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This Week’s Special: “Intern” Intern Coordinators

Have you ever thought of having an intern set up your internship program for you — an “intern” intern coordinator?

We do it all the time here at Super Interns.  We call them our “HR Talent Scouts.”

And for most people, that’s a great first intern to get, because they’ll help you get the rest!  Even if you are a one-person business looking for a few interns, getting an intern to be your HR Talent Scout will help you get your internship program up and running fast!

Get your very own intern HR Talent Scout to help you:

In our Employer Recruitment Program, we have several new intern candidates available for hire, and some who would be ecstatic to be your HR Talent Scout!

We have Karen, Debra, Ian, and Rebecca with talents and interests in human resources, all kinds of writing, and newsletter editing.

We also have more graphic design and social media interns coming in all the time… sign up now to get the next ones in the door!

These interns are open to:

If you’d like to interview and hire these interns, or, be first on the list as new interns arrive, then join our employer recruitment program!  You can also tell us the type of intern you are looking for, and we can put out a request for you.

So what do you do next?

  1. You join our employer recruitment program by selecting one of the payment options below.
  2. We provide you with the resumes, portfolios (if applicable), and contact information of our available interns.
  3. You interview them and offer one the internship.
  4. If the intern accepts, then you’re done.
  5. If the interns you interview don’t meet your needs, you can interview more as they come in until you find one you like.
  6. You can also tell us what kind of intern you need, and we will specifically recruit one for you.  (In some cases, there may be an additional fee.)

The first step though is you have to join our program!

Option 1: One payment of $497 (for one intern)


Option 2: Three easy monthly payments of $199 (for one intern)

Questions?    We are happy to set up a free, 15-minute consultation to answer your questions and make sure this program is a fit for you.  Email julie@superinterns.com with your specific request.

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New Writing Interns Available for Hire!

By the way, we still have some graphic design interns available available for web and art projects.

And now we have writing interns “in da house!”  We’ve dubbed them our “Creative Writing Wizards.”

We have Lauren, Edward, and Kiah who are from Connecticut-area colleges, ready to assist you with any of your writing needs:

Along with writing, they can do related work, including research!

Let them do the bulk of the work for you. In fact, if you don’t have a well-defined project yet, part of the internship can be assembling and defining the project.  You don’t have to have it all figured out in order to start working with interns.

These interns are open to:

If you’d like to interview and hire these interns, or, be first on the list as new interns arrive, then join our employer recruitment program!  You can also tell us the type of intern you are looking for, and we can put out a request for you.

So what do you do next?

  1. You join our employer recruitment program by selecting one of the payment options below.
  2. We provide you with the resumes, portfolios, and contact information of our available interns.
  3. You interview them and offer one the internship.
  4. If the intern accepts, then you’re done.
  5. If the interns you interview don’t meet your needs, you can interview more as they come in until you find one you like.
  6. You can also tell us what kind of intern you need, and we will specifically recruit one for you.  (In some cases, there may be an additional fee.)

The first step though is you have to join our program!

Option 1: One payment of $497 (for one intern)


Option 2: Three easy monthly payments of $199 (for one intern)


Questions?    We are happy to set up a free, 15-minute consultation to answer your questions and make sure this program is a fit for you.  Email julie@superinterns.com with your specific request.

Hey, are you looking for an internship?  Let us help you!  Please send your resume to apply@superinterns.com. 

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2 Super Graphic Design Interns Available!

Need a GRAPHIC DESIGN intern?  Do you need a flier, a logo, or a book cover designed?  Do you need some graphics for your website? You can be a graphic or web design firm, or any solo-preneur, business, or organization, who has graphic design projects.

We’ve got 2 available graphic design interns!  Lisa and Chris are two students from New Haven, Connecticut colleges, who are looking for internships immediately.  They can intern locally or virtually, so you can be anywhere!  They are open to paid or unpaid internships, and they have about 10 hours a week to offer between January and May.

If you’d like to interview, and possibly hire one or both of these interns, and to be on our list as new interns arrive, then join our employer recruitment program by selecting one of the payment options below.

Option 1: One payment of $497 (for one intern)


Option 2: Three easy monthly payments of $199 (for one intern)

Questions?  Looking for something different? If you are looking for another kind of intern — perhaps accounting, social media, writing, or marketing, let us know.  We can find them for you!  Email julie@superinterns.com with your specific request.

We are getting more interns everyday! 

