WHAT PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING
LEARN HOW TO BUILD A TOP-NOTCH INTERNSHIP AND ENTRY TALENT PROGRAM
Utilizing internships is the perfect way to conduct recruiting activities by identifying future hires, increasing retention rates, maintaining a pipeline of highly qualified candidates, creating and building relationships with local universities and organizations, and having short-term projects completed by an educated workforce.
For the above to be true, organizations must host effective and meaningful programs. How is this done? What are students looking for? What are the expectations of universities? What can organizations do to make their programs the best they can be?
The Total Internship Management Workshop is designed to help you and your organization build a win-win internship program. Based on the most in-depth research ever to be conducted into the successful management of internship programs, you can be assured that you will leave the event with a newfound approach to internships.
The presentation will include detailed statistics from proprietary research. Qualitative and quantitative responses will be shared from our latest research project, the National Internship and Co-op Study – a detailed examination of what makes internship programs successful based on the responses of over 225,000 students from more than 500 universities.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
- The 4 key elements to a successful internship program
- Implement an impactful internship program that yields higher ROI
- Engage your interns with meaningful work assignments
- Create and maintain a pipeline of highly qualified and educated full-time job candidates
- Increase brand awareness on college campuses
- And much, much more!
TOPICS:
- Preparing your organization to “host” interns
- Developing meaningful internship work plans
- Selecting and training mentors and supervisors
- Understanding college students’ needs
- Evaluation and feedback to interns
- Gaining valuable internship program performance data
- Creating an assessment feedback loop to increase ROI
- Understanding the legal environment
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Arlington, TX
Columbia, SC
Columbus, OH
Fresno, CA
Greenville, NC
Hattiesburg, MS
Lancaster, PA
Rochester, NY
San Antonio, TX
Dr. Robert Shindell
YOUR FACILITATOR
During the past 20 years, Dr. Robert Shindell, has successfully held a variety of professional leadership roles in higher education. He developed career centers at The University of Toledo’s College of Engineering, Midwestern State University and the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Robert’s innovative approach to career services led The Rawls College of Business Career Management Center to achieve the ranking of 28th in BusinessWeek’s national ranking of College of Business career centers in 2007. Dr. Shindell’s research and opinions are often quoted in the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, Inside Higher Ed and many more. He has worked with thousands of employers and higher education career centers in developing successful transition plans for students through both live and virtual presentations.
Dr. Shindell also serves as a member of the Distinguished Scientists Advisory Board for the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) to maximizing The United States Department of Energy’s strategic objectives. In addition to expanding ORISE thought leadership, the DSAB works closely with ORISE leadership, technical experts and liaisons to ensure that strategic milestones related to ORISE activities are met.
Robert has earned his Doctorate of Philosophy from Texas Tech University, a master’s degree in training and development from Midwestern State University, and a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Toledo.
Past Participants
The Total Internship Management Workshop is appropriate for organizations of any size, from any industry, anywhere in the country. Since 2007, The Total Internship Management approach to building and sustaining amazing internship programs has been utilized by thousands of companies, non-profit organizations and government agencies across the United States.