First Version of the Check out! Program is Successfully Completed for Engineering Students

July 1, 2019

The first version of the "Check Out!" program ended with a diploma-granting ceremony, including applauses and thanks. The aim of this activity is to provide students with professional tools in order to internationalize their professional careers in different areas of engineering.

The "Check Out: Improve your professional profile" program is boosted by the International Relations area of the Faculty of Engineering, whose purpose is to provide students with training tools for their professional profiles through four specific workshops and a role play activity that includes a job interview within an international approach.

Three students obtained the final diploma, after participating in all process stages. In this regard, Ramón Blasco, General Secretary of the Faculty of Engineering, commented on the fundamental role these training activities have, since USACH does not own a strong basis on international relations. “This is the first step of many more this Faculty takes in order to be validated as the real engineering faculty that trains global engineers”, he states.

On the other hand, the Mechanical Engineering graduate, Gabriel Villalobos, who conducted the workshop from the beginning, explains, "I think this is an interesting activity because it is focused on a basic but unknown area, such as developing a curriculum vitae or applying to any job position. After the simulation interview, I received a call for a real-life interview in the transnational company GHB and I felt very comfortable about it. So, this activity provided me with the tools that I was looking for.”

Eventually, the program would be develop for a second version; therefore, participants of the ceremony analyzed the potentiality and deficiencies the program had.

The challenges of the Check-out Program for a second version

Marie Magnier, International Mobility Assistant, says that one of the main challenges ahead is "to continue to provide students with information on mobility and internships, so they can be motivated and interested on living international and intercultural experiences”.

All the students who would like to internationalize their professional careers are invited to the second launch of the Check Out Program. From now on, to those who made it, we wish lots of success in their professional careers.