Chris Wiggins, a professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University, regularly brings start-up founders to campus to speak to students about careers in technology and is establishing an internship program at the school.
Manage your ad agency by establishing an internship program with colleges and universities that offer advertising or business degrees, so you can recruit fresh talent for your staff.
Drawing from the city's elite private high schools and upstate universities, the Quinn campaign has established an elaborate internship and fellowship program, complete with weekly seminars, guest speakers and a recommended reading list.
She doubled the school's endowment, established the first engineering program at a women's college, emphasized the teaching of public speaking and established a program of paid internships for students.
If you're going into an established internship program somewhere, you've probably received a packet of instructions and information to prepare you for your job.
At the same time, as Alan Milburn has suggested in his somewhat oxymoronic role as the government's "social mobility tsar", internships might be made subject to same rules as the wider labour market – or, going further, we could establish a catch-all national internship service, so work experience was not just divided much more equitably, but also seen to be so.
One of the established reasons for pursuing an internship is to lean on those already within an industry to learn and ask questions, and this is absolutely a benefit.
Despite his then-immigrant status (he is now a U.S. citizen) and community college background, he was able to secure relevant internships and establish a solid network of mentors and peers.
The board, including its co-founder, Elliot Cohen, elected Marinoff president in 1996, and at first, the two worked in concert -- Cohen wrote a professional code of ethics, another board member established mentor and internship guidelines for professional certification and Marinoff talked C.C.N.Y. into contributing $5,000 for the Third International Conference on Philosophical Practice.
Interns, and groups representing them, should give equal attention to how we can improve the quality of internships, such as establishing a code of best practice, to ensure that interns gain the most from their time.
