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.

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?

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!

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.

To meet the demand of the industry, university sport management students must possess experience. The internship experience has been identified as the most critical element for the professional preparation of future sport managers. Since many students may have a peripheral understanding of the inner workings of the sport industry, A Practical Guide to Sport Management Internships is designed to offer undergraduate and graduate students as well as the internship supervisor in-depth pedagogical and legal insights to be better prepared for the experience. "Miller and Seidler have compiled a nifty resource that provides an overview of the role of internships in sport management programs... Along with discussions useful to faculty looking to establish or enhance an internship program, they address the different types of internships to consider and various tools for students... Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, September 2010