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The No. 1 Tip for Hiring a Successful Summer Intern

Insperity

Your goal is to provide young professionals with meaningful work so you can assess their work ethic, intellect and potential as long-term employees. Basic questions to consider when planning a summer internship program: How long will interns work? It gives you the flexibility to have them work on any project as needed.

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can I give more feedback to someone I recently fired, having to contact multiple people when calling in sick, and more

Ask a Manager

While I totally get that you’re thinking this could be genuinely helpful to her, it’s not going to come across that way to her — it’s going be “why the hell is the person who fired me and who I no longer work for emailing me weeks later to continue to talk about what I’ve done wrong?” ” 4.

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Captain Awkward and I answered some letters

Ask a Manager

Jennifer has covered the logistics of the how so well. (Bestowing unearned praise for something you hope someone will do is an Ask A Manager special, I steal it all the time). Alison: Yes, yes, yes! I second all this advice. What I’ll add is that you should give yourself mental permission for this. hour-long phone conversations (!)

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taking notes on an iPad during an interview, the poo police, and more

Ask a Manager

I do not question whether this is legal; unfortunately there’s no doubt, given the state this resort is located in. But I do feel like it’s important for my supervisor to know that the problems I’ve been having don’t reflect my normal work ethic, and that I honestly feel bad about letting them down.