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Ask YC: NewsCred looking for interns. Any tips where to find em?
Hi all - we're looking for one or two interns. Ideally, people in college who want to work in a startup part time and earn a little cash.
How have other startups on HN gone about finding good interns? University job boards? Word of mouth?
Any suggestions on the experience? We want to make it as fulfilling (and fun) for both sides as possible, so always looking to see what worked for other people. Thanks!
- rishi 18y agoI used Craigslist. In my experience part time student programmers are a waste of time. But you never know you could get lucky.
- shafqat 18y agoHmm, interesting. Why was it a waste of time? We're have a bunch of different roles we could fulfill - techie, but also more general community manager/sales/"help everyone on the team with everything" type role. Looking back at my college days, I'd much rather do this than some of the crap jobs I used to have.
- leftnode 18y agoGo speak to professors directly, or find out if local colleges have an IPP (my college, for example http://ecs.utdallas.edu/ipp/ http://ecs.utdallas.edu/ipp/) program where you can register your company so they can help you out. Each professor (especially ones who teach juniors and seniors) know the talented kids in their classes and they can help you out. If the intern position doesn't require college experience, try high school computer science teachers. They usually know their star students better and the kids would much rather work doing some programming than working at Subway.