In May 2010, NACE college and employer members were surveyed for their insights into the issue of unpaid internships. Overall, there is little evidence from the two surveys of significant growth in the amount of unpaid internships, at least over the past year. In fact, one of the more significant findings from the surveys is that unpaid internships are relatively rare among NACE employer members. Results show that college members are relatively open in allowing their students to take unpaid internships. Nearly 95 percent (94.5 percent) allow the posting of unpaid internships....more

New graduates who took part in an internship program are more likely to have received a job offer than their peers who decided to forgo the experience, according to results of NACE’s 2010 Student Survey.  ...more

Consider how many new college hires come from employer internship programs: Employers taking part in NACE’s 2010 Internship & Co-op Survey reported that 44.6 percent of their Class of 2009 hires came from their own internship programs. ...more

 Among employers responding to NACE’s 2010 Internship Survey, 83.4 percent say internship programs are designed to help the organization recruit entry-level college hires. ...more

College students taking part in paid internships this year can expect to earn about the same as their intern peers earned last year, according to a new study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)....more

Employers will bring on more interns this year than they did last year, according to results of NACE’s 2010 Internship Survey. ...more

Not surprisingly and consistent with results from the 2009 survey, employers are most likely to look first at their experience at the school when deciding whether or not to put it on their roster for intern hiring....more

 Among organizations taking part in NACE’s 2010 Internship Survey, experience with the school topped the list of criteria used to identify schools to target for internship hiring. ...more

 Full-time hiring is down, but employers anticipate increasing the number of interns they bring in this year compared to last year, according to preliminary results of NACE’s 2010 Internship Survey. ...more

The past several years have witnessed a quiet, but significant, movement in the college recruiting process. Employers, while not abandoning traditional avenues of recruitment such as career fairs and on-campus interviewing to generate candidates for their full-time positions, have clearly limited the amount of these traditional activities in which they engage. Their participation in career fairs has declined steadily since 2007....more