An Employer’s Guide on How to get the best out of Internshala services

April 14, 2012 Sarvesh

Dear Employer,

Recruitment of an intern is as serious a process as that of hiring a full time employee. While Internshala may not be able to eliminate the pain completely, we would try our best to make the experience as hassle free as possible for you. This guide is an attempt in the same direction, a collection of a few pointers accumulated over our experience of helping hundreds of other organizations with their intern needs in past 1 year.

The applicant dashboard is meant to help you screen candidates faster and keep the data more organized. The annexure A explains columns that you may see in the dashboard.
At times there may not be many applications for an internship due to several factors such as company/work profile, location, stipend, duration etc. See if you could change any of these to attract more applicants
You will see a few irrelevant applications at times – please ignore them. Some students apply without reading the job post completely and we are putting in measures in place to curb that.
“The Cover Letter” section is an important one – it helps you identify a sincere candidate from “apply everywhere” candidate. Do use it.
The answer to internship specific questions and automated telephonic interview features, if opted for, are known to save ~80% of initial screening hassle. Do use them in your evaluation
Close the process and declare results at the earliest (ideally within 15 days of last date to apply). Any further delay and good chance that the selected candidate has already been hire by someone else.
As part of our commitment to students to keep the process transparent, you are required to share the selection list with us within 15 days of application closing date which we could announce to the applicants. This also boosts your organization’s credibility in the student community
Please take references (preferably faculty references) from selected students to reduce the risk of any unwanted behavior from students post selection – also please inform Internshala of all such incidences so that we can take appropriate actions at our end.
Being open, honest, and transparent with students and setting right expectations regarding stipend, office expenses, work culture & hours, coaching and mentoring, boarding/lodging support etc. upfront would save heartburn later.

Annexure A:-

Field	Description
Fields you may need help understanding
Skill proficiency	All the skills ((HTML, PHP, Java, MYSQL, RUBY, AutoCAD, Matlab, C/C++) are self assessed on the scale of 1 to 4 , 4 being the highest
Hometown	Candidate’s native place
Earliest Start Date	Date from which candidate can start his Internship
Minimum Duration	Minimum period which candidate can devote for an internship
Expected Salary	Interns expectation on stipend he/she expects from this internship
Answers	Candidate’s answers to internship specific questions asked in the post
Audio Interview	Recording of a candidate’s answers to automated telephonic interview questions
Cover Letter	Write-up by student, justifying “why he /she should be selected for this internship?”
Comments	Use comments section to store outcome (“Shortlisted”, “Rejected”, “Hired”) or any other notes that you may have regarding each candidate. This is NOT visible to students
Fields that may be self explanatory
Institute	Name of the candidate’s current college / university.
Degree	His/her current degree program (Ex. – Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech))
Stream	Area of Specialization (Ex. – Computer Science)
Current Year	Which year of degree program the student currently is in
Performance	Academic performance on CGPA / percentage basis (indicated with % sign)
12^th	Performance of a candidate during his 12^th standard / Intermediate.
10^th	Performance of a candidate during his 10^th standard / matriculation.
Phone	Mobile phone number of a candidate.
Resume	Link to access the resume of a candidate
Email	Link to access the email address of a candidate