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.
Click here for more information and to order.
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.
Click here to download the Internship Market Research Study.
2011 ERC/NOCHE Intern & Recent Grad Pay Rates and Practices Survey
Recognizing that interns and new graduates are critical to developing a pipeline of talent for Northeast Ohio, ERC and NOCHE have once again collaborated to gather information from local employers about their intern and recent graduate employment practices. Local organizations were invited to complete the survey between March 15 and April 8, 2011. The survey, published in May of 2011, reports important data from 102 organizations. These data are reported by organizational size and industry. Internship pay rate data is reported for seven positions and broken out by non-manufacturing and manufacturing industries. Recent graduate starting salaries are reported for 10 types of college degrees.
Click here to download the survey results.
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. To read an article on the value of interns for entrepreneurs click the image to the left.
Click here for information on NOCHE's 2011 Entrepreneurial Internship Program.
