INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL TRAINING

I'm Aiman Abdul Razak and currently I am completing my Diploma in Wood Based Technology program at Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah Alam.

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah

Persiaran Usahawan, Seksyen U1, 40150 Shah Alam,

Selangor, Malaysia.

One of the requirement of this diploma is going through the Industrial Training for 5 months. Before starting the training, we have to choose which company you wanted to enroll for the industrial training. As for this course, there's actually more opportunities and places that we can apply to. May it be in the government sector or the private sector.


These are some of the factors that I considered before starting my training:

1. Choose which area of 'job' that you want to do or focus or learn more during the training      (i.e: designing, administration, forestry, production and etc).                                                      
2. Where you want to do the training:

              a) Think about where you going to stay (family or rent)

              b) Budget needed during your stay (not needed if you are planning to stay near your family)

              c) Transportation to workplace. 

              d) Estimation of time to travel to workplace. (traffic, travel distance)

              e) Workplace surrounding.

      3.   Additional benefit (can be inquire from the company via Resume):

              a) Allowance
              b) Place to stay
              c) Transportation availability

My final decision had brought me to chose Venture Ideal Renovation Sdn. Bhd. The reasons are that I wanted to learn something out of the syllabus familiarity. By joining VIR, I am going to learn to adapt to new environment, new tasks and gain experience through this training and I also would like to learn more about the designing world of furniture. They also offered to provide allowance during the training, hence another additional factor of why I chose VIR.


The purpose of going through the Industrial Training is to experience and understand real life situations in industrial organizations and their related environments and accelerating the learning process of how student's knowledge could be used in a realistic way. In addition to that, the training also makes one understand the formal and informal relationships in an industrial organization so as to promote acquired 'hands-on' knowledge in the working environment.

Industrial training also provides a systemic introduction to the ways of industry and developing talents and attitudes, so that one can understand how Human Resource Development works. Moreover, student can relate to and widen the skills that have been learnt while being in university/ Politeknik/ vocational college. Industrial training also exposes the students to the real career world and accustoms them to an organizational structure, business operation and administrative functions.

Furthermore, students implement what the have learned and learn more throughout this training.. Besides, students can also gain experience to select the optimal solution in handling a situation. During industrial training, students can learn the accepted safety practices in industry.


(Adapted from http://syaifulaziminternship2013.blogspot.my/2013/03/objectives-of-industrial-training.html post titled OBJECTIVE OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING)