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Imagine you're in college and have snagged your dream internship--only to wake up and realize it has been taken away just three weeks before your start date.
That was the reality for many students Wednesday morning as Tesla withdrew a handful of summer 2024 internship offers amid company-wide layoffs that affected more than 10 percent of its global workforce, according to Reuters.
Miami University student Joshua Schreiber was one of the interns that lost his spot. In a LinkedIn post, Schreiber said he received an email from Tesla about flight details only to receive another email less than three hours later saying his offer has been taken away.
"Yes, it sucks my start date was just 3 weeks away," Schreiber wrote in the post. "Yes, it sucks I spent thousands on housing. Yes, it sucks to experience this in college."
Across the country, young adults are struggling to find internships as companies manage layoffs. Many internship programs have shrunk their class sizes in the last two years-Fortune found that graphics chipmaker Nvidia hired 600 interns in 2023 as opposed to 1,500 in 2022 while Google's parent company Alphabet also reportedly took less interns last year.
Now, some ex-Tesla interns and other students without summer positions are still searching for an internship. And that's a boon for other businesses who still need to hire some interns.
Mirella Armington Cortez, diversity recruitment manager at government contracting company Fearless, says there are many ways for employers to find last-minute interns-such as getting into contact with different universities.
"For example, if you are looking for software developers, then my suggestion would be to go to the Career Center, request if they can provide any candidates that are available upon graduation or or entering their senior year," she says. "Then also communicating with the Department of Computer Science, for example, and getting connected with those professors there and seeing if they are able to showcase those opportunities to the students right before summer break."
Recruiters can also reach potential candidates directly through hiring platforms like LinkedIn, Indeed and Handshake. These platforms have software that helps hiring managers filter through student profiles that match job postings and allow them to invite candidates to apply.
To make the most out of last-minute hiring opportunities, early careers platform Handshake created a guide of advice for recruiters this spring cycle. The post says it's important to polish your brand strategy-whether that be sharing testimonials from previous interns, social media content about the experience or new company news. It also says to be transparent about job descriptions and suggests hiring candidates on a skill basis-checking for specific competencies, such as whether or not a candidate can use Python-rather than focusing on degree types or previous job experience. A 2023 Gallup Poll found that only 41 percent of undergraduate students have had an internship and 27 percent of first-generation students still in college have had one. Hiring candidates on a skill basis allows businesses to diversify their talent pool, a Handshake blog post says.
Armington Cortez says it's also important to keep diversity top of mind when hiring interns. To do this, she suggests reviewing schools that have diverse demographics, seeing if a student is part of an affinity organization on campus and recruiting from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She adds that hiring managers can also join the Slack channels of affinity organizations like Latinos in Tech to pitch job opportunities.
Once you know how to reach students, it's time to offer a compelling opportunity that young adults want to apply to. Haber says companies first and foremost must be paying their interns. Beyond that, she says it's important to give interns the opportunity to regularly engage with other staff members in person to form connections and to have programs that let interns across the entire program interact and meet each other.
"Some of my most valuable experiences were being able to jump into other teams' projects and sitting down with other team members and getting to know them to build my network there," she says. "Creating camaraderie or across the other interns and giving them an avenue to connect personally because those relationships could incredibly impact their networks and their lives as they go beyond those walls."
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Imagine you're in college and have snagged your dream internship--only to wake up and realize it has been taken away just three weeks before your start date.
That was the reality for many students Wednesday morning as Tesla withdrew a handful of summer 2024 internship offers amid company-wide layoffs that affected more than 10 percent of its global workforce, according to Reuters.
Miami University student Joshua Schreiber was one of the interns that lost his spot. In a LinkedIn post, Schreiber said he received an email from Tesla about flight details only to receive another email less than three hours later saying his offer has been taken away.
"Yes, it sucks my start date was just 3 weeks away," Schreiber wrote in the post. "Yes, it sucks I spent thousands on........
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