Results From NACE's 2008 Experiential Education Survey
Gauge the effectiveness of your internship/co-op program with data from NACE's 2008 Experiential Education Survey. Get a broad national view of the market for internship and co-op students and discover which recruiting methods your colleagues say work the best. You'll get insight into the hiring expectations of competing recruiters, and find out how much other organizations expect to pay these student workers. You'll want to use this report to benchmark your own internship or co-op program!
The 2008 survey delivers:
- Hiring projections by sector, region, and type of employer (where data are available),
- Salaries for interns and co-ops-by broad field of study and year of study, and by major (where data are available),
- Data on the percentage of employers that offer benefits by sector and region and what the most common offerings are,
- Offer, acceptance, and conversion rates by sector and region, and
- Many other valuable details from the most recent survey of employers who hire internship and co-op students.
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Other Titles of Interest:
The Employer's Guide to College
Recruiting and Hiring
Building a Premier
Internship Program: A Practical Guide for Employers
Table of Contents
About the Survey
Executive Summary: Internship and Co-op Programs: A Key Component in College Recruiting
Intern/Co-op Hiring Projections
- Internship hiring projections
- Figure 1: Yearly changes to hiring projections for interns
- Figure 2: Internship hiring expectations, by sector, region, and overall
- Figure 3: Changes to internship hiring, by employer type
- Figure 4: Yearly changes to hiring projections for co-ops
- Figure 5: Co-op hiring expectations, by sector, region, and overall
- Figure 6: Changes to co-op hiring, by employer type
Internship and Co-op Programs: An Overview
- Types of programs and program focus
- Figure 7: Primary focus of internship programs, by sector, region, and overall
- Figure 8: Primary focus of co-op programs, by sector, region, and overall
- Satisfaction with intern/co-op hires
- Figure 9: Employer satisfaction with prior intern hires (based on primary focus of program)
- Figure 10: Employer satisfaction with prior co-op hires (based on primary focus of program)
Conversion and Retention
- Intern/co-op conversion rates
- Figure 11: Internship conversion rates
- Figure 12: Co-op conversion rates
- Figure 13: Internship conversion rates by sector and region
- Figure 14: Co-op conversion rates by sector and region
- Figure 15: Internship conversion rates by employer type
- Intern/co-ops as a percentage of new college hires
- Figure 16: Average percent of full-time hires that come from internship/co-op programs
- Figure 17: Average percent of total hires from employer’s internship program, by employer type
- Retention
- Figure 18: Average retention rates among employers with formal programs versus those without
- Figure 18: Average retention rates among employers with formal programs versus those without
Recruiting Methods
- Figure 19: Intern recruiting methods: use and effectiveness
- Figure 20: Co-op recruiting methods: use and effectiveness
Cycle Time
Compensation Benefits
- Signing bonuses
- Figure 21: Percent of employers offering signing bonuses to interns/co-ops by sector, region, and overall
- Figure 22: Signing bonus amounts—interns by sector, region, and overall
- Figure 23: Signing bonus amounts—co-ops by sector, region, and overall
- Salaries
- Figure 24: Paid versus unpaid programs
- Figure 25: Average salaries by program focus
- Figure 26: Average intern salaries by broad field of study
- Figure 27: Average undergraduate intern salaries by broad field of study and region
- Figure 28: Average undergraduate intern salaries by broad field of study and year of study
- Figure 29: Average intern salaries by major
- Figure 30: Average co-op salaries by broad field of study
- Figure 31: Average undergraduate co-op salaries by broad field of study and region
- Figure 32: Average undergraduate co-op salaries by broad field of study and year of study
- Figure 33: Average co-op salaries by major
- Internship and co-op benefits
- Figure 34: Intern benefits overall and by sector and region
- Figure 35: Co-op benefits overall and by sector and region
- Figure 36: Relocation assistance offered to interns, overall and by sector and region
- Figure 37: Relocation assistance offered to co-ops,
overall and by sector and region
Conclusion
Survey Respondents
- Respondents by sector
- Respondents by organization
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