ANALYSIS
At OKTA,
Internships are a Win-Win
OKTA runs an internship program
because it benefits both students
and the company. As part of its corporate strategy, the company collaborates with higher education
institutions in this way. For the second year in a row, OKTA shares
its knowledge and experience with
students, making a significant contribution to their personal and professional development.
Students are recruited from 10
relevant university faculties, then
OKTA staff assess their enthusiasm,
ambition, as well as their desire
to learn and build their career.
Selected students accept a full-time
professional engagement that lasts
3 months, where the company provides transportation and meals, as well as
some additional financial
compensation. Most importantly, students are then
assigned a mentor, one of
OKTA’s department managers. Besides overseeing
and tutoring, the mentors
continuously monitor their
engagement and development of their performance
and skills.
“Speaking from experience, our mentors are
quite satisfied with students’ knowledge and
potential in the fields in
which they are interning. We strive to create
an atmosphere which will
enable interns to easily
adjust to our organizational
culture and be productive.
We want to transfer our
experience and expertise
to the interns via participation in
concrete projects and tasks that
are relevant to the company as
well as to their professional development. During the internship,
mentors continuously monitor the
professional progress of the interns
and educate, advise and support
them in their work. We believe
that this program helps students
develop their skills and gives them
self-confidence for their future professional challenges,” says Katerina Solevska, OKTA’s Human
Resources Manager.
In accordance with its corporate
social responsibility strategy, the
company continues to develop the
program both to increase its learning value to students, but also to
identify suitable candidates who
could join the OKTA team, when
the need arises. Through the program, company management has
met a significant number of great
students with the potential to suit
company needs; four of whom are
already part of the OKTA team!
Monika Uler Zefikj is one of the
interns who, after completing the
program, accepted a job offer at
OKTA. Monica’s