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May 6, 2022 24 min

113. Isabella Johnston & Creating Real Internship Programs

from Thought Leader Hosted by Thought Partner Group

🚨 Are interns interned: what are real intern programs? 00:46 👉 Unpaid internship is dangerous: seven criteria around the Department of Labor's requirements. 02:23 😇 How Isabella helps employers to ensure real intern programs are in place. 04:10 🖥️ Annual membership for employers model: matching intern to employee through personality tools. 07:24 ⚡ Peers mentoring and reverse mentoring: teaching employers to empower their interns. 09:16 💰 ROI: recruiting process is faster, onboard is faster, keeping retention and end to end processes. 11:15 🤝 Like match.com but with smooth communication: algorithm matches potential internships. 13:36 👔 Creating a talend pipeline, more engagement and improving processes in companies. 15:09 😎 Isabelle’s platform is doing onboarding, assessments, and development plans in managing relationships between her clients. 16:01 ✨ If there's a gap in the marketplace, you have to work extra hard to find how to speak to the people. 16:57 ⌛ Internship is short: the problem is with managing of internships. 18:27 🆓 Schools and students can work with Isabella for free. 20:00 🔮 The future of work: we don’t prepare for jobs today, but for tomorrow. 22:18 Connect with Isabella: www.linkedin.com/in/isabellajohnston 🤓 Connect with us: www.resonateengine.com ▶️ Check us out at: www.thoughtpartnergroup.com 💡 Screw Harvard, go to Crazy MBA: www.crazymba.com

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Founder of Employers4Change and Intern Whisperer, Isabella Johnston is an entrepreneur with years of experience in DEI recruiting. She created a software solution for employers and HR managers to reduce employer bias and assess, manage, and develop employer and intern skills for their business. Today, Isabella shares how her experience in education and understanding of young people helped her to achieve creating great programs, so they can get real skills. Isabella explains why unpaid internships and bad programs are affecting the future of the workforce and asserts that the employers should provide real experiences for interns. Her software helps employers find good candidates through a very deep system of psychographic matchmaking but also helps them become better mentors to bring a change to the workforce.

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