hiring hacks: how formlabs designed a growth-centered internship program
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How Formlabs Designed a Growth-Centered Internship Program
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Today’s Moderators
Casey MarshallGreenhouse
Lauren MaroevichHackerRank
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What is Greenhouse?
• Greenhouse is an end-to-end solution that optimizes your entire recruiting process
• Talent is critical for building outstanding companies
• World-class recruiting requires focused effort across your entire organization
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Hiring Hacks • Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies and tools that help measurably improve the recruiting process
• In this Hiring Hacks, Greenhouse partnered with HackerRank & Formlabs to discuss: • Several benefits of creating an internship
program• How to structure and build an internship program
– from the ground up • Creative methods for sourcing and vetting interns• Strategies for adapting your internship program
to your company’s stage of growth
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Speaker Highlight
Virginia WhitePeople Operations @ Formlabs
Virginia joined Formlabs in October 2012 when the team was just 10 people and a few tables in a small co-working space. Three years later, she has grown Formlabs into a 22,000 square foot office with headcount of 150 (and still counting)!
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• Benefits to building out an internship program in your organization• How to start from the beginning• How to build and maintain a stronger
program as you grow• How to discover, recruit, and screen great
interns year after year
Topics
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Why have interns?• Soak up the energizing effect• projects & focus• culture & community
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• Build the pipeline for future hires
Why have interns?
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• Sneak in some leadership training
Why have interns?
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• Beta test strategies for scaling your organization• space• projects• recruiting• onboarding
Why have interns?
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Treat interns like full time employees
• Excitement • Responsibility• Autonomy• Trust• Pay
How to start?
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• Take time to define work and scope (1-5 projects)
How to start?
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• Give meaningful work
How to start?
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Set mentorship expectations
How to maintain (and grow)!
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Plan an intern-to-hire program
• Transparency• Defined check-in
points• Collect meaningful
feedback
How to maintain (and grow)!
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Hire someone to run the program!
• former interns are great
How to maintain (and grow)!
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• Leverage your network early on
Finding the best
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Go beyond the career fair• clubs, hackathons• host meetups, give
talks• get all interviewers
involved
Finding the best
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Capture intern experiencesEthan’s Field ReportMeet Ben KatzMeet Jacob Haip
Finding the best
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Use good tools and resources
Finding the best
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• Expand your reach• Move quickly• Hire earlier
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• Plan August• Start September• Hire October - November
When to start?
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Questions