Meeting Start: 4:30pm-5:35pm
Speaker: Tahira Probst-Internships
What are internship programs?
-Internships are required if you want to find work after graduation.
-Small piece of getting a job. Need to have education but also need experience
-Internships provide practical experience.
-Helps employers to find out if you are a good fit for the company and if the company is a good fit for you.
-Most HR jobs requires 1-2 years of experience. Internships can provide that previous experience.
Benefits:
Industry exposure: Companies want skills but they don’t just want you to know about HR but also about the industry. If you are interviewing for healthcare you should also know about health care.
What internship experience provides:
-Networking
-Mentoring
-References
-Academic credit
-Compensation
-Real life application of HR coursework
-Professionalism
-Communication
-Teamwork
-Project ownership
-Initiative
-Content skills
Internships through WSU provides an opportunity for your needs to be voiced to the employer.
How do you get academic credit?
Take Psych 495. This is the first class that you need to take. Psych 495 contains a classroom component and a practical component.
Classroom component:
You get to meet with other students and get to hear about their experiences not just your own.
Topics for discussion:
-Salaries in HR
-HR Generalists vs specialists
-Employee motivation and Labor Relations
-Workplace diversity
-Resume development
-Finding a job in HR
-Monthly reports detailing hours worked and journal reflections.
For each credit, students are required to complete 45 hours of field work during the 17 week semester. --Students can enroll in 2-6 credits
-90-270 hours of field work total
-Between 6-18 hours per week
-Mid-semester site visit is done by instructor to review student progress and activities
-Counts as one of your choose 3 electives.
What have HR interns done?
-Update create job descriptions
-Update employee manuals
-Conduct and analyze employee satisfaction surveys
-Create and maintain employee/volunteer databases
-Event planning
-Screen applicants and conduct phone interviews
-Open and close position files
-Recruitment at job fairs
-Research pros cons of pre employment testing
-Revise performance appraisal forms
Frequently asked questions:
How does Psych 495 differ from an internship:
495 is a supervised internship and 496 is unsupervised. There is no difference in work just there is no classroom component
When do I start looking?
Now, registration is right around the corner and to get your line number you must have your internship lined up.
How do I find an internship?
-HR listserv
-HR society blog
-Psych 495 handbook (shows the past internships)
-Individual research
-Job fairs
-Networking
Should I prepare a resume?
Yes, when you are networking you may be asked for a resume
What if you have more questions?
Contact Tahara Probst or Armando Estrada
You don’t have to sign up for credit to get an internship. You can do an independent internship. You can also do it through the Business department. A list is available with companies that want to have internship students that you can call if you are looking for an internship.
Social media can find internships through that. Start going to the SHWRMA luncheons. Attending the meetings helps you to know the people who work in HR.
nLIght: Kelly Kidd
nLight is looking for interns. HR has been a strategic partner still in growth…especially in recruiting and staffing. HR is evolving as recruiting evolves. They are looking at new ways to design new projects for the HR system. Their company is growing and they are implementing an HRIS system. They will be working on creating an affirmative action plan, applicant tracking system and Harassment training soon. nLight is a manufacturer and HR needs to be able to speak business talk, e.g. accounting. HR also needs to be able to do statistics so that they can read the results of surveys. nLight makes lasers in the medical, industrial, defense systems and space systems. They use lean manufacturing and HR tries to help the departments. Networking is really important in HR. Internships allow you to have time to be creative and be wrong.
Statement on Internships: Wendy Hendersenn
It is important to network and join groups like SHWRMA. Interns should not work split shifts and should work a minimum of 4 hour shift on consecutive days to see how the work begins and the outcome of what they have done. It is good to think of three things that you want to learn and then search for an internship that will help you to meet those goals.
Intern: Shanon
Works with management group as an intern. Has learned quite abit about recruiting. She gets to do things from the beginning participating interviews reviewing apps, learning about the compensation and benefits piece. Wendy Hendersenn is looking for someone who can commit to 20 hours per week starting in January. Strong excel or at least basic excel knowledge and needs to be somewhat extraverted to do the recruiting piece. The hours 8-5 and best to come in within a specific block of time because you want to be able to do the follow up. The internship is about 6 months. Intern starts in January.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment