Summer Student Internships - A different approach to hiring technical students

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1. Summer Student Internships A different approach to hiring technical students Prepared for September 21, 2017 SAS Management Meeting by Su Wang, Academic Web Technologies
2. Agenda • Why the AWT started the summer internship • How'd it turn out? • Q&A
3. Who am I? Su Wang Student Developer Supervisor + Developer Academic Web Technologies
4. In the past... • Very low application rates • Not finding the skillsets we wanted • Very difficult time hiring Source: https://aydrawing.deviantart.com/art/Sad-Anteater-624434802
5. Data as of 8/25/2017 Back in the day...
6. What changes did we try? 1. Updated job title and job description 2. Started paper advertisements 3. Started limited period summer internship
7. What is the Summer Internship? 1. Less strict requirements 2. Limited term 3. Focused work and projects
8. Why? 1. Less strict requirements a. Appeal to bigger audience, bigger candidate pool, less scary, more applicants from earlier stage in undergraduate education (e.g. 2nd/3rd years) 2. Limited term 3. Focused work and projects
9. Why? 1. Less strict requirements 2. Limited term a. Opens position to students not interested in working during school year, "evaluation period" 3. Focused work and projects
10. Why? 1. Less strict requirements 2. Limited term 3. Focused work and projects a. Limited to working on one application, less training required for separate environments, lower mental switch between projects
11. Back in the day... Data as of 8/25/2017, months with no submissions removed
12. Data as of 8/25/2017 So… what'd that do?
13. Here's the pretty graph Data as of 8/25/2017, months with no submissions removed
14. Applications after part-time career fair Updated job title Second year summer internship application opens First summer internship application opens Data as of 8/25/2017, months with no submissions removed
15. What about actual hires? 1. First year: hired intern, intern continued into the regular academic year as student developer, eventually became full time staff 2. 2nd year (this year): hired intern, intern will be continuing into the academic year as student developer
16. What's in the future? • Ideas: ◦ Internships for every term ◦ Applying the internship to our quality assurance / technical doc students ◦ Better data tracking ◦ YOUR SUGGESTION HERE!
17. Q&A
18. More questions? Contact me: suw@uci.edu