Resources for Employers
Maximize Your ROI: Return on Intern Handbook
Having enough internships and helping students to complete them is not enough. The internships must be high quality and provide students with an experience that is positive. This handbook is an effort to help Northeast Ohio employers develop internship programs that will successfully fill their talent pipeline and drive retention of students in the region. It is a handbook, one that can be pulled out time and again to help you as you continually improve your internship program. An internship program is not something you create once and assume it will work into perpetuity. An internship requires – like any program that involves people – constant adjustment and development. Your program can always be better, and we hope you continue to work on it, using this handbook and corresponding workbook as a guide.
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2009 Internship Market Research Study
An internship study conducted by NOCHE reveals misperceptions and barriers that prevent some students from pursuing or completing an internship. The study, which was released in May 2009, highlights some of the strategies and opportunities that Northeast Ohio can embrace as it attempts to attract and retain a talented workforce in a competitive global market.
Funded by the Fenn Educational Fund of the Cleveland Foundation, the study sought to examine student populations, identify underserved and underrepresented segments, frame common barriers and misperceptions affecting internship participation, and develop key strategic options and hypotheses for initiatives that could improve student awareness of and participation in the internship process.
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2010 ERC/NOCHE Internship Pay Rates and Practices Survey
ERC and Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education (NOCHE) collaborated to gather information from Northeast Ohio employers about their internship employment practices. Local organizations were invited to complete the survey between March 30 and April 30, 2010. The survey, published in May of 2010, reports data from 118 organizations regarding their internship practices and pay rates. Internship practices data is reported by organizational size and industry. Internship pay rate data is reported for eight positions and broken out by non-manufacturing and manufacturing industries.
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Interns for Entrepreneurs
As a small employer, you know that internships are a good thing in principle, and you want to do what is smart for your organization. Yet internships may not be high on the priority list. Your gut says that hiring an intern will take a lot of time – time away from other, more important things. And money is tight – how will you afford to pay interns? If you do pay them, will you actually be able to develop them into a revenue producing role? Interns aren't just for big corporations. Entrepreneurial companies across Northeast Ohio and elswhere have experienced great success with interns.
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