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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m the manager of a rising senior undergrad intern (business major) at a Fortune 500. We have about 100 summer interns in a 10-week corporate program.

It does much more for them than it does for me.

I’m a little burnt out and have been doing it for 5+ years so I probably won’t do it next year.

What they get:

Their first exposure to a white collar, desk job.
An understanding of how different major departments work. 
Learning a bunch of industry/corporate acronyms (pmp, saas, etc)
An immediate understanding of how important soft skills and internal politics are.
An understanding of diverse corporate backgrounds and career paths. 
The details of a particular department (finance, hr, etc) 
A sense of whether or not they’d want to work at the company or in the industry after graduation.

We are a company that doesn’t make an offer at the end of the summer, they have to apply to something open in the spring of graduation. But, they tend to get hired faster than a regular undergraduate. 
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What’s the point of hiring 100 interns and then not making offers?

You put them through a 10 week interview and in theory a bunch performed well…so it seems like a waste of time and money to not try to hire top performers.[/quote]

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