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Develop an Internship

Internships provide opportunities for students to gain experience in their field, determine if they have an interest in a particular career, create a network of contacts, or gain school credit. For companies, internships offer your organization many benefits as well from extending your recruiting process allowing you to preview talent while undergraduate students are completing their bachelor’s degrees to working with MBA interns to tackle more strategic level projects that often get sidelined due to lean organizations or unexpected critical issues that monopolize your senior management team’s attention.

The Eberhardt School can work with your management to conceive of and design internship opportunities that can help your company achieve key goals while giving a student an opportunity to put classroom training and learning into practice solving real business issues.

Designing a Great Internship - Suggestions for Employers

The following suggestions are offered to help create an effective internship experience. One or more of these recommendations may work for your internship program.

  • Design the internship experience around a project to be completed, rather than daily tasks.
  • Plan for interaction between all levels of staff and management with the intern.
  • Orient the intern to the site including appropriate attire, reporting structure, work space, and time management.
  • Acquaint the intern with hiring managers in areas of professional interest to the student.
  • Create opportunities for the intern to interact socially with other interns or full-time employees to develop comfortable workplace relationships.
  • Provide the intern access to training that increases their job-related skills as part of their responsibilities.
  • Give the intern opportunities to create a portfolio of work materials to demonstrate their accomplishments.
  • Encourage the intern to develop a network of professional contacts within the company.

We’d like to meet with you to discuss your company’s opportunities for internship development. Please contact us today to schedule a visit to your office.