Internship Information for Employers
Steps in developing an internship:
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Please develop a job description which includes the desired
qualifications (e.g., major, GPA), skills, job responsibilities,
length of internship and compensation. It is highly recommended
that the internship be a compensated internship. Most Anderson
students (80%) work while going to school so by offering a paid
internship you will increase your skilled candidate pool.
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Students can register to receive academic credit as long as they
work 160 hours during the semester, 10 hours a week and work with
you and their departmental internship coordinator to determine
the academic deliverables for the internship. It is highly
recommended that this intern have a supervisor to report to and
that this supervisor meets regularly with the intern.
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Contact the Anderson Career Services Manager at
(505) 277-8870 or Natalie Mead if you have questions or
when you have developed the job description.
Internship Resources/Information for Students
Resources available to students to find an internship:
- Complete the online Internship Agreement Sheet (https://online.mgt.unm.edu/internships).
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Sign up for your concentration listservs. Many part time jobs
and internships are sent out this way: Concentration Listservs (http://jobs.mgt.unm.edu/listservs.asp)
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Register, submit your resume and check job/internship
postings on Lobo Career Connection (https://unm-csm.symplicity.com/), UNM's
job posting and on-campus recruitment system. Use your UNM
e-mail as your username and your UNM e-mail password as your
password. If you have any problems registering call
(505) 277-2531.
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Talk with your professors, fellow students, student organization
members, anyone and everyone about internships they may know
about.
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Research companies and identify the organizations you want to
contact about internships; use the New Mexico Business Weekly (http://www.mgt.unm.edu/bizjournals),
the Book of Lists for New Mexico (Anderson Career Services and
reference libraries have this), Chambers of Commerce, Monster,
etc.
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Contact the companies directly, either the department you are
interested in working in or the human resources department.
If they don't have internships, and are responsive to one
develop an internship proposal. Part time career related
work is just as valuable so ask about that.
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Use NACElink (http://jobs.mgt.unm.edu/jobsearch.asp),
to search for internships listed across the country.
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Contact Anderson Career Services at (505) 277-8870 or
careerservices@mgt.unm.edu if you
need further assistance or if do find an internship.
Internship Requirements and Process
MGMT 497/697 Internship Course Syllabus - Fall 2011
Internship Requirements
- Intern must work at least 160 hours during the semester to receive 3-hour course credit
- Intern must have successfully completed at least six (6) credit hours of prior concentration coursework
- The internship must be related to the student’s concentration area
- Like all other elective courses in the concentration, this course may only be taken one time for credit towards the completion of the degree
- Intern must have an employer internship supervisor to train, mentor, and evaluate him/her
- Internship can be a paid or unpaid position; if unpaid the Internship must meet Department of Labor ‘test for unpaid Interns’ (http://www.wagehour.dol.gov)
- Internship must be completed within the semester the student is registered for the course, that is, credit for past work cannot be applied
- Students will prepare resume and provide to employer
- Diary of activities will be kept as part of overall work file
- Performance evaluation of the student by employer internship supervisor must be mailed to the course instructor
Academic Deliverable
To receive academic credit for the internship, the student and his/her internship concentration advisor should come
to an agreement on the academic deliverable. The exact form of this academic deliverable is left to the discretion
of the internship concentration advisor. However, the internship concentration advisor would check that: (a) the
learning was commensurate to, or exceeding that of, 3 credit hours of classroom instruction; (b) the learning was
focused within the concentration area of the student; and (c) the student has attained proficient mastery of the
material related to the internship.
Possible academic deliverable could include (but not limited to) one or more of the following:
- A written and/or oral report
- Quantitative and/or qualitative results of the internship project (validated by the employer internship supervisor)
- Interim status reports
- Oral and/or written examination
- Summary report and recommendations from the employer internship supervisor
Internship Process
- The student will have secured an internship and will ensure he/she meets the internship requirements listed above.
- Student will create a proposal for academic deliverable (e.g. on-site project, paper on specific business issue related to concentration, also see the academic deliverable section above for examples) use internship agreement form and a list of concentration courses that he/she has already completed to visit the internship concentration advisor for discussion(s) which may or may not end up with an agreement on the academic deliverable and its evaluation criteria.
- The student will bring the internship concentration advisor his/her proposed academic deliverable. See internship concentration advisor list and download internship agreement form to define academic deliverable
- If an academic deliverable is agreed upon between the student, internship concentration advisor and the employer internship supervisor, the student will provide the internship agreement form to Professor Ross and is able to register for the internship class MGT 497/697. The class is restricted please contact Professor Ross at hrmanswers@unm.edu. If your concentration is human resources, organizational development or organizational leadership you may register in MGT 493 or 565
