Actually, it’s worse. It’s like shutting it after the horse has bolted, run several miles, joined a circus, put its foals through college and checked in to the Lazy Pastures equine retirement home.

Nowadays, if you want the best, you need to start engaging early. (With students, not horses. ) And by that we mean running an internship scheme.

Of course, not all internships are equal. Thankfully, we’re admirably placed to know what makes a programme unique and best in class. So our knowledge can point out what makes your scheme shine, and where it might need polishing up a little.

We’ll gauge precisely how much the internship journey contributes to a positive understanding of your recruitment brand.  Using our assessment criteria (which are slowly becoming very famous) we’ll talk to your interns before, during and after their internships. Our structured interviews will find out what they thought worked, what didn’t, how everything made them feel, whether you delivered against the promises you’d made, and so on. 

We’re well worth the time invested. After all, we’ve helped build exceptional programmes, as the copious awards our clients have won illustrate.

Clients cite the following benefits from this review:

• It helps you to improve the internship programme, increasing the likelihood of  interns accepting full-time graduate roles
• A well-reviewed programme is more likely to win awards, and so raise the profile of talent development within your organisation
• Knowing what interns really rate – and what they don’t – can help build a programme that’s far more time- and cost-effective