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Global apprenticeships by Ingenious Faces: Here’s what the students say

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Internships are considered integral for gaining hands-on experience. It facilitates a candidate’s personality development. Ingenious Faces offers one of its kind apprenticeship opportunities which ensure the holistic development of students. The candidates who enroll and the companies who offer apprenticeships, both stand to gain. This testimony from the founder of Satgana throws light on the apprenticeship from a company’s perspective.

Romain Diaz, Founder -Satgana

“I was fortunate to work with various apprentices introduced to us by Ingenious Face. It has been a truly valuable experience for us, and I am confident to say that it was equally the case for the apprentices who worked with us. Some of these relationships certainly go beyond just the pre-defined period and can truly make a difference. I am very thankful for this opportunity and would definitely recommend it to any company wishing to embrace the future of work.”

We are fortunate to have conducted an interview with two interns to know more about the virtual internships offered by Ingenious Faces, the work culture, and its impact on an individual’s personality.

Tune in with us as Bhavya Kalra who interned in Spain and Ankit Shende who received internship opportunities from Singapore and UAE, speak about their exciting journey in an exclusive interview with The Representative.

Q1. Tell us something more about the virtual internship offered by Ingenious Faces and what puts it apart from the usual opportunities of the internship?

Bhavya: I interned with Mashauri, an e-learning platform, a company based out of Spain. This internship offered by Ingenious Faces gave me an opportunity to work with a company abroad and get exposed to an altogether different culture virtually.

Ankit: Global opportunities, world-class mentorship, and constant upskilling support make it unique on its own. Most of the internships are flagged around simple beginner tasks and require a low level of team involvement, while internships offered by IF are a straight dive into the corporate world and make you the owner of projects you’ll be working on. The projects revolve around core problems in the organization and allow deep team involvement along with weighted responsibility and benefiting immense learning.

Q2. How are the tasks assigned to candidates and continuous mentorship & guidance provided?

Bhavya: Tasks are assigned through a dashboard that is created by Ingenious Faces, which is individually dedicated to each student. After that, there are continuous mentor interactions taking place over Zoom and weekly meetings to discuss the progress with our specific company mentors. Also, what adds to this is that we are provided individual coaches who guide us along the journey and help us overcome the challenges we face.

Ankit: A pre-set of goals and tasks driving the desired outcome are discussed initially. The same is broken into weekly targets and are reviewed. Necessary tools, methods, models, and learning is provided to achieve and excel in the same. Mentorship and guidance are the absolute best part about interning with opportunities by IF, guidance is usually just a message away to be received.

Q3. Few of the candidates got an extension of their internship. What is the basis for it?

Bhavya: It solely depends on how you perform during the course of the internship, just like a work from an office internship. It depends on your ability to adapt to the virtual setting and how flexible you are with respect to work assigned to you and you handle it.

Q4. To what extent do the students experience an overall personality development after interning through Ingenious Faces?

Bhavya: There is continuous personality enhancement when we intern through Ingenious Faces. From my experience, I was able to develop myself both personally as well as professionally. Through personality development webinars taking place simultaneously with the internship, I got a chance to work on my soft skills.

Q5. What are the notable features of your internships?

Bhavya: Ingenious Faces internships are quite striking and distinct. There is a personal coach to support us through the journey and help us overcome any challenge we face. Continuous mentor interactions in a virtual setting make the communication flow better. The ongoing personal development sessions also help us enhance our overall personality.

Ankit: Internships through Ingenious Faces are very remarkable. They provide global exposures, hands-on live tasks, continuous mentorship, and upskilling tools as well.

Q6. Is stipend given importance while applying for an internship?

Bhavya: I would say that the focus is on learning than a monetary benefit like a stipend. Overall positive experience is what matters.

Q7. What is the student response received regarding the internship?

Bhavya: The student response was quite satisfactory. Because of continuous coaching and mentorship being provided during the course of the internship, students were also able to cope with this transition phase of the new normal. The element of empathy added to the overall internship experience.

8. What kind of edge do these candidates receive compared to the other students?

Bhavya: Candidates get an opportunity to work with companies across the globe. They get continuous mentoring and personality building sessions. They are also assigned a personal coach who keeps a track of the progress of the candidates and gives suggestions and improvements if any.

9. Do you think global internships have a better impact than the ones in India?

Bhavya: Yes, because we are familiarized with other cultures, start respecting diversity and inclusion, and also networking opportunities are ample in this case.

Ankit: Absolutely, working in global setups helps develop better business acumen, cross-culture sense, unique problem-solving skills; resulting in a better candidate who shall bring added uniqueness and value to the table.

10. How far do Ingenious Faces internships help provide a holistic development?

Bhavya: To a great extent, I would say.  With a focus on continuous development, IF internships provide an overall personality transformation opportunity, provided the students utilize it to the fullest.

Ankit: Internships by Ingenious Faces offer real-world and challenging projects to work on. It gives a chance to candidates for improving by way of segmented review of work. They also provide for upskilling resources. The constant mentorship programs from industry leaders and providing personal development feedbacks go a long way.

Ingenious Faces offer novel opportunities to candidates to grow and learn. During the pandemic, they have gone the extra mile to assist students. To register for the global apprenticeship program click here

Samson Tingbani, Head of IRR &SE – the Middle East and Africa, DHL

“Ingenious Faces has become an enabler of opportunities for recent graduates to gain working experience. During this period of COVID, it has become even more challenging for final year students or recent graduates to find meaningful work or entrepreneurial opportunities. I’m satisfied with the efforts of Ingenious faces to help others.”

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