1. PRACTICAL TRAINING ORIENTATION College of Computer and Information Sciences King Saud University Information Technology Committee Members: Hanan Ali Tamimi (Head) Maha AL Sayari Training Unit : Ms. Nawal Al FIfi Ms. Ohoud Al Mohana (6T142)
2016

2. 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 2

3. What is The Practical Training
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 year prior to her graduation
A student is required to complete 90 credit hours to register for the practical training

4. What is The Practical Training
In addition the following courses should be taken by the student:
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)
Attend workshops package that will be announced later in the blog ( 10 grades from final grade)
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- few seats for each department in college )
Register for seminar

5. BENEFITS AND GOALS

6. 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 6

7. Benefits and Goals
You get opportunity to link real world problems to your university education
Practical
Training
University
Education
Real World
Problems
Software related
Hardware related
Configuration related
Administrative
Management related ….
Information Technology
Curriculum 7 7 7

8. Benefits and Goals a Good Job
You get out-of-university contacts and references
a Good Job
Your skills, abilities,
knowledge, and attitude
Practical
training
University
Education
Practical training can be another step that helps you to get a good Job after graduation. 8 8

9. 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. 9

10. Position Allocation Requirements
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 training unit
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)

11. 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 11 11

12. Paperwork and Schedule

13. Paperwork
Your-List
Visit Training Unit to get contact information company/institution offered by college (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 ( site)

15. Paperwork
KSU-List
For announced places(few) ,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 and pass the interview – DONE
Otherwise, the student has to reapply for YOUR-LIST

16. Schedule of Deadlines Your-List :
Student has trials to search for a place starting from Today 2 January ,2017 until ( end of 6th week -2nd semester)
موعد التدريب : بـ 8 أسابيع
بعد رمضان : الأحد 8 شوال 1438 هـ الموافق 2 يوليو الخميس 2 ذو الحجة 1438 هـ الموافق 24 أغسطس 2017

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