Hey, are you looking for an internship?  Let us help you!  Please send your resume to apply@superinterns.com. 

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What is NOT having an intern COSTING YOU?

We hear from so many people that they just don’t have the time to get an intern.  Every time getting interns (even just one!) starts to make it to the top of the list, something else comes along and pushes it further down.

The real key to making your internship program a top priority is the decision that getting interns is THE most important thing for you and your business.  It’s along the same lines as deciding that you are ready to lose weight or quit smoking.  You have to reach that point of no return; you have to be “fed up enough with the status quo” that the pain of staying where you are is greater than the pain of making the change.  You need to make a permanent shift and draw a line in the sand, where you are determined to not put it off one more day.

Many people think that it takes a large time commitment to get an internship program up and running.  Do you have 15 minutes a day?  Can you make 15 minutes a day?

Surely, you can find 15 minutes in your day that aren’t being put to good use that you can redirect to getting an intern.  It’s small but consistent action that is the key to launching your internship program.  And newsflash: get your first intern to help recruit your next interns, then they’ll be doing the work for you!

If the help and relief of having an intern (even one, let alone an army of interns) isn’t motivating enough, then let’s look at what it’s costing you to not have an internship program, in dollars and cents.

Money, as we all know, is a VERY motivating factor.

Please take out a piece of paper, a pen, and a calculator, or if you are so inclined, open a spreadsheet on your computer.

Now just to get a quick, general idea, feel free to use estimates to start.  We want this to be a relatively simple and easy calculation that you can do in just a matter of minutes. 

However, once you see the power of these numbers, you may be inspired (and we encourage you) to go back and calculate the real numbers as close as you can, because most people grossly over or underestimate their finances.  That way you’ll have a more accurate picture.

Step 1.  Calculate your current hourly rate.

(Note, for the purposes of this exercise, your hourly rate is NOT what you charge your clients. Your hourly rate is what you earn for every hour you work.)

Take the amount of money you earn on a weekly/monthly/annual basis (whatever makes sense for you) and divide it by the number of hours you work on a weekly/monthly/annual basis.  That is your hourly rate.

Example:  If you work 80 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, that is 4,160 hours per year.  If you earn $50,000 per year, then you would divide $50,000 by 4,160.  Your hourly rate is $12.02 per hour. 

Step 2.  Calculate your hourly expenses.

Let’s say your annual expenses (including taxes, travel, equipment, supplies, vendors, postage, and so on) add up to $10,000 per year. Divide that by 4,160 hours per year.  It costs you $2.40 per hour to run your business or organization.

Step 3.  Calculate the income that you keep in your pocket at the end of the day.

$12.02 hourly income – $2.40 hourly expenses = $9.62 hourly income in your pocket.

That means that you actually make and keep $9.62 per hour for every hour you work.

Kind of shocking isn’t it?  The sad part is that these numbers are typical of many solopreneurs, small business owners, and non-profits.  Many are barely making minimum wage and some even less.   

Step 4.  Calculate the hourly rate you would like to achieve.

Let’s say that ideally you would like to be making (and your business, if running efficiently, is capable of making) $200,000 per year working 50 hours a week with 3 weeks of vacation.

Income = $200,000 per year

Work hours = 50 hours per week *49 weeks per year = 2,450 work hours per year

$200,000 income/2,450 work hours = $81.63 per hour income

Let’s say that under ideal conditions (maximizing every dollar you spend and saving all you can) that you would only need to spend $20,000 to make that $200,000.

$20,000 expenses/2,450 work hours = $8.16 per hour expenses

Now calculate the income you keep in your pocket.

$81.63 per hour income – $8.16 per hour expenses = $73.37 per hour income IN YOUR POCKET.

You essentially just increased your net income from $9.62 per hour to $73.37 per hour – that is a seven-fold increase!

Let us assure you, these types of numbers are realistic and possible, when you have the right interns doing the right things.  Now this isn’t an overnight, get-rich-quick scheme.   It may take you 6 to 12 to 24 months to get there, but it is possible to see this type of growth with an internship program, even as a 1-person business or organization.

Step 5.  Calculate what it is really costing you to not have an internship program in your business.

$73.37 ideal income per hour – $9.62 actual income per hour = $63.75 per hour that you are losing by not having an internship program.

Or roughly, $500 per day. 

NOW, let’s say you had a credit card that was being charged $500 per day EVERY DAY for something that you didn’t use, a pure waste of money.  Wouldn’t the FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT thing you did EACH day be to reverse that?

