Avc Ojt Analysis

Chapter 1

The Problem

Introduction

All knowledge learned inside the four corners of the classroom is worthless if it will just stock inside our minds. It will still remain as an idea, a theory and an imagination. Knowledge should be applied and skills should be practiced into realistic career settings. These can be done through an internship or an on-the-job-training curriculum.

On-the-job-training (OJT) is a type of skill development where a worker learns how to do the work through hands-on experience. This is in contrast to skill formation that is purely cognitive or perceptual. OJT generally gives the trainee the opportunity to work in the same place and with the same equipment that will be used regularly which can make it an efficient approach to learning new things.1 It aims to provide the future employees the opportunity to expand their horizons in terms of skills in a particular field. While gaining hands-on experiences, step by step, the adeptness of the trainees may be enhanced.

OJT is very beneficial for the students. It is a preparation for them to face the corporate world. This academic curriculum may be paid or unpaid. The agency, which you were assigned in, provides venue for interns to test out the theories learned in the classroom. Application seems like a connector between the lecture room and the workplace. Through this academic program of our college department and the tasks that were given by a certain agency, our level of proficiency probably had an improvement.

The researcher sought information about the course description of internship in Belmont University (one of the universities in United States of America) through searching in the internet. These are for the students who were taking the course of Media Studies.

MDS 4900. Journalism Internship (3-6). On-the-job training in a communication organization. Student assignments will be consistent with vocational objectives. Normally taken during senior year. May be taken up to six...