Why one should hire interns?

• Posted on Dec 5, 2017
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• By Dhruv

These days Internship programs are gaining popularity among startups and growing companies. What internship programs do is that they provide interns to companies who are seeking some help in their work process and for a student, that same internship is the best way to gather skills and knowledge that they seek. Generally, internship programs are of 2-3 months, wherein an intern joins and company for a stipend with the main objective of learning.

Hiring an intern has a lot of benefits to the employer apart from low costs. It is an excellent way of building your company. It helps you to know the true worth of an intern to become a potential employee as you can assess them over the period of his/her internship.

Benefits of Hiring an Intern:

1. New Ideas:

Interns sometimes contribute by providing new ideas or suggest an alternative approach to a work which can be way better than the existing techniques used. Since the students are new to the corporate life, they are eager to prove their mettle and this is one reason a company can put to good use. Interns questions processes and often find a better way of doing a certain job than that of a manager.

2. Short-Term Projects:

It is not at all necessary to hire interns with a mindset of placing them as full-time employees in the end. Short-term projects can be completed by using interns as a majority of them are willing to work in an organisation just for the sake of gaining work experience to make their CVs attractive. Many start-ups are capitalizing on this as most of the work that they have does not require a lot of technical expertise and only requires a sharp mind to get the job done.

3. Students are Tech Savvy:

Many a time it happens that student interns are more tech savvy than the regular employees and thus they take less time to finish their work. Interns have a good command in PowerPoint presentations and also have a strong presence in social media.

4. Improves Company’s Reputation:

Internship programs are run by top universities can help a company to improve its brand value. A company has an option of selecting the best talent from internship program as they get a chance of assessing them properly and at the end of the internship, a company can offer them a job, which will eventually increase the reputation of the company. The best example is Google.

5. More Work, Less Pay:

Interns are basically students with a hunger for learning and developing their personal skill set which help them in future endeavors. They are more concern about the quality of project rather than what they are getting in monetary terms. Internships are a mutually beneficial experience for both the recruiter and the recruited.

6. Develops a strong pipeline of future talent:

Did you hire a number of interns from one college or university? Did they have a great experience, but had to move on to other jobs? Don’t worry. These students will go back to their campus career center, professors, or peers, and reference the positive experience they had with your company. As a results students of that college will surely keep your company in the forefront for any future internship or full-time job. Be honest and upfront with interns and keep lines of communications open about their performance, future opportunities, and next steps.

7. Interns can make a positive impact on corporate culture:

New ideas. New personalities. A new outlook. Those are all traits interns can bring to a department or business. This can help improve a company’s corporate culture, especially for employees who may have become dull. The new intern can narrow down the gap between personalities and bring the team closer.

In the end, it can be said that hiring interns is a win-win situation for both, the intern and the recruiter.

• Posted on Dec 5, 2017
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• By Dhruv
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