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Title: Internship Initiative


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Internship Initiative
  • Baseline Survey Fall 2008

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Focus of Survey In what ways are West Michigan
businesses utilizing interns?How can WMSA help
businesses increase the number of interns at
their workplaces?
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Survey Respondents
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The term intern encompasses these programs
  • Co-op experienced based learning for college
    students through paid employment in practical,
    curriculum-related work assignments that can be
    tailored to a students schedule
  • Internship One-time, curriculum-related work
    assignment, which may be paid or unpaid depending
    on the employer and what is required of the
    student for the position. Most offer a stipend
    or academic credit. Internships are generally
    reserved for upper-division students, completed
    for academic credit and one semester in duration
  • Summer Employment Like co-op, is paid work
    experience. However, this type of position may
    or may not be directly related to the students
    curriculum and is not integrated into the
    academic programs.

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Business Type v. Use of Interns
  • Over ½ of respondents in nearly all types of
    businesses have used interns!

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Size of Business v. Use of Interns
  • Interns have been used by the majority of
    respondents for every size business!

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Number of Interns
  • 217 respondents estimated having 3059 internships
    in past 24 months
  • Average 14 interns per respondent to this question

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Types of Programs
  • Half of the respondents use a combination of
    programs
  • (co-op, summer employment internships)

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Internships Paid? Or Unpaid?
  • Of 279 responses ALL paid at least ½ of their
    internships

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Additional Features Paid ( unpaid) Internships
  • 147 respondents indicated their internships have
    been for college credit 67 were not for college
    credit (43 responded to the question)
  • 98 (66) of these 147 were paid internships
  • 152 compensated interns at an hourly rate basis
    (38 responded to question)
  • The other 38 (responding) paid a stipend or a
    combination of both
  • Both paid unpaid internships were identified in
    most all the different business types

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Why have an internship program? according to
survey respondents
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Successful Recruitment Strategiesaccording to
survey respondents
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What barriers prevent or limit having interns?
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Suggestions for overcoming barriers
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Suggestions based on business size
  • Regardless of business type or size of business,
    help in developing internship programs was the
    most frequent suggestion from respondents

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Summary Observations
  • Baseline survey data represents a good cross
    section of business types and sizes
  • Sufficient sample of businesses who utilize
    interns
  • Regardless of organization type or size
  • the barriers are similar
  • suggestions for increasing internships are similar

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Critical Factors Survey Results
  • Top two reasons to have an internship program
  • To complete project work
  • A way to give back
  • Major barriers preventing or limiting internships
  • Money to pay interns lack of fulltime
    positions to offer
  • Time required to start a program working with
    students
  • Primary suggestions for increasing internships
  • Help develop programs
  • Help pay for interns
  • Help locate interns
  • Get management buy-in

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  • Prepared by
  • Cami Zawacki, Owner
  • HRAA Strategies
  • 616-540-8244, zawackic_at_hraastrategies.com
  • Prepared for
  • Cindy Brown, Project Manager
  • West Michigan Strategic Alliance
  • 616-871-2452, cbrown_at_wm-alliance.org
  • This project is funded in full or part by a
    WIRED grant from the U.S. Department
  • of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
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