You're the founder of a hot startup. You and your small team believe in the problem you're solving for your customers, and work hard to deliver the best experience possible.
Here's why you need interns.
Interns are some of the highest ROI hires a company(especially a startup) can make.
This is because it's mostly a part-time position, making the stipend lower than a full-time salary + if you hire the best, the interns give their all to your mission, especially if they're a #StartupIntern 🚀
If you deliver a great learning experience for your interns, they might end up becoming a full time employee at your startup once they graduate. Imagine hiring someone who knows how your company works in-and-out and them just coming in and executing on tasks.
By hiring interns, you create a chain of prospective future hires that become kick-ass employees.
There are always those small projects that no one seems to have the bandwidth to do. Especially in a startup, where everyone's doing everything, it can be difficult to prioritise the low-hanging fruit (since there are so many bigger things everyone could be doing)
Here's where your interns come into play. An internship usually lasts 1-3 months, which is good enough time for a short project to be executed ⚙️
Interns, especially #StartupInterns, are driven human beings who crave real industry experience and would love to execute on the things that you're putting off. Mentoring them while they execute can generate great results for your business.
As a startup, you probably have less than 50 employees. Sometimes even less than 15! Your early hires are important as they're the ones that take up leadership positions as your company scales.
Hiring a few interns gives your current employees a great experience of being in a leadership role and managing a team. This sets them up for future success as your company scales.
Sometimes we all get caught up in our good ol' ways of thinking. Young interns, who are either fresh graduates or students, bring-in a unique set of perspectives and problem solving skills to the table.
Students are usually used to the jugged mindset of thinking and can provide interesting insights into brainstorming solution to your problems.
Face it. Students today know more about social media than you do. They're on it all the time!
If you're the founder who's not very social media savvy, then bringing in a social media intern can do wonders for your startup's insta-game.
Since interns are more likely to be familiar with the latest trends, caught up with the latest memes, they're more likely to put a trendy spin on your marketing campaigns that would generate tangible, trackable results.
Interns can be good for your brand. People talk. When you give an internship to a student, they talk about you with their friends, family, and teachers. If you're a B2C product, this would help you create a cult around your brand. If you're a B2B product, the interns resume acts as a possible entry-point into selling to bigger companies.
This is an underrated aspect of hiring interns.
Not sure if you need a social media hire yet? How about a dedicated designer?
Don't worry. Just hire an intern for the position for a few months and see if it improves the metrics you're looking to improve. If it does, hire someone for a full-time role, or just promote the intern.
An intern is basically a Minimum Viable Hire 😉
Those were some of the reasons why we think you should hire interns at your startup. If you're interested in hiring the top 10% of our country's talent, go ahead an post a job here.
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