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Cosmopoint grads gain valuable exposure
Eleven graduates of Cosmopoint International College of Technology (CICT) completed a four-month apprenticeship, gaining valuable experience doing work for major American corporations like LA Times, Houston Chronicle, Giant Eagle and Walmart.
During the stint, the IT diploma students were exposed to new and sophisticated software, some of which are the most advanced in the web-based publishing industry.
They were also offered jobs right away by the organisations where they were posted. The industrial training was held at P2i Online Sdn Bhd, a Multimedia Super Corridor or MSC-status company located at Cyberjaya. P2i Online is the online division of P2i Newspapers LLC which also has offices in Pennsylvania and California, United States of America.
P2i’s core business is converting text and graphics from print to interactive web products for its clientele, which also includes major American companies such as ShopLocal, SRDS, McClatchy, Grocery Shopping Networks and Newsday. P2i’s diverse network of customers, end-users, associates and affiliates span the publishing industry of North America and Europe.
Four of the students, Muhammad Luqmannulhakim Onn, Andirizal Rusli, Bustami Ibrahim Pardi and Mohd Aleffee Mat were tasked by P2i to handle work for corporations such as the Giant Eagle, Walmart and other retail chains, as well as several dailies.
The students had the opportunity to work on documents, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and catalogues of some of the largest business-to-business, consumer, publishing and media companies in North America and Europe.
"We helped to convert contents intended for print products into dynamic revenue generating websites. These in turn enabled P2i’s customers such as newspapers, publishers and content aggregators to extend the reach of their contents to the general public," said Luqmannulhakim.
While the four were well trained in the use of web development applications such as Adobe Dreamweaver, the tasks given to the four students at P2i was quite challenging.
"We got to learn how to use the latest software such as Hotspom4," said Andirizal.
They said they were fortunate to be studying with Cosmopoint because of the institution’s close relationship with leading industry players, which made it easy for them to apply theories studied to real-life office practice.
"We are really thrilled to be offered jobs at P2i right after our industrial training, but we had to decline the offers as we wanted to pursue our Bachelor’s Degree," said Bustami.
Updated: 01:03PM Tue, The Sun, 03 Nov 2009
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