Are interns worth the time?

by a searcher from Harvard University - Harvard Business School

3 years ago

This might seem like a counter-intuitive question but I'm wondering what people's experiences have been working with interns.  I'm particularly wondering about the time invested in training them vs what you actually get out of them (since it will probably only be for the summer).  Would also be curious if people have had good results using a freelance worker to do scraping, grunt work, etc.  Thanks!

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searcher from University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business

Credit goes to my business partner, but our interns have brought significant value to our search. Our summer team is structured around MBA leads managing undergraduates through a structured 10 week program blended with education, professional development, and search activity. They're driving industry research, lead generation, outreach, and special projects on diligence.

2 years ago | like reply | 0 likes

searcher from INSEAD

We had similar experience to Tucker. We had a great group of motivated interns that have been very helpful. We have been working with them similar to what Tucker mentioned. To add to that, we set the internship period as 3 months as from our experience after that the work starts to be repetitive to them and they lose motivation

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