Building an Effective Summer Internship Program

With high school and college coming to a close, many students will be on the hunt for internship opportunities. Creating an internship program within your company can be extremely beneficial as the right candidates can make significant contributions to your business and potentially join your team full time. Here are some effective ways to create an internship program that reaps huge collaborative benefits for both the intern and you.

1. Know what you want

Finding an internship is easier than ever these days with sites like College Recruiter, ScriptEd, and Internships.com. Companies have access to a number of candidates and their list of skill sets instantly. But in order to find the right talent, you need to know what you are looking for. A great way to figure this out is to ask your employees. Make a list of necessary qualities an intern will need to get the job done and choose your candidates according. This will not only improve company culture by getting your employees involved in this decision, but it will help you focus in on who will be the best asset to your internship program.

2. Onboard Efficiently

An intern's first 90 days might be the only time they have with your company. Therefore, your onboarding processes needS to be condensed in order to bring the intern up to speed on the workload, company values, and company culture. A great way to streamline this process is to get the intern acclimated to a relevant project that acts as kind of an orientation as well. With your guidance, this will allow the intern to get comfortable with higher priority projects.

3. Empower Interns with high priority projects

According to Business 2 Community, “many companies fear giving valuable projects to their interns.” But they have found that when interns are given more responsibility, they really deliver.
Empowerment is key. Some ways to do this is by inviting your interns to sit in on meetings and customer service calls or encourage them to build relationships with clients and give them projects that they can own. Not only will this allow interns to feel as though they are of value to the company, it will also help them build critical problem-solving skills and motivate them to return to your company full time if the opportunity presents itself.

4. Company Culture

Every company has their own culture, through office traditions, weekly social events, initiatives or overall work environment. It's important to allow interns an opportunity to be a part of that and feel a sense of camaraderie. While most internships don’t take the time to develop a community among interns, creating an effective internship program is about building a relationship with the intern so that they are more open to collaboration and feedback, which ultimately benefits the company.

5. Invest in training

Entrepreneur. com suggests heavily investing in training for your interns. While it may seem counterintuitive to designate resources for training when interns are only with the company for a short time, that is not the case if you want your interns to return to your organization.
“If interns feel their learning and growth was significant in the few months they were with your company, they are more likely to continue investing in themselves and their growth by returning full time.”

This investment can reap rewards and allow for a successful program that will make interns want to stay with you and help grow your business.

For help with creating a successful intern program, contact VertiSource HR® today! Call 855.565.VSHR (8747) or email us at info@vertisourcehr.com.

Maximizing Payroll on a Small Business Budget with VertiSource HR® Cloud

Working with a small business budget is all about maximizing. Making the best of what you have, and strategizing to get exactly what you need at the lowest cost. But budgeting doesn’t mean employee benefits and payroll have to be compromised. Both of these are vital when running a business despite the fact that they can drain essential resources for your budget.

At VertiSource HR®, we have developed a strategy for those with small business budgets to make the most out of their payroll.

The VertiSource HR® Cloud contains a series of modules that can help your business stay organized, efficient and keep your costs down. The payroll module makes its easy to approve, manage and execute payroll for all your employees on time.

All your data is automatically integrated with other VertiSource HR® modules, such as onboarding and hiring information so you don’t have to rekey anything from one system to another.

You can quickly review timesheets, process your payrolls, and even see payroll status in real-time.

Employees can also view payroll and benefits information from their computer, tablet or smartphone which can save you a great deal of time, as well as open the lines of communication with your staff.

Access to payroll data is granted to individuals in your organization as needed, and you can control what specific data, fields, and reports each individual can see.

Your payroll can even include your brand logos on checks, so your employees have a consistent experience.

This time saver can maximize your small business budget by taking the headache out of payroll and transforming into a well organized system.

For more information on how to implement VertiSource HR® Cloud into your small business budget, visit us as www.vertisourcehr.com or speak with a representative at 855.565.VSHR (8747)

Take advantage of our payroll and human resource services so you can focus on the future of your business, worry free today.

Improve Your Onboarding Process with VertiSource HR® Cloud

You probably spend a lot of time on candidate sourcing, screening and the selection processes. Because of this, it can be extremely frustrating when new employees don’t stay with your company for long.  Between recruiting, turnover and the lost productivity, costs can rise while many other key performance indicator percentages can go down like employee retention and relationships with customers.

Yet, despite this, many companies don’t put the time and resources into developing an effective employee onboarding process. 

The Importance of Onboarding Organization

Onboarding is a core component of your employment brand and the foundation on which employee engagement is built. Getting organized in this area can help your business and enable less issues when it comes to recruiting and introducing new members to your team.

At VertiSource HR, we have developed a 100% web based HR software that couples with our HR services, called the VertiSource HR® Cloud. We developed this program to provide a simplified version of HR strategies so that you can focus on the growth and development of your business. This service will save you countless hours every week by delivering industry-leading payroll, benefits, hiring and more, all with the help of our HR experts.

How It Works

Within the VertiSource HR® Cloud, we have created a module specially to speed up and organize the onboarding process.  This module will capture employee demographic information, federal, state and local tax filing forms. With a complete set of digital and online forms combined with electronic signature functionality, new hires can get started fast with complete, accurate records and data. All forms and documents associated with Onboarding and Enrollment are securely tracked and stored. With customized workflows and tracking, your Human Resources department can enjoy a seaming integration as the data gathered during the hiring process automatically gets stored all in one place.

How easy is that?

To find out more information about this simple and effective onboarding tool and other beneficial and time saving features VertiSource HR® Cloud contains, visit us at http://www.vertisourcehr.com or speak to a VSHR rep by calling 855.565.VSHR today!