G400 Computer Science : Pursuing a Technical or Engineering Study

1. An introduction to the topic and a summary of the approach to skills development in the case study and identification of the benefits of the scheme for the organisation itself and the workers involved. 

 

2. A ‘findings’ section in which you will present an overview of the approach you have used to find and gather information relating to career & skills development within the organisation. State the topic clearly and then summarise what you have found out, referencing it clearly using an appropriate (to your subject) referencing system. As far as possible you should try to include a variety of sources (not just web pages).

3. Write a conclusion that pulls together the main threads of your topic and compile a list of references using an appropriate (to your subject) referencing system. this does not include your list of references)

Introduction:

Students pursuing a technical or engineering study are most likely to end up seeking opportunities to get into the technical world. The main idea that circulates around the technology aspirants is that getting the effective opportunity that can open gates to the technical career growth; students look for jobs that can provide them enough knowledge that will help them tackle challenges and also, there should be sufficient growth opportunities, as these growth scopes attract aspiring students more.

Tending to all the possible requirements of a technical career, Google Inc. is one of the ultimate destinations for students from technology background. Google provides efficient training and development programs to help fresh graduates find the jobs that suit them best. When a student or a graduate is hired by the firm, the development programs will help the individual explore the possibilities and potentials within (Careers.google.com, 2017). Through the training arrangements, Google helps an employee understand the problem solving approaches better.

There are abundant opportunities for the growth of an employee. At Google, an employee is presented with various scopes and positions available that value experience and dedication. Gaining experience will present employees to be moved to specific job roles with high responsibilities.

Google has always offered excellent internship programs to help students all over the world take the first step to an outstanding career track (Careers.google.com, 2017). The company also offers sponsored programs that include coding competitions to find productive coders, summer programs, residency programs etc.

Google Internships:

Google provides various internship programs that are of immense help for the people who aspire to begin their careers in technology industry (Maertz Jr, Stoeberl and Marks 2014). While in the internship period, people will be exposed to various trainings to make them understand the problems that users go through and they will have to come up with ideas to effectively reduce problems in the services (Carter et al. 2016). The problem solving characteristics are developed at an early stage during the internship.  

Software Engineering:

It is the field where a broad variety of skills are required to train and develop. This category of internship is available all over the globe for people who may be undergraduate or graduate or PhD candidates (Ghaderi et al. 2015). This internship category specifies in developing skills to tackle intensive challenges.

Engineering Practicum:

Google provides training for undergraduate students who are pursuing their study (Yee, Abdullah and Nawi 2017). These students are presented with great opportunities to display their passion by tackling engineering problems.

Summer Trainee Engineering Program:

This is the internship program devised to provide excellent problem tackling tasks for students who are not in North America (Barron et al. 2015). With the help of this program, students from different regions can get a chance to test their abilities.

User Experience Program:

People with essential experience in the fields valued by Google are welcome to join Google by means of this internship program (Ghaderi et al. 2015). People who have worked in different fields can have several valuable qualities such as leadership, management etc. Google offers an internship program for these people to enhance their skill and utilize them in helping Google provide excellent service to its users.

Internship for Hardware Engineering: 

Students from the technical background who are interested in working with hardware can avail this internship program. Students will be provided with excellent tasks like designing networks and physical handling of the technologies involved in the company (Ghaderi et al. 2015). This will help aspiring students grow at a rapid rate in order to achieve their goals.

Google Sponsored Programs:

To address career growth and skill development, Google offers several sponsored programs. These programs are effectively designed to bring out the potentials in employees (Perna et al. 2015). Students studying in the colleges are approached with coding programs online to hone their skills and to inspire them. The various programs are given below:

Information Technology Residency Program:

ITRP provides the means to individuals to boost their career in technology industry. Working in the technical support field, it can broaden an employee’s knowledge, which will help in pursuing IT career in future.  

Summer Institute for Computer Science:

Students who have recently graduated from school and want to work at a technical firm can be inspired by attending summer schooling for computer science (Perna et al. 2015). It will help them in a great deal as in exploring their technical skills, testing their reasoning power, evaluating their approach to problem resolution etc. It will give them an overview of the industrial working structure.

Engineering Residency:

Engineering Residency is an effective program for the college students looking to get into the IT industry soon. The students will be given a few engineering problems and students will get to evaluate their skills in problem solving by presenting their approaches to them.

The AI Program:

People having experience in computer science can be presented with the opportunity to undergo this AI program. Research teams will be arranged including the PhD candidates of mathematics, statistics and computer science (Lu et al. 2017). This program is allocated duration of one year and it will include thorough research, which will prove to be an excellent opportunity for career growth.

Summer of Code:

Summer of Code is an outstanding sponsored program by Google, which invites students from various universities to join teams under several chosen mentors and work on projects that are open-source in nature.

Conclusion: 

For students pursuing engineering and technology as major and for the employees who are experienced in technology field are welcome at Google. Google is one of the most successful software giants that offer great training and development programs. At Google, attractive internship programs are offered to help aspiring students figure out their goals and take proper step towards starting their careers. Internship programs are held all over the world to elucidate the knowledge of the student community in approaching the IT problems. The sponsored programs arranged by Google are quite excellent as they cover different categories of development and growth opportunities to help employees enhance their career progress. Therefore, the strategy and planning adapted by Google are extremely accurate in delivering the correct preview of the IT industry to inspire the future.

Reference:

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Ghaderi, I., Manji, F., Park, Y.S., Juul, D., Ott, M., Harris, I. and Farrell, T.M., 2015. Technical skills assessment toolbox: a review using the unitary framework of validity. Annals of surgery, 261(2), pp.251-262.

Lu, H., Li, Y., Chen, M., Kim, H. and Serikawa, S., 2017. Brain Intelligence: Go Beyond Artificial Intelligence. arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.01040.

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Perna, L.W., Orosz, K., Jumakulov, Z., Kishkentayeva, M. and Ashirbekov, A., 2015. Understanding the programmatic and contextual forces that influence participation in a government-sponsored international student-mobility program. Higher Education, 69(2), pp.173-188.

Yee, B.C., Abdullah, T. and Nawi, A.M., 2017, April. A Reflective Practice of Using Digital Storytelling During Teaching Practicum. In International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology (pp. 708-715). Springer, Cham.