We've only done this once so far - from Swinburne here in Victoria - and the student in question was so good, we hired him (and helped him get his residency).
The Universities seem very keen to make these things work - they gave us a good student, followed up well to make sure everything was working, and I'd without a question do it again (intend to as soon as we have more desk space ;) As long as you've got some structure in place to help train them up while they're with you, and/or some tasks that can be fairly easily segmented off (we used software testing as the starter task, the person in question quickly expanded on the initial requirements to enhance our automated test suites), then you should be fine. It's a great way to filter for promising potential employees. Talk to your nearest University - our experience has been they most of them have some sort of program for this sort of thing, and they want to make sure it works well for industry - I suspect it plays well with attracting students if they can demonstrate strong industry relevance in these sorts of things - so they're keen to make sure it's all good. KevinL On 19/01/2009, at 12:17 , rantalot wrote: > > Has anyone had any experience in using Interns in their business in > Australia? > > SportsPassion is looking at establishing a few positions as > internships and are wondering whether the likely source for filling > the roles will be Uni students in Australia or Uni students who are > travelling to Australia and can work as interns (that is, their visas > permit that). > > Any thoughts/guidance/feedback would be welcome. > > thx > Rob > > --- Kevin Littlejohn Obsidian Consulting Group ph (AU): +613 9355 7844 (ext 2001) ph (UK): +44 20 8816 7317 fax: +613 9350 4097 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
