing the risks of the investments not having a return.
Reduce initial investment: Investment of time and finances would be reduced if the new recruit was previously an intern with the employer, as they are more familiar with the operations and nature of the businesses than those who are experiencing it for the first time.
Reduce legal burden: Hiring and layoffs come with legal considerations and challenges. Internships, being by their very nature temporary, allows the employer to test a potential new employee without making a long term commitment that comes with legal burdens.
Attract talent: Employers are always in a ‘war for talent’. An attractive internship programme will attract talented interns, giving the employer a head start in their potential full time recruitment after the internship ends.
Build loyalty: An employer who offers a pleasant and useful internship programme for an intern increases their loyalty towards the business.
Flexibility: Internships puts no obligations on the employer to recruit interns. If the employer is impressed by the intern, they may recruit them, and if not, there are no strings attached.
Reduce workload: Interns can get work done! This helps reduce the workload over other full time employees, increasing the productivity of the business.
Test in practice: Reviewing CVs, conducting interviews and reading cover letters are useful, but internships add another practical test. Internships allow employers to test the abilities, skills, loyalty and passion of the interns through practice, helping make their potential recruitment decision easier and more informed.
Create ambassadors: Interns who had a useful internship will spread a positive word about the employer once they go back to their student circles, increasing the publicity and interest in the business, and attracting more talent.
Why we design internships?
An internship is a form of work experience gained through a defined period of time, usually during summer holidays. The intern, typically a university student, spends this period with an employer, leading to a range of benefits for both employers and students as well as the wider job market.
Internships have long been a human resource solution that many of the top businesses around the world utilize.
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1. Business Assessment
We will hold workshops and meetings with key staff within your business. During these engagements we will explain the concept of internships and note down the details of your business’s operations. We will facilitate a discussion to hear from your staff about the positions where an intern can add value and the tasks that could be allocated to them.
Who are we
We are a group of professionals, grown up in the Kingdom and pursued their university degrees within it and overseas. Through innovative solutions, our aim is to contribute to building a more effective job market in Saudi Arabia and enable it to further compete globally. Driven by expertise and passion, Internpad, a project of Levipad Ltd. came to existence.
6. Intern Recruitment: Closing the loop! (Optional)
Once we have completed the design of the programme, by this stage we have a strong understanding of your company and what the intern would be doing. To close the loop, we offer a recruitment service, where we shortlist the best potential interns for firms to choose from depending on their programme. Our reach expands to universities within Saudi Arabia as well as world-renowned international universities. The war on talent is underway and we’re at the forefront