President University Industry Services
A strategic partnership with President University can yield many benefits for any company or organization. They will gain access to President Universityfs high quality students and graduates. Student interns can learn from a company while at the same time providing a host of benefits to their employers. Graduates from President University bring with them both a high-quality education as well as extensive real world work experience from their previous internships. For further information regarding a partnership with President University, please contact Ms. Jacinta Arquisola at the Internship and Career Center
Internship Benefits for Employers
Companies can gain many advantages and benefits from having a successful internship program. For the participating company, an internship program can:
- Allow the company to better serve its customers through the contributions of an intern. Many organization, during harder economic times, lack sufficient qualified employees. Because organizations are not obliged to provide a salary or other benefits, interns can serve as a low-cost, short-term solution to handle increased workloads and complete needed projects, while at the same time providing the intern with a valuable work experience;
- Stimulate and promote a learning experience among professional staff. Company employees can learn much from interns who bring a different set of skills, knowledge base, and perspective to the job;
- Provide company personnel with the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of their in house training programs or other services based on feedback from interns;
- Afford an opportunity to screen for prospective employees. Interns become familiar with an organizationfs culture and work, and establish close working relationships with current employees. This makes them ideal candidates for job vacancies. Even if an intern does not end up being employed at their internship placement site, a positive work term experience often provides the organization with valuable word-of-mouth advertising for the university.
- Allow the company to contribute to the professional development of future professionals through their partnership with President University.
- Gain an awareness of the current curriculum and the opportunity to evaluate if the university's objectives are meeting business needs;
- Help in the companyfs social contribution to prepare and train the next generation;
- Gain enthusiastic and motivated workers and develop supervisory skills for their staff:
- Build relationships between University and the company's recruitment department;