If you saw a $500 charge on your credit card that you didn’t authorize, you’d get on the horn first thing that morning and call the credit card company to reverse the charge.

But this calculation only takes into account pure dollars and cents.

What about all of the other costs?

And the list goes on.  What else can you think of?  If you had to assign a dollar value to these things, what would it be?

You can see that not having an internship program is costing you dearly, in more ways than one.

Once you GET THIS, I mean REALLY GET THIS, you will see that there is nothing more important, and nothing that should have higher priority, than getting interns to help you in your business or organization.

And if you get this, you’ll find that 15 minutes a day or come up with some money to jumpstart your internship program and finally get it off the ground.

Don’t wait another hour.

Need help? We can help get you started and even get you an intern.  Contact us for a complimentary 15-minute consultation.  Email julie@superinterns.com for more details!

Michelle Demers is Co-founder and 1/2 of the Dynamic Duo of Super Interns .  She is also Co-creator of The Super Interns System™, a step-by-step guide to creating, building, and growing winning internship programs.  You can download a free copy of  her ebook, “251 Super Internship Projects” at SuperInterns.com.

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Super Interns Recruitment, At Your Service

Hey!  We have an exciting, brand new service! 

Super Interns is now recruiting interns FOR you.  Yep, you heard us.  FOR you.

We are going out, recruiting, interviewing, and screening intern candidates and providing them to you. 

All you need to do is sign up for our employer recruitment list, interview them, and if you like them, hire them!  You could literally have an intern in a matter of days or weeks.

This week we have three super young women who are smart, enthusiastic, and ready for their next internship.  All are available immediately and can even start prior to Christmas if you’d like, or bright and early in the new year.


All three of these interns are looking for:


…And we are getting more Super Interns in our database every day!


Here’s how it works:

1.  Sign up for the Super Interns employer recruitment list.  You will be put in a first-come, first-served queue. 

***Right now we are specifically recruiting social media interns, but we will be expanding to offer more interns in more fields in the very near future.***

2.  As we continue to get interns recruited and qualified, we’ll turn them over to the next person on the list.  We’ll send you their contact information, and you will reach out directly to them to arrange a phone interview. 

3.  You’ll interview the candidates, and if you like one, you’ll offer one the internship

4.  The intern has the choice to accept or not.  If they accept, then you have a brand new intern!  If not, then you will stay in our queue for up to 3 rounds of interviews.  If you don’t have an intern by then, we’ll invite you for a free 15-minute consultation to see how we can help you get your next intern.


Want to focus on your important work and enjoy the holiday season
while WE GET YOU your next intern?
 

Here’s what you do next:

Join our employer recruitment list by selecting one of the payment options below.  When you check out, you will be on the list in the order that your payment was received. 

Note: depending on the number of subscribers on our list, it could take anywhere from several days to several weeks until you get to the top of the list.  So to get your interns sooner than later, act fast!

Option 1: One payment of $497 (for one social media intern)


Option 2: Three easy monthly payments of $199 (for one social media intern)

 

Questions?  Looking for something different? We also offer custom recruitment services — tell us what kind of intern(s) you need, and we’ll get them for you. Email michelle@superinterns.com with your questions/request.

Hey, are you looking for an internship?  Let us help you!  Please send your resume to apply@superinterns.com. 

Super Interns, to the rescue!

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Register for Get Your Interns NOW – Starts Monday, November 14

We know that you want an intern but the process of getting one feels overwhelming and time-consuming.  And you’re right, it is — when you are trying to do it alone or are inadvertently taking the scenic route to getting there.

We know that getting an intern is important to you, but when faced with your other business and personal priorities, it never quite makes it to the top of the list.

We have a solution for you.

We are going to put you on the straightest, fastest path to getting an intern (or an army of interns if you choose) with minimal time, energy, money, and other resources on your part.

And it’s guaranteed. 

We are holding a 4-week program called Get Your Interns NOW™.

This is a virtual “get it done” program; we’ll be meeting by phone as a group on Monday nights @ 8 pm ET. During these calls we’ll be working together to help you finalize your projects, write and post your internships, interview and select your applicants, plus a lot more. You’ll also get some invidual one-on-one sessions and a bunch of other benefits, but you’ll have to check out the information page for the rest of the details.

We are so confident in your success, that we are *guaranteeing* that if you attend and do your part, you WILL have AT LEAST one intern before the holidays and more if you choose.

