Combat talent crunch with Internships

Times Ascent (Wednesday, 12th December) published an interesting article on the predicted talent crunch that India Inc. is facing. The article talks about how MNCs in Indian are finding it extremely difficult to find talented people to work with and how the trend will continue for the next few years.  Read the entire article here.

Internships to the rescue :

Can the trend be
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Are you hiring Sachin Tendulkar to write Java code?

Hiring relevant interns for your internship role is an extremely cruicial aspect of making an internship work. Most often an internship fails because the hired candidate is not relevant for the job.Dealing with misfits in your organization is both time consuming and unproductive.

5 ways in which you can hire relevant interns for your company : – Start early – Many times, companies are in urgent need of a candidate
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How to identify interns who “deliver”

Say you’re looking to recruit a couple of interns for a role @ your company. You would post an internship requirement and after a selection process, you would probably select 2 candidates who you think are best suited for the role. One of the typical challenges you would have faced here (if you have already tried recruiting interns in the past) is that, after you have finally selected the
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Some tips to brand your internships better/ reach out to more students

In the last few months, we had been conducting some research on usage patterns on Twenty19. Based on this, we thought we’ll share some insights and pointers to help you brand your company better among students and to reach out to more students.

Your internship posting is like pitching your company to the students for the first time. Here are a few ways to build a great rapport with
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Definition Internship

I’m compelled to write this because, through my interactions with Indian students across different educational backgrounds and cities, I have discovered that most of them are not familiar with the term “internship”. This is mainly because, in India, students across different cultural backgrounds use different terminologies, ranging from training to summer project which is equivalent to the word internship.

In brief, internships are an opportunity for students to work
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