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How to Start an Intern Program at Your Workplace

Learn the benefits of launching an intern program, including offloading work, creating a hiring pool, and forming technology teams. Discover how to start, hire, train, and manage interns effectively to maximize their value. Dive into hiring requirements, training methods, requirements, and more.

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How to Start an Intern Program at Your Workplace

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  1. How to Start an Intern Program at Your Workplace

  2. Why an Intern Program? • Intern Programs ->High visibility with good opportunity for success • Offload work from full-time employees • Perform large scale tasks inexpensively • Develop a hiring pool • Create a technology team that you lead

  3. Where Do You Start? • Develop and present list of benefits for management • Determine what work interns would be assigned • Cost benefit of work off-loaded from full time staff members • Include concept of a trained pool or resources to hire • Include work that cannot be accomplished with current head-count • Plan your program to start 1 month after career fairs

  4. Where Do I Hire Interns? • College Career Fairs • Utah Valley University • University of Utah • Brigham Young University • Job Boards • College Information Sessions • Networking with Employees • Recruiting Agencies

  5. What are My Hiring Requirements? • STEM Majors – Comp Sci, Math, Chemistry, Physics, EE, IT • Must have foundational training or basic computer aptitude • Sophomore/Juniors and beyond

  6. What do Interns Want? • $$ Current Tech Market pays $14 - $21 • Training\Challenge\Job Skills • Flexible schedules to work around assignments, papers, finals, college life • Work hours – 20 to 40 hours per week • To Be Valuable • Interesting work

  7. What do Interns Provide? • 20-40 hours/week • Prioritize work – reducing workload from senior staff members • Repetitive tasks • Creative Energy • Many hands/Many eyes

  8. What Interns are NOT Good For… • Washing cars – non work related tasks • Making your coffee – menial tasks • Busy Work Internships succeed when they are staffed with motivated and integral members of the team.

  9. How Do I Train Interns? • Pair with team members for 15 minute training sessions • Mentoring: co-locate interns with other interns and team members • Wiki – Basic Training • Basic knowledgebase • Videos, books, ebooks, trade journals • Links to online training • Code Reviews • Intern led and Staff led.

  10. How NOT to Train an Intern • Expect people to learn by osmosis • Read existing code and figure it out • Learn by searching the internet (with no direction) • Simply shadow the experts

  11. How Do I Manage an Internship? • Written department policy • Hourly employees – they need to record their own hours and schedules • Place to sit • Own computer (not shared) • To-do or work list of daily responsibilities/tasks • Join staff meetings – always treated as a member of the staff

  12. How Long Do Interns Last? • 6-9 Months -> Good • 2 Years -> Possible • Seniors may leave for full time work while still in their senior year • Graduates may leave for full time work or grad school

  13. Hiring Pool • As interns near graduation, seek out those who are interested in a career. • Speak to management - let them know who is available • Keep track of how many interns receive full-time offers from your company – recruiting stat

  14. Resources • UVU • Career Fair: http://www.uvu.edu/cdc/events/ • Job Board: https://www.myinterfase.com/uvu/employer/ • University of Utah • Career Fair: • http://careers.utah.edu/employers/career-fairs/career-fair-info.php • Job Board: • http://careers.utah.edu/employers/getting-started/ucareerpath-employer.php • BYU • Career Fair: https://byu-csm.symplicity.com/ • BYU Job Board: https://byu-csm.symplicity.com/ • Computer Science Job Board: https://cs.byu.edu/jobs

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