Denied internship, Hyderabad lad whips up a startup

HYDERABAD: After several unsuccessful attempts at getting an internship in the third year of engineering, city lad Tharun Kumar Vulli has launched a startup to provide free training to students and help them find suitable internship opportunities with corporates.
Tharun said students, especially from tier-2 and tier-3 colleges, are struggling to get internships and placements and added that his startup, Sixinterns, aims to help such students.
“I failed to get any internship in the second semester of third year. That’s when I realised how hard it is to get an internship and decided to start my own firm,” the final year engineering student said. He said that in the last year his startup had helped over 5,000 students fetch paid internships.
A student of Lovely Professional University, Tharun said that along with brushing up technical skills of a student, they also train them in soft skills on a case-to-case basis. The firm is not just helping engineering students, but others as well as they cater to auditing, marketing, data entry, among other firms. Several of their interns said to have performed exceedingly well leading to pre-placement offers from companies. “Training is provided by our staff, who studied at IITs, NITs or other top colleges,” he said.
Explaining his business model, the 21-year-old said that his firm has ties with corporates and connects students with them after providing required training.
“Our firm also observes interns as we have several ongoing projects. We take projects from big firms and get the work completed by interns. The money we get paid is shared with interns,” he said and added that an intern gets paid a minimum of Rs 8, 000 at their firm.
Tharun said his firm also trained the less fortunate and uneducated, who have no computer knowledge, and helped them in getting placed in voice processing, customer support, and other related roles.
Till now, Tharun has collaborated with around 15 MNCs and was training over 10,000 students to hone their professional skills.