Industrial Training Procedure & Information

Students are required to read and be familiar with all of the following procedure, rules and regulations. This is the students' LEGAL responsibility to know them!

Pre Registration Process

1.Things you need to know before registration

• You have to start the pre-register process one semester before the actual industrial training semester.

• For example, if you plan to go for your industrial training during Oct 2011 semester, you need to start the pre-registration process in May 2011 semester.

• The whole pre-registration process will take one semester, and there are four stages in the process: 
• Looking for internship job placement. 
  
• Interview & acceptance of job placement 
• Submission of internship documents to FICT (please refer to WBLE)
• Preparation to go out

2.Submission of FICT Pre-registration form

Form: Please refer to the FICT Pre-registration form in your FICT Industrial Training Portal.

• Eligibility of industrial training: 
•  Accumulated 54 credits including transferred credits from other institution.
•  Accumulated 45 credits excluding current semester. 
•  Advisable to go for industrial training AFTER year 2 trimester 2. 
• Not under probation status during the pre-registration semester. 
• CGPA >= 2.0

• Download and fill in the pre-registration form at 
• FICT Pre-registration form
• before week 15 of long semester (Jan and Jun semester) 
• before week 8 of short semester (Oct semester) 

• In this stage:
• DO NOT submit your pre-registration form in last minutes or after your final exam. FICT reserves the right to deny your industrial training if you perform the above act.
• DO NOT go to industrial training "quietly" without pre-registration. This "quiet act" of yours will be your part-time job, not industrial training. 
• All students MUST fulfill the whole duration of the industrial training dates posted by FICT. About 19 weeks in long semesters, 3 full months in short semester 
• Any student tries to deviate from the posted dates, OR "create" their own date (less than 19 weeks or 3 months), without seeking approval from the faculty will result in failure. 
• DO NOT compare the posted period of industrial training and procedure with other faculties. 
• FICT reserves the rights to deny students from going to Industrial training if the particular students do not fulfill the conditions to go for industrial training.
  

For those students who fulfill the above conditions, and still insist to go for industrial training, please do the following:

Probation Status Issues:

3.Looking for Internship job placement

If your company requests for supporting letter for industrial training, the "Request Form" is created from FICT Industrial Training Portal, under "Request for Supporting Letter for Industrial Training".

(Company may require you to prove that you are a UTAR student looking for internship placement. Submit this form to FICT to obtain a supporting letter, 3 business days to process).

(Some company may request this supporting letter after your first day of internship, to be filed as a legal document in human resource dept. Submit the same form to FICT.) 

Sample of the supporting letter without FICT letterhead

• Valid job placements:
• Any IT technical job, e.g: Programming, Database, Linux, Web page, Server, PC technical support, Networking, etc. 
• No sales & marketing job, e.g: direct selling, selling handphone, selling PC, etc. 
• If students are found that they are doing non-IT related job, this may lead to a failure in industrial training.

• There are two ways to look for job.
• Self placement (look for placement yourself) 
• UTAR placement (UTAR assigned)

• FICT highly encourage the students to learn to look for job placement themselves.
• Jobstreet 
• http://fict2.southeastasia.cloudapp.azure.com/Internship-Advertisements  
  
• WBLE (Industrial Training, Job Posting Link) 

• Send email and resume (sample) to potential employer.
• Indicate clearly your industrial training period (start date & end date) to your company when you apply for the placement.

• Interview & acceptance of job placement.
• Be professional during the interview.
• Please accept the offer that you have promised to the company. DON'T promise one company and go to another company, either verbally, or by email. This is a serious ethical issue. Any complaint from company will result in your suspension of industrial training.
  
• Worse, if you have SIGNED an offer letter of a company, but later tell the company that you will join another company instead (because of better pay or nearer to your home), this will constitude a serious case of "breach of contract". Students who do this may incur LEGAL action from company, and definitely cause reputation damage to UTAR. UTAR will subject the student to disciplinary action.
  
• Advisable to accept the first job offer. If you have more than one internship offer at the same time, please accept one and inform other companies politely about your decline.
  
• Some companies may require you to prove that you are a UTAR student before interview or after interview. Kindly submit the "Request for Supporting Letter for Industrial Training" to the FICT FGO and you will obtain a supporting (or verification) letter (sample). Submit or show this letter to the companies who request it.
  

4.Preparation to go out

PLEASE read your offer letter carefully, regarding your working hours and job scope!

• Before you go out to industrial training, you are required to submit the following 7 documents to FICT completely (pre-registration form + academic transcript + company offer letter + letters of undertaking & indemnity):
• Pre-registration form (put your signature on the form)
• Academic transcript
• Your letter of offer (accepted and signed by you) from company (scanned copy, you keep the original) 
• Letter of Undertaking & Indemnity For UTAR Given By Student (download this from your Industrial Training Portal, and put your signature on the letter) 
• Letter of Undertaking & Indemnity For UTAR Given By Parent/ Guardian (download this from your Industrial Training Portal, and put your signature on the letter) 
• Letter of Indemnity & Undertaking For The Company Given By Student (download this from your Industrial Training Portal, and have the signature of your parents/guardian)
• Letter of Indemnity & Undertaking For The Company Given By Parent/ Guardian (download this from your Industrial Training Portal, and have the signature of your parents/guardian) 
• Please refer to WBLE for the deadline and method of submission.
• Failure to submit any of the required documents will result in FICT being unable to process and register your industrial training course.
  

• Please read your offer letter carefully. If there is any dispute with the company, the offer letter will be treated as a "legal evidence".

5.Rules for Placement (Taken from Industrial Training Manual section 5.2.1)

The discretion of whether or not to accept a student as an industrial trainee lies entirely with the company and not with the University. A student should prepare him/herself conversantly for the job interview, e.g. the company may test the student on his/her skills and knowledge of the relevant subject domains. 

Only one job placement per student. 

Students must accept the FIRST job offered to them. 

NO changing nor SWAPPING of jobs upon CONFIRMED placement without obtaining approval from their Faculty. 

All placements must be for FULL TIME work. Subject to expressed instruction by the Supervisor in Charge, students are not allowed to complete their assignment in places, times and tasks of high risk other than mutually and officially agreed and specified in advance by the University and the Company. 

NO job hopping. If a student wants to leave his/her current placement, he/she must provide justification to the Faculty and his/her company, and receive the approval from the faculty BEFORE he/she can leave his/her current placement. 

No working at close relative's company. All students are required to declare in the form in order to avoid conflict of interest. 

Payment by the company as the allowance for industrial trainees is encouraged, but not a requirement. 

Final placements will be decided by the Industrial Training Committee whether the students apply for their positions through the University or on their own.