Requirements for Hiring an 91ºÚÁÏÍø Intern

Internship supervisors must be willing and available to provide adequate training and regular on-site supervision of their 91ºÚÁÏÍø student intern, meeting with individual interns a minimum of 30 minutes on a biweekly basis.

Criteria for an Experience to be Defined as an Internship 
To ensure that an experience – whether it is a traditional internship or one conducted remotely or virtually – is educational, and thus eligible to be considered a legitimate internship by the  definition, the following criteria must be met: 

• The experience must be an extension of the classroom: a learning experience that provides for applying the knowledge gained in the classroom. It must not be simply to advance the operations of the employer or be the work that a regular employee would routinely perform.
• The skills or knowledge learned must be transferable to other employment settings.
• The experience has a defined beginning and end, and a job description with desired qualifications.
• There are clearly defined learning objectives/goals related to the professional goals of the student’s academic coursework. 
• There is supervision by a professional with expertise and educational and/or professional background in the field of the experience.
• There is routine feedback by the experienced supervisor.  
• There are resources, equipment and facilities provided by the host employer that support learning objectives/goals. 

Internship Training Requirements
Review the following guidelines to determine whether your internship program is in compliance with the federal .

• The training, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to that which would be given in a vocational school;
• The training is for the benefit of the trainees or students;
• The trainees or students do not displace regular employees, but work under their close observation;
• The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees or students, and on occasion his operations may actually be impeded;
• The trainees or students are not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the training period; and
• The employer and the trainees or students understand that the trainees or students are not entitled to wages for the time spent in training.

Compensation