How do college students apply for IBM internships?

The intern program will become the main channel for IBM campus recruitment in the future.

Last Tuesday, IBM held the closing ceremony of the 2007 "Blue Road" summer internship program for college students in Beijing. More than 500 college students who participated in the internship program received IBM internship certificates. They will be the direct candidates for IBM to recruit "white paper talents". Ms. Bai Yan, director of human resources recruitment and talent planning management of IBM Greater China Human Resources Department, told reporters that the IBM intern program will replace campus recruitment.

It is reported that this year, more than 500 college students across the country have participated in this internship program. They were selected from 23,000 college students who applied for internships. In addition to Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, participating cities also include 17 cities including Shenyang, Chengdu, Xi'an, Taiyuan, and Shijiazhuang; internship positions cover various departments such as software and hardware R&D and testing, consulting, sales, and service; it is one of the "Blue In the four years since the "Road" project was implemented, it has been the year with the widest urban distribution, the largest number of internship positions, and the largest number of interns.

It is understood that the "Blue Road" student practice plan is issued once a year, and each phase includes two stages - the summer internship stage and the spring internship stage. Students participating in spring internships are students who have already received offers. The internship program is open to major universities across the country, mainly targeting key universities of the Ministry of Education in the 211 Project. The internship cities are mainly concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, but also include Shenyang, Chengdu, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Shijiazhuang and other cities where IBM has branches. The majors that recruit the most interns are computer-related majors, economic management-related majors, and engineering communication-related majors.

Ms. Bai Yan said that the intern program has now become the main way for IBM campus recruitment. In 2006, the intern recruitment rate reached 70%. This year, sales and service departments will also recruit directly from interns. Determine the candidates for campus recruitment in 2008. "From school to work, the role change of graduates will not be completed in one step. They need a process of adaptation, and the intern program is the best way to solve this problem. We have tailored training courses for interns. This will help young students get familiar with society as early as possible, whether they will work for IBM in the future or not, and will help them adapt to the new working environment.”

IBM’s intern program this year has adopted a large number of new employees. Onboarding training content. Interns can fully understand the company culture and work environment, and systematically understand the features of products and solutions, which will help interns adapt to the work environment as early as possible and find their appropriate role at work as soon as possible. IBM also arranged for interns to participate in the company's internal development projects this year. Each project has a senior IBM employee as the project manager, who also serves as the intern's instructor to guide the intern's work skills.

In terms of training format, IBM this year adopted a method of combining centralized training with distributed internships. The interns were divided into three groups: North, Central and South for centralized training; after that, the interns returned to their own branches and departments. Each intern was assigned a dedicated mentor to start internships in related business fields. Work. Distributed business internship is a kind of targeted and tailor-made training that allows interns to understand the business environment more accurately and effectively, and become familiar with market needs and their own development direction. This combination of centralized and decentralized training not only effectively conveys corporate culture and professional skills, but also deepens the interns' understanding of IBM and teamwork.

Yang Kang, an intern from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said: "I have benefited a lot from the two-month internship. It not only allowed me to learn the work process and understand the corporate culture of IBM, but also allowed me to learn from my mentor. I felt the professionalism among my colleagues and realized the importance of teamwork. The working environment is really different from school life. This internship laid a good foundation for me to enter the workplace in the future. ”

< p>It is reported that after the summer internship period, IBM and the interns will finalize the candidates through two-way selection. Those interns who have received formal employment certificates will participate in the spring internship program in the second year, which will focus on professional guidance for their upcoming work at IBM to help them adapt to the future business environment and job needs more quickly. (End)