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!

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.

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

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.