PRACTICAL TRAINING ORIENTATION

College of Computer and Information SciencesKing Saud University

Committee Members:Hanan Ali Tamimi (Head)

Arwa M Alturki; Malak Mohammad Almojaly; Arwa Abdulaziz Altameem;

Shahad Abdullah Alharbi;

Training Unit : Ms. Nawal Aldakhil

Ms. Norah Alsaeed

Committee Secretaries: Ms. Nawal Alfifi

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Outline

Before Practical Training

What is The Practical Training ?

Benefits and Goals of Practical training

Expectations from Practical training

Criteria for a good place/company for Practical training

Paperwork

Forms required

Schedule of deadlines

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What is The Practical Training3

A student works in an IT centre of a government or private sector on a technical task (not administrative)

A student has to spend at least 8 weeks or 300 hours in an approved training location full-time

A student is NOT allowed to register in any other summer course while she is doing her training

A student conducts her practical training during the last summer prior to her graduation

A student is required to complete 90- 100 credit hours to register for the practical training

What is The Practical Training4

In addition the following courses should be taken by the student:

CS :student should be registered in the Training (CSC 999)

IT :Database Principles (IT 222), Networks -1(IT 224), Web Applications (IT 311), Computer Programming-2- (CSC113), Data Structures (IT 212) and Software Engineering-1(IT 322)

A student can either :

Identify the training location on her own (Your-List)

Compete for the training locations provided by the IT department (KSU-List)

BENEFITS AND GOALS5

Benefits and Goals

During the practical training:

You learn about work outside of universities

You learn company environment and organization

You learn what kind of projects are done in companies or government institutions

You get opportunity to improve your communication skills

You get familiar with new tools and development facilities

You obtain the chance to work in a professional team

You collaborate with people from other disciplines

This helps you to make a career selection

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Benefits and Goals

You get opportunity to link real world problems to your university education

University Education

Real WorldProblems

Practical Training

Information TechnologyCurriculum

Software relatedHardware relatedConfiguration relatedAdministrativeManagement related….

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Benefits and Goals

You get out-of-university contacts and references

a Good Job

Practical training

UniversityEducation

Your skills, abilities, knowledge, and attitude

Practical training can be another step that helpsyou to get a good Job after graduation.

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What we expect from students and Practical training?

Obtain a good subset of the listed benefits and achieve the listed goals

See Information Technology discipline in action

Apply what you learned in a real work environment

We expect you to learn professional work ethics

Seriousness

Dedication

Being honest

Producing high quality work

Punctuality

Meeting deadlines

Enthusiasm

… etc.

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Position Allocation Requirements10

The following are requirements from a company

where training will be done :

The department must work on information technology applications and/or systems, such as software/hardware design/development/testing.

Training position brought by student (Your-List)

A student cannot bring a training position from the same place as the ones offered by the IT department

IT positions offered by the IT department depending on (KSU-List):

GPA of student

IELTS(5.5) or equivalent English qualifications (if exists)

Training experiences on IT (if exists)

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Criteria to select a company

The following are recommended requirements for a company to be selected as the training place

Your supervisor has a background in computing

You should be able to work in a multi-disciplinary team

The company/institution should use current tools and techniques

The company/institution should work on projects that have local or global impact

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Paperwork and Schedule 12

Paperwork

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Your-List

•Visit Training Unit to Know about positions offered(reserved ) by our department (important)

•From blog , get more information about training: Practical Training Program –(Arabic English )& Summary Training Specifications –(Arabic English )

•Find a company according to the mentioned criteria and take its acceptance (orally )

•From blog , print and fill Practical Training Plan and take Official Request Letter for company/institution from Training Unit /Committee Secretary and Sign Practical Training Regulation

•It is highly recommended to attached your CV , Transcript and other qualifications with forms submitted to company

•Bring back forms for evaluation and approval to Training Unit /Committee Secretary

•Check the accepted student at the blog

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Paperwork

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KSU-List

•For announced places ,apply to Training Unit with : Practical Training Request ,Transcript, TOEFL / IELTS exam results and CV in English and Sign the Practical Training Regulations .

•If your application is accepted – DONE

•Otherwise, the student has to reapply for YOUR-LIST

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Schedule of Deadlines17

First Batch (Your-List ):

Student has three trials to search for a place starting from Today 17th February ,2016 until 28 April , 2016( end of 15th week )

أسابيع8بـ : موعد التدريب

رمضان 24األربعاء–مايو 29شعبان 22األحد :قبل رمضان

-يوليو 11شوال الموافق 6األثنين , يونيو 29الموافق

أغسطس1شوال الموافق 27األثنين

29الخميس -يوليو 11شوال الموافق 6األثنين :بعد رمضان سبتمبر1ذو القعدة الموافق

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First Batch:

Student has three trials to search for a place

First Trials:

Student finds her own company

Submit the request

Result will be announced on blog

Accepted Done, Rejected Try Again (-1)

Second Trials:

Student finds her own company

Submit the request

Result will be announced on blog

Accepted Done, Rejected Try Again (-2)

Third & Last Trials:

Student finds her own company

Submit the request

Result will be announced on blog

Accepted Done, Rejected it is over

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Second Batch (Announced Places - KSU-List):

The first day to apply is on 20th February, 2016 February for 3 days only

Committee meets & make decision

Results will be announced on the blog

If student’s application does not accepted then she can apply to the first batch

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Questions

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