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12 Tips to Successfully Manage Your Intern By Melinda McCorkle Brunell With summer approaching, do you look at the coming onslaught of interns with both anticipation and dread? For every intern who worked out so well we hired them, many of us recall others who produced little of value or needed so much hand-holding […]
A Newbie’s Guide to Managing Interns Help make work life easier for you and your interns with these tips by Hannah Orenstein Before you had interns, you probably joked about needing one. It would be fantastic to have an eager college student take on the dullest parts of your job, fetch you coffee […]
For more than college credit: Intern program gives real-world experience in community building By Karl Stauber On May 22, Danville Regional Foundation will welcome its next cohort of interns as they join us for the summer. We’ve been fortunate since 2009 to bring almost 100 bright, talented young people to the Dan River […]
Whitman summer internship grants benefit students, community Gina Ohnstad, Director of Media and Public Relations at Whitman College At Whitman College, Monday is the last day of classes, finals are right around the corner and students are putting the finishing touches on their summer plans. For some students, those plans include interning for […]
Paid or unpaid? The internship question By Ben Hoagland College students have undoubtedly heard it before; internships serve as valuable experiences for students to progress into their professional careers. For many students at St. Michael’s, internships are irreplaceable experiences filled with personal and professional development. But for others, internships can come at a financial […]
It’s that time of the year when college students will come knocking looking for a job or an internship. Depending on the nature of an organization’s business, an unpaid intern might be a great idea. But before organizations start engaging summer intern help, they need to make sure that they are complying with the Department of […]
6 Ways to Be a Great Boss to Your Intern By Betsy Aimee Looking back on my early career, I realize that many of the skills that have helped me stay employed in the “real world” didn’t come from what I learned in lectures, but from the internships I pursued while I was […]
May is National Foster Care Month, a month set aside to acknowledge foster parents, family members, volunteers, mentors, policymakers, child welfare professionals, and other members of the community who help children and youth in foster care find permanent homes and connections. National Foster Care Month, is a time for foster care advocates to renew […]
The Olsen Twins Just Settled a Lawsuit With Dozens of Former Unpaid Interns The lead plaintiff claims she was hospitalized for dehydration because of her job with their fashion line. By Kate Storey Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s company moved to settle a class-action lawsuit with 185 former unpaid interns out of court this […]