Offshoring Study trip … continued… why not experience it?
A quick follow-up on my blog on “Offshoring Study trip.” An aspect missed out is the InStep, which is Infosys’ global internship program. The program gives students an opportunity to experience the workings of offshoring first hand.
A recent press release quotes Josh Bornstein, alumnus of Claremont McKenna College “While applying for full time jobs, my internship experience in India differentiated my resume from other candidates. Infosys gave me an unmatched opportunity to grow and gain expertise in an international business climate. Acquiring experience with a world-class company like Infosys has helped me to adapt to the changing global environment and has given me an edge over my peers. This has held me in good stead in my career at Footprint Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund in India.”
A parallel to this is the “Campus Connect” program. I had a pleasure of anchoring academicians for this during my stint in Bangalore a few years ago. A professor volunteered to helped my group design and validate a reference architecture framework that we were developing at the SETLabs. In case you are wondering, the internal checks and balances ensure that the interns or external participants work primarily on internal initiatives and not for paid projects for clients. This helps in a two-way knowledge sharing as our practitioners get grounded in the latest thinking from the academia and the academicians get insight to globalization at work.
