Recommendations, Tips & Advice for Employers

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Inventory which internship tasks are possible and where you can use an extra hand.
Stipulate which person will accompany the trainee and involve this person in the selection of the trainee.
Do you need a trainee throughout the whole year? Take two trainees on an annual basis and let the second trainee start in the last month of the first trainee. Thus the trainees can instruct each other and this will cost you less time.
Inform your colleagues about the start date and the content of the assignment of the trainee.
Make appointments (monthly) for coaching conversations with the trainee.
More than 20% of all trainees becomes employed at the internship company. Working with trainees offers you an ideal possibility of getting to know the person during the internship period period, so you are able to employ the best trainee after the period.
Let the trainee present his or her findings/recommendations at the end of the internship period in your company.

Title of the internship
Make the tittle attractive for trainees, for example: ' instructive marketing internship'.
Internship info
Descripe clearly what the internship activities will be, on which department will the trainee work, what can a possible assignment be and which type of trainee are you looking for.
Period of the internship
De average period of a internship lies between 3 and 6 months.
Type of training period
Work experience period (2e and 3e study year): the trainee helps within the department. Graduation assignment (last study year): the trainee works independently for an internship period research, internship assignment period task or analysis and gives recommendations in a report.
Internship compensation
It is up to you what the amount is on the compensation for the internship.
Number of days
Most of the trainees are working 5 days per week during their internship period. At some educations, the trainee must go 1 day per week to school for the internship tasks from school and the internship training lessons provided by the school.
Extra info
Here you can describe which properties the trainee must have, if your company is well reachable by public transport and if a students who follows another type of education is also welcome to apply this internship, etc.

Your first selection of trainees can be on education, starting date of the internship period and the region where the trainee lives.
The trainee receives an e-mail that you are interest in his or her profile and you can get in contact with each other.
De not wait too long with a responding, trainees bound to regulate their training period some months in advance.
You can ask the trainees to send a motivation letter and C.V.
You can approach the trainees by means of a telephone interview and to make a further selection. You can invite suitable trainees for a personal interview.

Attach the trainee in the first week to a permanent employee and instruct clearly your company rules.
Let the trainee establish a clear internship task schedule and a plan of action in the second week.
Help the trainee with making an internship period planning and establish deadlines for the period.
Is it the first time you are working with a trainee? Let the trainee document everything what is told to him/her in a internship instruction book. By reading and using this book, the next trainee can quickly and independently get started with the work.