IO 2:
This intellectual output was about the creation of non-formal work-based employment trial program, which was successfully created and published in the required\planned formats’ as a 42 pages long document. This output outlined the contents of work-based employment trial program, which is usually/globally called as “internship”, where based on the objectives of this project, this report outlined the essentials of creating an internship program for IT companies to employ young IT talents in their workforces. There are diverse internship components listed in this report which can assist creation of short or long term internships in any type of IT company, as a comprehensive guide with all the necessary components. At the last part, there is an internship program example called “Non-Formal and Work-Based Employment Trial Program”.
The subjects we have outlined included:
Why to provide internships in IT sector?, Benefits of internships, Benefits to IT companies, Benefits to Young IT talented job seekers (students, graduates etc.) How to Begin, Responsibilities, Intern Rights, Supervising an Intern, Hiring an Intern Training, Orientation, Mentoring, Evaluations, Successful Internships, Process to Obtain an Intern, Non-Formal and Work-Based Employment Trial Program, Content of the Employment Trial Program, Employment Trial Program Course Contents, Employment Trial Program Course Curriculum Design and more.
Innovative aspects: The main innovative aspect was producing combining two important subjects together and produce an output where we have combined non-formal and work-based employment trial subjects, which have had some innovative aspects as answering an important lack of knowledge and resource in youth studies repertoire and supporting youth employment in IT businesses in a special way which is not practiced enough.
Impact: This output with its content and information provided would have various impacts for youth job seekers and IT businesses as recruiters if the knowledge, documents and strategies are used as provided in this output. The possible impacts would be:
-improving the youths’ skills in getting better internship opportunities in IT businesses which can improve their employability skills,
-developing IT businesses’ skills in preparing improved internships to recruit new workforce, organising better interships in short or longer terms and using our internship documents to make internships much better, organised and effective.
Transferability: Our output has been written in an easy language which can be understood by any reader, the materials were prepared in charts and tables so that they can be downloaded and directly used by IT businesses, published in digital formats (word and pdf formats) which can be downloaded and used by any organisation.
There was a small difference among what we have planned and implemented where we have included more subjects than what we have planned in this output. We have researched more subjects which were related to work-based employment trial content and for non-formal contents, which helped us to create more detailed and effective output.
