Total Internship Management

Total Internship Management: The Employer's Guide to Building the Ultimate Internship Program bridges that gap with offer innovative articles by leading industry experts on typically unaddressed aspects of internship programs: understanding the next generation of college students, successful methods of assessment, effective coaching tactics, relevant legal issues, and detailed compensation data. With Total Internship Management, your organization will acquire the skills and knowledge to effectively utilize your interns. Based on the National Internship & Co-op Study - the largest internship research project in the United States over the past nine years - Total Internship Management draws from real life experiences from more than 500,000 college students and more than 500 organizations to help you bring effective techniques and practices to all facets of your internship program, from knowing if your organization is ready to start recruiting, to properly evaluating your interns on the job, to identifying and retaining future employees.

New technology, aggressive and fast-paced competition, "brain drain." The face of business is changing. That?s why college recruiting is more important than ever. Your organization must have access to the freshest and most energetic young minds out there ? before the other guys. But does your internship program have what it takes to attract the cream of the campus crop (if you have an internship program at all)? Do your managers have the knowledge and expertise to make it an effective experience for everyone, even as the gap between your organization?s goals and the needs of your interns continues to grow? Total Internship Management bridges that gap. The best minds don?t have to go to the biggest name-brand organizations. With Total Internship Management, your organization will acquire the skills needed to competitively recruit ? and more importantly, the knowledge to effectively utilize your interns once you?ve got them. Based on the New England Internship Study ? one of the largest internship research projects ever undertaken ? Total Internship Management draws from the real-life experiences of over 6,000 students and 240 organizations to help you bring effective techniques and practices to all the facets of your internship program. Total Internship Management also offers innovative articles by leading industry experts on typically unaddressed aspects of internship programs: understanding the millennial generation, successful methods of assessment, effective coaching tactics, relevant legal issues, and detailed compensation data ? leaving your company well equipped to face challenges in ways your competition hasn?t even dreamt of!

Your organization has decided to take on interns - what will you, as a potential supervisor, do with them?If your answer to this question involves making coffee and taking lunch orders, you'll be sure to find yourself with unhappy interns, a frustrated staff, and a program that fails to take advantage of the full potential your student-workers can offer. Let's face it - recruiting has changed, and "top talent" starts out in the top internship programs.A 2008 study of over 40,000 college students conducted by Intern Bridge found that one of the leading gaps in internship programming stems from pairing students with ineffective supervisors. In fact, the study found that 93% of students who reported working effective supervisors would return to the host organization for full-time employment. Do you have the resources necessary to make your internship program competitive?Total Internship Management: Supervisor's Handbook is here to help. Created to answer the demands of human resources professionals across the nation ho utilized the original best-selling Intern Bridge Total Internship Management strategy publication, the Supervisor's Handbook is the line manager's bible to internship programming. Whether you are new to managing an internship program, or just looking for a few fresh tips, the Supervisor's Handbook offers concise and practical ideas specifically tailored to today's college students. The Supervisor's Handbook is your guide to robust solutions needed to make your internship program thrive. Today's generation of college students is dynamic and driven - shouldn't your internship program be too?

Research shows that internships are the dominant form of experiential learning used in business schools worldwide, providing practical insight into a job role for students and enhancing their employability. This book provides practical resources that practitioners and students can use to maximize the overall internship experience by explaining business education, internships, skill development, and employment outcomes. It also includes material to assist in the development or enhancement of internship programs to create a high-quality internship course while providing guidance on reflecting and evaluating the learning gained from the experience. Including quizzes and short activities, this book can be used as a companion text for any student participating in an internship, or as a guide that practitioners in this field can use to help design their own internship program and course content. Business schools are increasing their focus on experiential learning and are encouraging faculty to incorporate internships into their existing curriculum. Linking theory, history, and practice, this book is ideal reading for students participating in an internship for academic credit and as a guidebook for business school practitioners who wish to start or improve their existing academic internship program.

It is estimated that about 60,000 college students in communications and business are doing internships at any given time. This guide seeks to demystify internships and experiential learning, to help the practitioner and professor stand on common ground in nuturing the student intern.

Discover how you can find an intern to help grow your company. Teaches business owners and entrepreneurs how to find, hire and manage interns to grow your business, no matter what your level of experience is when it comes to hiring interns: Whether you're a complete novice, or experience veteran.Most importantly, and unique to Intern Profits, is that we give businesses that are creating an internship program the ability to manage an intern or a team of interns while creating a win-win scenario for both the intern and the business owner.We show entrepreneurs and small to medium sized businesses how to find, hire and manage interns to grow their business. By creating an internship program that allows the business owner to grow his or her business with the help of interns, the business owner is also providing real world on the job training on real tasks that the intern can take on to their next job or start their own business.We provide business owners with turnkey trainings and projects that help the business generate more leads, more sales, more revenue and more profits for the business - while solving the problem of not being able to train the intern effectively.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Integrating theory with real-world practice, THE HUMAN SERVICES INTERNSHIP: GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE, 3e helps students make meaningful connections between classroom learning and their own field experiences through ongoing reflection, analysis, and exercises. This workbook-formatted text reviews and updates basic information that is useful to students in human service field programs. An excellent tool for self-assessment and analysis, the text intersperses exercises through each chapter to engage students in thinking about how the material being discussed relates to their own experiences. A unique six-step model--that students are encouraged to use throughout their field experience--guides students in enhancing self-awareness, integrating the knowledge and values of the profession, recognizing challenging and dissonant situations, decision-making, and follow-through. Chapters on getting started, ethics, cultural diversity, communication, self-care, and other topics help students maximize their learning from experience. Covering information from the beginning to the end of an internship, the text helps students analyze different experiences and situations they encounter on a daily basis in their field work. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.