• Canvass Advisory Board.
• Secure commitments from company Advisory Boards.
• Ask Advisory Board members to help with referrals to other companies.
• Call on companies who have employed interns in the past.
• Send mailings to all Academy related companies within your community.  If available, include press clippings and employer reviews about past internships.
• Arrange to speak at meetings of local business organizations.  Follow up with a letter to each attendee.
• Arrange for press coverage:  newspaper or on local radio or TV.  Describe the Academy program, special Academy features and events, and emphasize internship needs.

• Conduct resume writing workshops.  Invite human resources specialist on-site to help with the workshop.
• Prepare an employment portfolio for each student.
• Distribute Confidential Teacher Evaluation forms to all Academy teachers.
• Set deadline for preparation of student resumes.
• Review resumes and evaluations to make preliminary assessments of students’ suitability for particular types of work.

• Conduct a dress for success seminar in school.
• Do mock interviews in school prior to the actual interviews.
• Organize interview “teams”.
• one Academy representative
• one or more employer representative (preferably from the human resources department and/or the        department where the interns will be working).
• Schedule students for interviews with Academy/employers.
• Collect and analyze interview results.  Make placements.

• Internship Placement or No Placement letters should be sent to students.
• Hold orientation session for students.
• Check for appropriate employment documentation, i.e.; copies of social security cards.
• Distribute an Internship Information Packet.

 Prepare employers by providing them with the following:

• an information packet describing the goals of the internship experience,
• a list of student responsibilities, capabilities, and limitations,
• guidelines to plan in-house mentor programs, lunch seminars, field trips, internship newsletter, end of summer ceremony, or other activities for interns.

• Visit intern at place of work two weeks into the internship and visit again near the end of internship.  Keep reports.
• Cooperate with employer-organized activities; provide logistical support.
• Be available to advise student interns and to consult with and solve problems for employers.
• Seek press coverage and photos of internships in progress.  (This will be useful in next year’s employer recruitment).

• Obtain written reports and confidential evaluation forms from each student on internship experience.
• Evaluate each internship report for writing and content.  Meet with students to discuss both strengths and weaknesses from evaluations; suggest strategies for improvement.
• Determine and submit grades for students receiving high school credit for their internships.

• Obtain supervisors’ evaluations of students.
• Write thank you notes to all supervisors (or reminders to those who don’t complete their evaluations on time).
• Write to CEOs of sponsoring companies.  Include samples of feedback from interns and supervisors.  Encourage them to increase their involvement next year.

• Report internship statistics to NAF (number of participants, etc.) and send copies of press clippings and feedback from sponsors.  Raise ideas and problems to be shared with other programs.
• Start developing internships for next year (most companies prepare their budgets in August).