All of the information and registration is at http://www.superinterns.com/getyourinternsnow

Sign up now!  We are kicking this off on Monday, November 14!

There’s only a few days left to register – so if you want an intern right a way, and you want your team of interns ready to hit the ground running in the New Year, then, you’ll want to join us.

Get Your Interns NOW™!

To the rescue!

Michelle and Julie

PS: You can do the program with a friend and share the cost – check out the details at:
http://www.superinterns.com/getyourinternsnow

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Do You Hire Experience, Talent, or Personality?

What do you look for in your hires, whether interns, employees, contractors, or vendors?  Actually the priorities and importance can shift greatly for each one of these groups.

When hiring employees, people often focus on experience as a top priority, looking at qualifications like how many years they have spent in the industry, and what previous jobs they did that prepared them for the job you are hiring for.

When hiring contractors and vendors, talent tends to be the focus.  You want someone who you know will deliver, who has a demonstrated expertise in the specialty you are hiring them for, and can probably do whatever it is you need them to do better/faster/cheaper than you could.

With interns, neither experience nor talent are necessarily good indicators of what a potential intern can do.

That’s because the experience often isn’t there, especially for students and younger interns.

They may have had a few relevant classes but their work experience is often times scooping ice cream, mowing lawns, bagging groceries, babysitting, and other similar-level jobs.  Many have not worked in an office or a professional environment before.  Now that is not necessarily the case with older, more mature interns who have had more work and life experience, but it still could be the first time they are working in your field or doing the type of work your internship offers.

And the point of an internship is to develop and hone talent.

Interns may have raw and basic skills (graphic design, for example), but they may not be refined or advanced.  Perhaps they don’t have a keen design eye, fully out-of-the-box creative thinking, or the short cuts, inside secrets, and the big picture (yet).  All of those things are exactly what a great internship is designed to do, helping them grow in these areas.

So if you are aiming to hire your interns purely based on experience or talent, you may very well miss the diamonds in the rough.

However, personality is something you are born with; it’s WHO you are.  Along with that, character is something that one spends a lifetime building from a very young age.  These are things like a sunny disposition, positive outlook, enthusiasm, willingness to learn, strong work ethic, confidence, good communication skills, follows directions, delivers on promises, integrity, maturity, and so on.  These are the qualities and values that are more deeply rooted in the DNA.

That’s not to say that you should overlook interns who may need a confidence boost or help with their communications skills.  That is where the mentorship side of the intern-supervisor relationship is key.

But what you do need to find out in the interview process is “Are they coachable?”  Can they take and appreciate constructive criticism and incorporate feedback to change and grow?

We start coaching and mentoring from our very first contact with a prospective intern.  For many, the interview they have with us is the first one they’ve ever been on.  And in the process, we learn how coachable they are.

Case in point:

Julie called a prospective intern who had emailed her resume.  The intern answered her phone with a “Yeah?” in a “What the hell do you want?” tone of voice.

Julie could have ended the call right there, but instead she said, “This is Julie from Super Interns, you submitted an application to intern with us.”

(The intern was mortified and dead silent.  The crickets were noticeably audible.)

Julie said, “If you were selected for this internship, you would have to make calls to the press on our behalf.  So if a reporter called you back, how would you answer the phone?”

Then, in the nicest, most professional manner she could muster, the prospective intern said, “Hi this is Jennifer (not her real name), how can I help you?”

Julie said, “Great!  That’s exactly what we are looking for.”

They continued the rest of the interview, the intern was hired, and she ended up being one of our best and brightest, interning for close to 4 years with us.

If Julie had concluded the interview at the first “Yeah?” we would missed out on this truly stellar intern who just needed a little guidance and mentorship.

Danny Meyer, owner of Union Square Cafe in New York City and author of Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business says something to this effect, “I hire those who I’d like to invite over my house for dinner, break bread with, and get to know on a personal level.  I can train anyone to carry a tray or open a bottle of wine, but I can’t train them how to be nice or interesting.”

Actually, whether it’s interns, employees, contractors, or vendors, personality, character, and coachability should be your top priorities in your hiring decision, followed by talent, and lastly, experience.

Michelle Demers is Co-founder and 1/2 of the Dynamic Duo of Super Interns .  She is also Co-creator of The Super Interns System™, a step-by-step guide to creating, building, and growing winning internship programs.  You can download a free copy of  her ebook, “251 Super Internship Projects” at SuperInterns.com.

