BF2S Forums Making a case for Interns

free labor, duh.

Free/cheap help. Plus, you can oftentimes hire them permanently afterwards and avoid the big learning curve you normally have with new hires. It also gives the senior people a feeling of accomplishment to be able to help mentor a noob.

You can get at a wide assortment of people, before they have been tainted by any other offers, at colleges for interns. If you get them early enough they will be happy to get the work experience, and you can find the really, truly bright competent people before they gets sucked up by another larger company like Google. It gives you a much better pool to look at when you're looking to permanently hire then the people who are looking for a job with experience. (they're looking for a job for a reason, they're not the best out there)

There was a really good article about this in Inc. magazine a few months ago, maybe it can be found online.

Oh yeah, and gimme a job lol.

Pug wrote:

1. Cheap labor
2. It's a trial period, risk free for the hire period is temporary
3. If they're good, keep them
4. Increased morale due to more sex with interns

pretty much...minus the last option.

....my current employer started me as an intern, six months later i have worked my way up to an Account Executive position.  Usually if an intern is motivated enough to seek out and want an internship...usually that is a good sign that your looking at someone with positive potential and can be a true asset.  Plus you get to evaluate them without ties.

Vilham wrote:

ATG wrote:

free labor, duh.

lol interns get paid in the UK.

interns get paid here in the US as well..just depends on the company.  Usually they will if you state your case that you need income...and its a valid reason.

When i was an intern i got paid...not anything crazy ($8/hr) but...i was an intern for like 3 months...and then started moving up which is ultimately the point.

usmarine wrote:

free yes.  but you get a chance to see how people work before you actually hire them.  win/win

Yeah, you can see whether they spend all their time flaming noobs on bf2s or whether they actually file those files or whatever boring office jobs you guys do

Im about to get an office job working for a pharmaceutical company

Yeah but you guys have already done proper shit so it doesn't matter if you're in some cubicle now

siciliano732 wrote:

Vilham wrote:

ATG wrote:

free labor, duh.

lol interns get paid in the UK.

interns get paid here in the US as well..just depends on the company.  Usually they will if you state your case that you need income...and its a valid reason.

When i was an intern i got paid...not anything crazy ($8/hr) but...i was an intern for like 3 months...and then started moving up which is ultimately the point.

lol. Thats very low sum compared with what you would get in the UK. But then agian Internships are INCREDIBLY competitive in the UK. Like for Gold man Sachs some incredible no. of ppl applied (tens of thousands) they only have like 50 internship spots or something.

usmarine wrote:

Mek-Izzle wrote:

Yeah but you guys have already done proper shit so it doesn't matter if you're in some cubicle now

cubicle lulz.  I dont work in a cubical.

Something like this...
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/5143/tgll0.png

"Delta operations control center"

sounds like a sexy job.

I don't see what your boss needs convincing for.  If he doesn't see the advantage of interns, he might be a little dumb.

Mek-Izzle wrote:

I did Work Experience in Year 10 (14/15 year olds) in some Office in West London. Boring as fuck. I can't believe I had to do it for 2 weeks.

Different from an internship. My work Experience wasnt too bad, i actually did real things rather than just photocopying, getting tea etc.