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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience, internships work best when you can assign them an independent, summer-long project that may or may not see the light of day, depending on how well it is done (and won’t create additional work for someone else if it is not done right). They are happy “owning” a somewhat meaningful project, they hopefully walk away with a work sample, and if they don’t execute, no one cares.

Identifying and managing this project takes a lot of work on the part of the intern manager though. I hate it when an intern is dropped on me because someone’s nephew needed resume content.[/quote]

Absolutely this. And I always try to NOT hire the intern that’s the relative of a senior executive if I can help it, because there’s a lot of pressure and eyeballs on you if you do that. It’s actually a disadvantage in my opinion, although they always wind up getting hired.

To me, there should be a rule that you can’t get an internship at a fortune 500 if you’re a relative of someone who works there. [/quote]

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