{"id":39360,"date":"2013-09-18T11:41:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39360"},"modified":"2013-09-18T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:53:23","slug":"btvi-prepares-students-for-internships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/btvi-prepares-students-for-internships","title":{"rendered":"BTVI Prepares Students for Internships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39361\" title=\"btvi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/btvi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/btvi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/btvi-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/btvi-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students in their final semester at The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) are preparing to culminate the theory learned with a four-week intense internship.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent internship seminar organized by the Students Affairs Department, BTVI Career Services Officer, Jessica Murray, noted that the students are expected to exude service excellence, with work ethics, presentation and deportment being key.<\/p>\n<p>The 30 interns will each work for 40 hours a week, amounting to 160 hours for the four weeks.\u00a0 They will receive professional experience at various organizations ranging from educational facilities to electronics and air conditioning companies and even as far as at Morton Salt in Inagua. They will have the opportunity to gain additional competencies, network and possibly secure jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Murray encouraged the students to be professional at all times while interning.\u00a0 \u201cYou must be\u00a0 open to learning and be quality candidates\u00a0 as\u00a0 it is possible to secure future employment with the company.\u00a0 You must leave a good impression with the internship host,\u201d she underscored.<\/p>\n<p>Before the internship comes to an end, BTVI\u2019s Student Affairs Department will also hold a Resume` Building Workshop to further prepare the interns for the competitive workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas Technical &amp; Vocational Institute<br \/>\nREADY FOR INTERNSHIP &#8211; Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute\u2019s (BTVI) Career Services Officer, Jessica Murray, speaks to three of the students preparing for a four-week internship.\u00a0 From left to right are: Jade Sands, Air conditioning; Mrs. Murray; Javano Johnson, Electrical Installation and Dariel Gibson, Business Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in their final semester at The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) are preparing to culminate the theory learned with a four-week intense internship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[1782,195,296],"class_list":["post-39360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-careers","tag-school","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}