Employers play an important role in ensuring that college students are career ready and in developing the competencies that prepare graduates for this transition.

TAGS: best practices, internships, competencies, spotlight

NACE Community members share ideas for keeping interns who have accepted their job offers interested and excited until the first day of employment.

TAGS: best practices, internships, branding and marketing, spotlight

Rhonda Fisher Eaker and Alyssa Marks, Metropolitan State University of Denver, look at the effects of funding students for internships in fields where internships are traditionally unpaid.

TAGS: internships, journal

Can a current job also count as an internship? Several members of the NACE Community weigh in with their views.

TAGS: best practices, internships, policy, spotlight, students

There are differences by internship status in the ways that students approach the job search and their expectations for their starting salaries.

TAGS: internships, compensation, salaries, trends and predictions, student attitudes, surveys, spotlight, students

Unpaid internships can put international students at risk of violating their immigration status.

TAGS: internships, international students, journal

Staff at Oakland University examined barriers to internship participation among English majors and developed ways to address those barriers.

TAGS: internships, faculty, student attitudes, surveys, journal

The NACE Center and SkillSurvey collaborated on a pilot project to determine how to best measure career readiness; results of the initial phase are highlighted.

TAGS: internships, competencies, trends and predictions, journal

The internship program at Mars, Inc. has undergone significant changes recently that have bolstered not only its numbers, but its value to the company.

TAGS: best practices, internships, operations, program development, spotlight, strategic planning

What is your organization’s alcohol policy for interns during events? Responses range from carding employees to not serving alcohol at all.

TAGS: internships, spotlight