Benefits to
Students
The
following are the benefits of SIWES to Students:
1. Learn to assume responsibility.
2. Gain knowledge and attitudes necessary for
successful programme.
3. Acquire good work habits.
4. Learn how to get along with fellow workers and
employers.
5. Develop personality and poise.
6. Earn necessary funds.
7. Realize the connection between on the job
production and wages.
8. Discover the relationship between education and
job success.
9. Explore the fields on which they feel their career
interest lie and determine whether or not these fields are suitable for them.
10. Broaden their knowledge for the occupational world
(Ihimekpen & Abiri, 1999).
Benefits to
the School
SIWES
is of benefit to the school in the various ways:
1. Provides an opportunity to relate academic
training to job requirements.
2. Utilize many community facilities and resources of
training purposes.
3. Increases the school ability to hold students in
school for a longer period of time.
4. Provide assistance in occupational guidance.
5. Enables the school to keep abreast of development
in the business and industrial world.
6. Provides a direct avenue through which the school
can meet community needs.
7. Develop good community school relations.
8. Acquaints employers with the work that can be
performed by young people who are trained in the school (Ihimekpen & Abiri,
1999).
Benefits to
the Employers
SIWES
benefits the employers in the following ways:
1. Provides a pool of part time workers from which to
select permanent employees at a later date.
2. Provides an opportunity for the employer to refine
and validate the company’s own training methods.
3. Provides the employers with employees who are
receiving additional training through related instruction at school training
desired but not warranted or possible on the job.
4. Serves as a training programme for prospective
employees of small business or industries.
Reduce turnover because the employees have
become adjusted to the job before they attempt full time employment (Ihimekpen
& Abiri, 1999).
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