Any student in a vocational school undergoes practical training. After all, each person learns a specific skill or work from scratch. Practice is a great occasion to get acquainted with your future work, to consolidate the knowledge gained and to acquire skills. And there’s a chance. Having received a diploma, a student can immediately get a job exactly where he had been practicing.
From the training bench to production
Everything in life happens for the first time. From early childhood, people get used to school walls, teachers, and then begin to study at a technical school or institute. But once the time comes when you need to come not to lectures and control, but to the workshop or office. While studying at a university or college, you have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with a future profession. Educational practice will make it possible not only to know the work, but to make it clear: is it interesting, what benefits can be derived from this work. It is good when a university program is closely related to the profession. For example, a designer. At the institute, students often have to study relevant computer programs. At the office of a design agency, they can allow you to fully reveal your skills and talents.
Training practice is a kind of internship, but without formal registration for work. By the way, it all depends on the enterprise, the bosses, so they may pay money for the practice, or they may not pay. In the first case, the trainee must come to work strictly on schedule, understand that everything is very serious. You can’t just run away from work. In the second option, the trainee is not required to sit at work from morning to evening, he can come by agreement, getting acquainted with the profession only partially.
First impressions
How does a first-time student feel? He is unusual for everything, but also interesting. Often, mentors tell their wards: "Forget what you were taught and do as I do." On the one hand, it's worth obeying so as not to load yourself with unnecessary worries, and on the other, the theory will always come in handy. The trainee can see a familiar thing that teachers showed during laboratory classes. Perhaps he kept some notes and studies. While working at the enterprise, the situation may be remembered at the right time.
Practice is a period that frees a student from intense study. Often, it begins immediately after the summer session. There are pluses to this. When a student is studying, after class he returns to his apartment, quickly dines and sits down to learn lessons, write term papers. During practice, it is not necessary to run home after work in order to learn several subjects by the next day.
What to do in practice?
Always and everywhere, students are sent to production practice by supervisors with a ready-made plan, direction from the dean’s office and so on. A mentor will be appointed at the enterprise who will familiarize himself with the plan for the report, show the work, and give the task.
It is important to coordinate with the company management all the details and nuances. You need to be able to contact people. If the trainee does not ask anything, is not interested, this may adversely affect his reputation. The management will understand that they will not need such an employee in the future. Therefore, you need to be enthusiastic, but you should not immediately turn into an initiator and activist. This behavior is likewise not welcome. There should be a “middle ground” in everything. Practicing is not a club of activists, but only acquaintance with the profession.
Is practice necessary?
This question is often asked by university students. They ask: “Why do I need practical training if they still re-train me?” The question is fair, because in some companies newcomers are sent for training or internships. But you should not be in a hurry to be indignant about this: what if this is your future place of work? It is also worth remembering that during the training, practical training happens several times. As a rule, it begins with 2 or 3 courses. And this means that in the second year you can get one job, in the third - on another and so on. Practice is the ability to choose, evaluate.
Students during the practice are given a wonderful opportunity to understand all the nuances of work. In addition, students can learn which discipline they need to study in depth and seriously, so that they can be hired later.
In practice, do not forget about studying
This is the main rule. Often during the internship, young people forget about their school. Do not do this, because you need to prepare a report. It is recommended to start compiling it from the first days, so that later it will be easier and not have to do everything in a hurry. Practice is time for acquaintance with a specialty not in the training mode, but in production. Students often find it more interesting to learn when the theory is matched with practical skills.
Before submitting the report in advance, you need to check the plan, see if all the points are considered, studied. What is not clear, you must always ask the head of practice at the enterprise. This is a trump card for those who would like to get a job here in the future.
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At the very end of training, in the last year in the second semester, pre-diploma practice is required . In fact, it does not differ from the usual, but efforts need to be made more. Why? Yes, because the student needs to establish himself as a good specialist. Suddenly there will be a vacancy and he will be hired? Undoubtedly, practice will help. After training, the acquired skills should remain. They cannot disappear without a trace after several months.