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College
Scholarship Program
Learning Life Lessons: Metrobank
Foundation Provides Summer
Internship Program to Scholars
June 22, 2006
So many factors come into play to
ensure the future and survival of
today’s youth in the real world;
education is one of them. But true
learning goes beyond the mere
classroom discussions and lectures.
The Summer Internship Program for
Scholars or SIPS is a project of the
Foundation’s College Scholarship
Program to promote volunteerism by
giving the scholars the opportunity
to become interns in the Foundation,
the Bank or Manila Doctors Hospital.
It also familiarizes them with the
organizations giving them a chance
for future employment.
Although not all were given
assignments related to their course,
the scholars were exposed to the
different areas of the Foundation
and its partners. SIPS gave them the
opportunity to improve on the
necessary skills needed in the
workplace and strengthened their
views on social responsibility.
Not your
Usual Summer School
Jonas J. Cruz is an AB Philosophy
and Human Resource Development
student at the San Beda College. He
was assigned to the HR department of
the Manila Doctors Hospital. Not
only was he given tasks that were
helpful to his course, he was also
given the opportunity to attend
seminars that discussed the
rudiments of Human Resources.
“I have seen the essential
responsibility of management to see
to it that they reach out to all
employees, establishing a familial
work place without compromising the
corporate professionalism especially
in decision-makings the management
ought to do,” he says.
Reflecting on his internship, Jonas
realized that he has gained a better
understanding in human resource
management and elaborates that “the
vital connection between the company
and the employees should be kept
intact at all times so as not to
compromise the quality of service
the institution renders to the
client.”
Reality
Bytes
Jonas readily admits that he
couldn’t have realized these things
if he did not undergo the summer
internship program. “It has now gone
beyond helping scholars. It has
taken a great step in teaching young
minds the realities in the corporate
world, realities of the real world
beyond the walls of the academic
institutions.“
Perhaps the greatest lessons in life
are really the ones that are gained
through experience. After all,
growth is reached when the young
comes face to face with everyday
life and reality.
“I have enough reasons to believe
that not even the best university in
the world could teach these lessons
in life except experience,” Jonas
adds insightfully. “That experience
is what Metrobank Foundation just
allowed me to gain.” |
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