I have heard some mixed reviews with regards to using interns during the search. I would love to get some feedback regarding your experience and what value they added to your search. What tasks did you have them perform? What tasks were they capable of performing well, not so well, etc? Thanks in advance for the feedback!
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I had hired two interns over LinkedIn. Placing the ad and receiving a lot of inflow is not a problem. However, I had mentioned in the job ad that this was a pro-bono role (not many people pay attention to this).
I ended up hiring two interns which actually caused me more work than support. Due to the quality, I had to manage them along the way on every step, basically was preparing letters for them, getting them the list of potential targets, etc.
Bottom line is, to hire smart and hungry interns even if it is on a pro-bono basis, make sure that these are the best interns you can get.
Or else you will end up spending more time managing them instead of your deal-flow...