English abstract
Purpose:
The research aims to investigate the effectiveness of internship placements and seeks to clarify venues that can improve such useful opportunities and use some of modern methods that help students to acquire the required skill, besides work with perfection and provide students with the desired experiences in the labor market.
Design/methodology/approach:
To achieve the above goals, the study aims investigated the effectiveness of the internship placement for graduate students at A’Sharqiyah University in Oman, and to achieve the study procedures, the researcher distributed a questionnaire to a number of 200 students by using a simple random samples for A’Sharqiyah University in the Sultanate of Oman in their different disciplines such as: Diploma, bachelors and masters degrees holders.
Findings &Practical implications:
The researcher came out with positive results that show the effectiveness of practical training for the graduate students at the A’Sharqiyah University in Oman. The students also expressed their desires and encouragement for the training to be in the field of the student’s specialization and to apply what was studied during the training, in light of these results the researcher recommended each of the educational universities, training supervisors, students, job seekers and decision-makers are in need to consider the effectiveness to train through the relevance of the student's specialization, duration of the training, and the work preparation process .Also the close monitoring of the academic supervisor or the mentor is important as it will help better cater for the training needs of the students during the placement. It would also be beneficial if the academic institutions along with the placement provider can device a bespoke training placement to increase the effectiveness of the placement.
Keywords : Internship ,Investigating, effectiveness, placement, graduate, students Training.
