 |
|
|
General Information For Employers
Your role as an internship employer:
Primary Responsibility: Employers are called upon
to provide the necessary supervision and support to ensure that students
receive appropriate educational benefit from the internship. You will
be asked to:
- Learning Objectives: Work together with students and college staff to
plan three learning objectives, which students will accomplish
during the internship.
- Brief Site Visit: Meet
"briefly" with a college representative at your
work-site to evaluate to discuss students' progress as an
intern. Meeting should last about 10 - 15 minutes.
- Student Evaluation: Evaluate the students' progress in completing the
learning objectives and their overall performance on the internship.
- Work Hours: Verify internship work hours.
Worker's Compensation
Unpaid Interns: For students
who are working on an unpaid basis, Santa Monica College will provide
the Worker's Compensation coverage since the college is considered
the employer for the internship position.
Paid Interns: Students
for whom you are paying a salary, your organization/company will provide
the Worker's Compensation and/or liability insurance coverage.
Equal Opportunity: The
Internship Program and participating employers operate without regard
to race, age, sex, religion, color, national origin or handicap.
Other Issues
Paid vs. Unpaid Interns: You
may choose to offer interns a salary or stipend, or you may offer
internships on an unpaid basis. An issue to consider in deciding
about salary is supply and demand. In
certain fields, students are often willing to volunteer their time
to gain experience: entertainment, social service.
Other career fields usually require a salary
or stipend to attract interns: general business, accounting.
In some fields, it is possible to find unpaid interns, but
these internships are frequently paid: marketing and
computer science.
The typical range of salaries for interns is $8.00
- $13.00 per hour |
|
|
