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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp here of Fortune 500. All the benefits that it does in terms of PR and being able to hire people after graduation is why the company does it. Also, our competitors do it.

That said, I’m totally sick of it and I’m not gonna do it anymore after this year.  The kids are sweet, but I’m getting older and I’m tired of the corporate performance/rah rah aspect of it.

Not that they don’t have the typical college student skills, but since they’re not doing mathematical modeling for me, there’s only so much they can really contribute in 10 weeks.  But I think I’m helping them with their career, which is why I started doing it in the first place.  [/quote]

I still don’t get the logic of not giving offers to top performers.  You are going through the cost and effort to hire 100 summer kids…and then going through a bunch of efffort to hire FT when you could have circumvented all that by simply giving offers to top interns.[/quote]

DP who hires interns but doesn't give full time offers at the end of summer. (Not a F500 company) We simply aren't growing or having the staff attrition to justify hiring multiple new grads every year. My department of 12, a support function, gets one intern most summers. We have one entry-level role on the team. That turns over every 2-3 yrs. When I need to fill it, I contact our recent interns and have always been able to hire one. We do have very successful people throughout the company who started as interns, and connections throughout the industry from people who interned with us. 
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Companies do internships for a variety of reasons, as already mentioned. A constant flow of immediate new hires is only useful to some companies.[/b][/quote]

mine have had a variety of paid internship experiences, most of them very selective. None of the places hire interns ever. In the fields my kids want, a doctorate is required for most positions and the internships are R&D based under phDs, for experience and networking in the industry that will help later down the road not for a job right after college. Bachelors are not often hired at these places; only MS and phD. [/quote]

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