Ask once. Use everywhere.
Enter your start date once, in Step 3. Your recruiting timeline, preparation checklist, feedback dates and your intern's own plan all count from it. You are never asked the same thing twice.
Internship Program Builder
Everything you need to build your first internship program.
Answer questions about your organization. The Builder turns your decisions into a program manual, a plan for your intern, and the tools to run it all.
This is not another guide. You don't need to become an internship expert.
Build it
Design the whole internship before the intern arrives.
Fourteen steps, from why you want an intern through to how you'll learn from the experience. Start with the end in mind, so nothing gets figured out in week six.
- 1 Define Your Why
- 2 Identify the Opportunity
- 3 Design the Position
- 4 Determine the Investment
- 5 Build the Support Structure
- 6 Plan Recruitment
- 7 Plan Selection
- 8 Prepare for Arrival
- 9 Design the Orientation
- 10 Define Learning & Development
- 11 Structure the Work
- 12 Plan Support & Feedback
- 13 Close Out the Internship
- 14 Plan for Reflection & What's Next
The point of all this
More internships.
Better internships.
There is more student demand for internships than there are internships. Most of the organizations who could host one simply don't know where to start. That is the gap this closes.
You approve every word.
The Builder drafts from your answers. You edit it, regenerate it, or accept it as it stands. Only what you approve reaches your manual, so it stays a document you would actually hand to someone.
Change your mind safely.
Alter an earlier answer and anything built from it is flagged for you to look at again. Nothing you approved is ever silently rewritten.
What you finish with
Three things you can use on Monday.
For your organization
Internship Program Operating Manual
How your organization runs internships. Your finalized decisions, in one place, short enough that people actually read it.
For your intern
Intern Work Plan
Their roadmap: the role, the project, the milestones, what they'll learn, who supports them, and how the experience ends.
For putting it into action
Implementation Tools
The interview guide, the pre-arrival checklist, the day one agenda, the evaluations. Built from what you already told us.
Start
Name your program and begin.
You can change any of it later. Nothing is locked in, and you can leave and come back.
Not sure yet? Open the worked example and look around first.