Internalship Program
In today's workplace, the landscape is a fast-paced, competitive environment, and today's employees are frequently on the hunt for growth opportunities. Employees consistently cite career development as critical to their satisfaction with an organization, and the lack of it is a crucial reason they change jobs. For today's workforce, career development is about moving forward and not just upward, but linear climbs. It's about opportunities to expand their skillsets and translate those skills into new opportunities.
Akamai, being a forward-thinking company, continues to develop an inclusive and diverse workforce that makes Akamai a great place to work. Internalship is a program that allows employees to explore learning opportunities outside of their regular jobs within the company. The program provides employees with rich developmental opportunities within the organization while pairing them up with a mentor.
Internalship enables employees to develop skills both non-technical and technical like Python, Solution Engineering, and Customer influencing skills, directly impacting their current role. It also helps them build skills that put them one step closer to their aspirations. It is with these kinds of developmental opportunities Akamai ensures to remain invested in employees' future.
Example of how it works: A Software developer interested in learning pre-sales can opt for an existing opportunity through this program for 3-6 months.
Host team opens a learning opportunity carving out a task to execute
The team publishes the requirement on our internal portal, inviting applications
Host team vets applications to understand their motivation and capabilities to learn
A selected employee gets to spend 20% of the time with the host team and learn new skills for 3-6 months
Since the program's inception, we have seen over 50 employees completing the program, which has significantly impacted their career goals. Participation at this scale has proven that this program is playing a very crucial role in transforming careers. This program's main objective is to allow our employees to assume greater ownership for their career growth and path.
Here is what one of our Technical Solutions Engineer Swati Rao had to say about the program: "The Internalship program is an excellent opportunity for individuals to experience and explore things out-of-the-box, which allows us to broaden our horizons and strive to learn more. Overall, I can vouch for this program since it provided the exposure to learn new things and grow technically and socially within Akamai. I would recommend folks to use this opportunity to add to their skill set."
