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The Benefits of using Partnerships to Grow Your Internship
Entry by Ashley Cashen, Talent Acquisition and Retention Coordinator, digitalKnowledge
As you may recall in my earlier blog entries, digitalKnowledge chose to team up with the Interns for Indiana Program through Purdue University for their first internship. We chose to go this route for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, with this being our first internship in company history we could use the help. Interns for Indiana has supported our internship from the beginning, including sending us resumes of students who fit our criteria and setting up an âinterview fairâ for us to meet these candidates. Secondly, Interns for Indiana offers funding for smaller start-up companies.Â
Choosing to partner with Interns for Indiana has without a doubt been one of the best decisions we could have made. Not only do they offer administrative support to employers, but they also provide the interns with additional educational opportunities. Bart has had …
What if we CAN have a successful internship program?
Entry by Ashley Cashen, Talent Acquisition and Retention Coordinator, digitalKnowledge
Founded in 2003, digitalKnowledge is a smaller, but mighty IT consulting firm. Last fall it became very apparent that digitalKnowledge was missing out on a great opportunity â hosting an intern. When the idea first began circling the office, it made perfect sense. We are a smaller company, but that lends to our unique office culture – a culture that is a perfect educational environment for an undergrad intern.
Several months later, here we are, with the first dK internship program well under way. The process to get here consisted of a lot of research and conversations pondering that never-ending question, what if? What if we donât have enough work to keep the intern busy? What if we canât pay the intern enough? What if we donât have the staff to oversee the intern? And so on, and so on.
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