Hiring Hacks: How Formlabs Designed a Growth-Centered Internship Program

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How Formlabs Designed a Growth-Centered Internship Program

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Today’s Moderators

Casey MarshallGreenhouse

Lauren MaroevichHackerRank

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What is Greenhouse?

• Greenhouse is an end-to-end solution that optimizes your entire recruiting process

• Talent is critical for building outstanding companies

• World-class recruiting requires focused effort across your entire organization

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Hiring Hacks • Each webinar in the series focuses on strategies and tools that help measurably improve the recruiting process

• In this Hiring Hacks, Greenhouse partnered with HackerRank & Formlabs to discuss: • Several benefits of creating an internship

program• How to structure and build an internship program

– from the ground up • Creative methods for sourcing and vetting interns• Strategies for adapting your internship program

to your company’s stage of growth

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Speaker Highlight

Virginia WhitePeople Operations @ Formlabs

Virginia joined Formlabs in October 2012 when the team was just 10 people and a few tables in a small co-working space. Three years later, she has grown Formlabs into a 22,000 square foot office with headcount of 150 (and still counting)!

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• Benefits to building out an internship program in your organization• How to start from the beginning• How to build and maintain a stronger

program as you grow• How to discover, recruit, and screen great

interns year after year

Topics

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Why have interns?• Soak up the energizing effect• projects & focus• culture & community

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• Build the pipeline for future hires

Why have interns?

• Sneak in some leadership training

Why have interns?

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• Beta test strategies for scaling your organization• space• projects• recruiting• onboarding

Why have interns?

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Treat interns like full time employees

• Excitement • Responsibility• Autonomy• Trust• Pay

How to start?

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• Take time to define work and scope (1-5 projects)

How to start?

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• Give meaningful work

How to start?

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Set mentorship expectations

How to maintain (and grow)!

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Plan an intern-to-hire program

• Transparency• Defined check-in

points• Collect meaningful

feedback

How to maintain (and grow)!

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Hire someone to run the program!

• former interns are great

How to maintain (and grow)!

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• Leverage your network early on

Finding the best

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Go beyond the career fair• clubs, hackathons• host meetups, give

talks• get all interviewers

involved

Finding the best

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Capture intern experiencesEthan’s Field ReportMeet Ben KatzMeet Jacob Haip

Finding the best

Use good tools and resources

Finding the best

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• Expand your reach• Move quickly• Hire earlier

• Plan August• Start September• Hire October - November

When to start?

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Questions