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Ask HN: How do you find interns?
Hi HN
Looking to provide some internship opportunities in my company in the field of data science. How would you go about finding candidates? Any service you are aware of to match companies and candidates?
- ggm 4y agoContact Data science departments. Melbourne University has one. Cardiff University does O/R and probably has heaps of candidates. The department wants to help. They need you as much as you need the interns. Royal Holloway College is ground central for O/R Get to data science conferences which have a student paper programme. If they do poster sessions, your candidate pool is virtually hanging out their C.V. in the foyer for you to read and standing there waiting to be asked. Pay your interns. If word leaks out you fund, you will have to sandbag the front door.
- shubb 4y agoAnother option in the UK is the "knowledge transfer partnership"system. Sometimes you have an academic level problem that needs a year or two of work to solve. KTP partners you with a university, which recruits a graduate to work on your problem under the supervision of some lecturers. I highlight this because sometimes interns are used for grunt work, but other times they are used for 'moonshot' projects or a way of bringing in new skills and thinking. This seems like a better way of doing that. I think there is some government money for it also.
- yuppie_scum 4y agoGo to job fairs at schools.