Dressing Up Your Internship Program By Rebecca Cenni-Leventhal, Atrium With internship programs being offered year-round, whether you are an apparel company planning to welcome your first group of interns or are thinking through ways to optimize your well-established program, this is a perfect time to solidify your process and procedures. As a veteran […]
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How do you fill vacancies sooner, spend less time onboarding and retraining, and increase employee retention? With a strong internship program. A strong internship program allows businesses to have a continuous pool of committed, qualified candidates. A strong internship program requires a strong internship manager. 25 Characteristics of a Great Internship Manager: Vision
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“Together Soaring To New Business Heights” Marvelous Managers, Successful Supervisors, is a free closed Facebook group created to help managers/supervisors/entrepreneurs/small business owners enhance their management skills and grow their businesses. Marvelous Managers, Successful Supervisors is hosted by me – Nicki Sanders. I’m a social worker and entrepreneur with a passion for teaching and community building.
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A motto that I live by is “when you learn, teach and why you teach, learn’. When You Learn, Teach I am a strong proponent of service and ‘paying it forward’. Everyone needs a little help. We all have a story to tell and have learned lessons that can help or inspire others.
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One of my favorite television channels is Hallmark Channel. Hallmark channel is one of my favorite television channels for two reasons; (1) Christmas movies and (2) movies with happy endings. As a human services professional, I have been exposed to a lot of trauma, disappointment, and injustice. When I turn on my television I
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I am frequently asked what tasks an intern can perform. Some people only believe that intern should do grunt work or menial labor. Other people practically want to turn over the reigns to the company. Although all companies and internship programs have unique characteristics, what tasks are appropriate to assign to an intern lies
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Interns Are Not Good Free Labor By Ben Cheng, Co-founder of @Oursky and Skygear.io Interns Are Not Good Free Labor In fact, they’re more expensive than you think. We recently did a quarterly review with our content interns and found that one piece took 3 x 8-hour days to write. An editor, full-time staff, and the intern
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Someone said that you manage things and processes and you lead people. I agree with that wholeheartedly. When my staff have introduced me as their “boss” I immediately shutter as I am not the boss of anyone. I always state that I am their supervisor or that I supervise their work, or I give
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I am the CEO of Packaged For Success Enterprises and an Internship Program Consultant who shows managers how to increase productivity, performance, and ultimately profits by launching and managing a strong internship program. Packaged For Success Enterprises was created to share tips and strategies for achieving success on your own terms. I love that
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Managing people can be very difficult. People come into the workplace with the experiences of their pasts – both good and bad and both new and old. Resumes and interviews are great screening tools, but you truly never know your employees until they become your employees. As the saying goes “hard skills may get
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