This Best Practices document offers guidance on creating or improving an internship program that will help your firm attract and retain top talent, including six steps to take to turn interns into full-time hires. 

Retaining top talent has become increasingly difficult. Creating an internship program is a vital strategy for member firms to attract, retain, and develop a strong geoprofessional workforce.

The GBA Best Practices series of documents provides guidance on geoprofessional business-practice issues. The documents are a combination of great ideas and proven actions our members have gathered through collaboration into one document.

Compensation
• Cost-Effective labor
• Exit interview
• Feedback
• Intern development
• Internship
• Mentorship
• Real world experience
• Skill development
• Staffing challenge
• Training
• Transition