The Sunday Mail
Patson Chapeyama
Chinhori University Student
Chinhoyi University of Technology has set up an Entrepreneurship Centre which equips and nurtures student entrepreneurs by providing them with practical skills beyond their academic curriculum as well as funding their ventures. InternshipAfrica-Zimbabwe (IAZ) is one of the success stories of Chinhoyi University of Technology Entrepreneurship Centre (CUTEC). (IAZ) is a fully registered, ground breaking and innovative business organisation which affords opportunities for University students Nationwide to meet with their future employers, assisting them to secure their industrial attachment placements as well as career and professional grooming.
The company has been operating for more than year to date and has managed to secure industrial attachment placements for more than 1200 students from various higher and tertiary institutions nationwide. The company scooped a golden trophy at the SMES International Expo 2015, held at Rainbow towers, being the youngest Entrepreneur.
InternshipAfrica-Zimbabwe successfully launches Intern platinum Package at this year, 57th edition of Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF). An array of blue chip and small companies drawn from across all economic sectors witnessed the launch. Amongst of the organisations which participated are Dairibord Zimbabwe , ZESA Holdings, ZINWA etc. (IAZ) marketing manager Law Chidziva said the new service Intern Platinum will help students by facilitating their Industrial attachment placements in time. Apart from that it will also professionally incubate students by providing them with necessary knowledge of the industry practice before they are placed for attachment. “We realised that students are going to attachment without basic professional knowledge and it becomes a challenge to the employee so we decided to add to our service offering professional grooming. What we do is we conduct workshops where we teach and equip platinum members with professional etiquette.” The package is meant to improve productivity to the industry at the same time harnessing student’s potential as well as bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and the real professional environment.
There are quantum reasons why the industry should make IAZ their own bus stop for human capital development and amongst of these are:
You will get well groomed students that will meet the organizational future human resource needs.
Students will quickly blend within your organization since they are groomed in relation to the line of the industry of their choice.
No recruitment cost involved and less time taken to fill in any arising vacancy.
Human resource managers can recruit interns at any time and can easily get students from university of their choice and with specific grades.
Enhanced productivity and less wastage of resources.