 

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Get Your Interns NOW Webinar

 

 

Get Your Interns NOW™
Breaking Through the Barriers

A free webinar by Super Interns

Thursday, November 3, 2011
8 pm ET/7 pm CT/6 pm MT/5 pm ET


Click Here to Register

Would you like to recruit an intern, or an army of interns, for the 2012 year, and you are not sure where to start?

Maybe you’d even like some end-of-year help and someone who could start ASAP?

Have you been stuck finding an intern or getting your internship program off the ground?

Good news!  You are not alone, and we can help get you over the hump.

Come to this webinar to find out the common barriers and the solutions to breaking through them, such as:

Do any one of these represent you?  Maybe all of them do to some degree or another…

Then you absolutely must be on our webinar on Thursday, because it’s time to break through these barriers once and for all and get your interns now!

Click Here to Register

Feel free to forward this page to your friends who may like to join us.  See you on the webinar!
To the rescue!

Michelle and Julie
The Dynamic Duo of Super Interns

PS: All of these barriers have doable solutions.  We’ll show you how.  It’s your turn to get the interns you need and deserve.  Make 2012 the year your business takes off!  No more settling for less.  Don’t miss this!

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Create Your Own Intern University in Your Business

Please join us this Friday, October 28, 2011 at 1 pm ET/12 noon CT/11 am MT/10 am PT for a FREE 60-minute teleclass:

Create Your Own Intern University in Your Business

We’ll be interviewing Super Interns System graduates Cheryl McLeod and Lee Rackliff of Digital Surgeons (a super great web marketing company) out of New Haven, Connecticut.

They’ve gone from a small, behind-the-scenes internship program to an all out “Intern University” that is featured on their website and attracting great talent.

Check out this link: http://www.digitalsurgeons.com/careers/

They’ll share their experience, secrets, and path to building a stellar internship program that has grown with their business and is now an integral component of it.

Have you had trouble recruiting interns, or are you stuck getting your internship program off the ground? 

Announcing the Get Your Interns Now™ program

On this call, we’ll also be sharing our brand new 4-week  Get Your Interns Now™ program that will fast track you to getting your interns.  It’s not just talk, it’s action.  We’ll be helping you to actively recruit your interns, and you will have interns by the end of this program.

The next Get Your Interns Now™ program starts November 7 and meets for 4 Mondays at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT.  You could have your interns signed, sealed, and delivered by late November/early December, well before the holidays.

Not only could you get a little extra end-of-year help, but you’ll be ready to hit the ground running in the New Year with a team of talented interns to support you in growing your business or organization.  Why not make 2012 your year to get the help you need and deserve?

So put this call in your calendar, grab a coffee or lunch, and dial in.  Most of all, grab your notebook because you won’t want to miss anything!  See you Friday!

Here’s the FREE call number:

Conference dial-in number: (712) 432-0900
Participant access code: 991773#

Super Interns is not charging for this call, however long distance phone charges and/or cell phone minute usage may apply.  Check with your phone service provider.

We expect a lot of people on this call, and we have a lot to cover, so please dial in 5 minutes early, as we’ll be starting right at the top of the hour.  And feel free to invite your business friends and colleagues, who could use and benefit from this information!

To the rescue!
Michelle and Julie

PS: If you want to be notified of future calls and other free resources, please join our mailing list at www.SuperInterns.com.  Simply download our free ebook, and you’ll be on the list!

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Double Your Network Marketing Business with Interns

We are offering a free webinar open to the public, and you are invited!

Many solo-professionals and small business owners pursue a network marketing business full-time, part-time, or in addition to another business they own.  Many service people use network marketing businesses to provide complementary products to their clients and customers.

It doesn’t matter what kind of network marketing business you are part of, you can work with interns!  And interns do want to work with you!

So if you do Mary Kay, Silpada, Pampered Chef, MonaVie, Juice Plus, or another network marketing business, this is for you.

Here are the details:

Double Your Network Marketing Business with Interns

Michelle Demers and Julie Braun
the Dynamic Duo of Super Interns

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

8 pm ET/7 pm CT/6 pm MT/5 pm PT

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

On the Double Your Network Marketing Business with Interns webinar, you’ll learn:

PS:  Even if you don’t have a network marketing business, you’ll learn how to double your business with interns.

PPS:  If you are an intern, you can learn what network marketing businesses need, so you can get an internship with one.

To attend, please the registration link.  There are limited seats, so sign up today!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

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