Pocatello Idaho State University s growing internship program can gain students job experience at most levels of industry, anywhere from major corporations to small businesses. What we re doing through the CDC is becoming a moderately centralized clearinghouse to match internships with employers. He says internships are a win-win situation for everyone involved. When they graduate they have work experience germane to their field and thus gain a competitive advantage.
Employers have a dual advantage.
They get an early start in recruitment and skilled employees to work in the specific areas the internship was designed for. In the current economic situation they know the sooner they have people in place learning the job, the better chance they have to hire them after graduation. Paulson feels that searching for jobs on the Internet is the wave of the future and that ISU joins that wave with its long line of internship listings. Kempthorne and Sen. Some provide first-hand technical experience, and some provide experience in human relations.