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Fenox Venture Capital to Pay Unpaid Interns Back Wages

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 26, 2016 | Comments Off on Fenox Venture Capital to Pay Unpaid Interns Back Wages

  By Cat Zakrzewski A Silicon Valley venture capital firm has agreed to pay $331,269 in back wages after the U.S. Department of Labor found the company misclassified 56 workers as unpaid interns.   Investigators found Fenox Venture Capital had used the unpaid workers to screen startups for potential investments, send reports to Japanese investors […]

Interns Should Get More Out of Internships Than Employers?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 24, 2016 | Comments Off on Interns Should Get More Out of Internships Than Employers?

By Sandy Malone   I’m feeling a little nostalgic today as I put my fantastic summer intern Claire McCarthy on a plane back to finish her senior year at University of Arizona. Her partner-in-crime, Julia Steinly, left a couple days ago for University of Maryland, but she’s going to be interning this fall for our […]

Want to Recruit the Best Millennial Interns?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 22, 2016 | Comments Off on Want to Recruit the Best Millennial Interns?

  5 Tips for Recruiting The Best Millennials by Joel Goldstein   Millennials are the largest generation within the workforce and offer employers a set of skills unique to this age group; so knowing how to attract them to your company is essential. Forget about just posting a job description on different websites and waiting […]

Will You Be Able To Retain Millennial Interns?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 19, 2016 | Comments Off on Will You Be Able To Retain Millennial Interns?

  Why Millennials Have No Problem Quitting Their Jobs by Reuters It’s not about the money. Twenty-eight year old Margaret Davis was making nice money as a writer in the legal department of a big pharmaceutical company in New York.   She liked her coworkers and enjoyed the job on a day-to-day basis—except it was […]

Provide Adequate Work Space For Your Intern

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 17, 2016 | Comments Off on Provide Adequate Work Space For Your Intern

  Where your intern performs their work can affect how well they perform. Many university internship contracts require companies to provide an ‘appropriate’ work space. What does that really mean? Does that mean they must have a place to hang family photos? Does it mean they should have a desk that they don’t have to […]

Are Your Millennial Interns Happy at Work?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 15, 2016 | Comments Off on Are Your Millennial Interns Happy at Work?

 Why Are Millennials So Unhappy at Work?  Seventy-one percent of Millennials are disengaged at their jobs. That’s a big problem. An interesting phenomenon has developed in the generation born between the late ’70s and the mid-’90s, a group we now call Millennials. According to the Gallup Organization, Millennials are the least engaged generation at work–with […]

Are You Seeking Interns With Liberal Arts Degrees?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 12, 2016 | Comments Off on Are You Seeking Interns With Liberal Arts Degrees?

  As a professional who possesses a liberal arts degree and professor in a liberal arts university, I fully support the upward shift in the value that businesses and corporations are placing in liberal arts education. Here is an excerpt from the Fast Company article ‘Why Top CEOs Want Employees With Liberal Arts Degrees‘.   […]

What Explorers Can Teach Your Intern From Their Impossible Expeditions

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 10, 2016 | Comments Off on What Explorers Can Teach Your Intern From Their Impossible Expeditions

  9 Lessons Explorers Can Teach You From Their Impossible Expeditions By Adam Toren   The most successful explorers in the world have one thing in common: They aren’t afraid of failure. The fear of failure can easily overpower your ability to take action and secure opportunities. Here, 10 different explorers — both modern and […]

Do You Think Your Millennial Intern Is Lazy?

By Nicki Sanders | Feb 8, 2016 | Comments Off on Do You Think Your Millennial Intern Is Lazy?

  How ‘Lazy’ Millennials Are Transforming Hard Work By Ryan Jenkins Why Millennials are at the forefront of a new era of work ethic.   One of the most prominent strikes against the Millennial generation is their “poor work ethic.” I’d like to challenge the assumption that Millennials lack work ethic. Because how can we […]