{"id":591,"date":"2018-03-23T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/?page_id=591"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:40:14","slug":"palomar-college-internship-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/palomar-college-internship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Palomar College&#8217;s Internship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Internships are a win-win-win for students, local companies, and Palomar College.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Internships can help your company:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Build its talent pipeline while creating meaningful on-the-job learning opportunities for students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increase productivity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evaluate prospective employees under real working conditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduce recruitment and training costs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improve retention<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other benefits:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Palomar College covers the Worker\u2019s Compensation Insurance for unpaid interns<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students earn course credit through Cooperative Education classes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To be an internship host, we will ask your company to:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Provide an opportunity for the student to learn new skills<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work with the student to set 3 learning objectives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide training, guidance, mentorship, and constructive feedback to the student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participate in a brief site visit (10 minutes) with an instructor from Palomar College during the semester<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sign off on brief monthly reports prepared by the student<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If your company is new to hosting interns, we recommend that you check out these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/key-considerations-when-developing-an-internship-program\/\">key considerations when developing an internship program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Internship start\/end dates <\/strong>Palomar College offers internship courses Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters. Internship courses start at the beginning of the semester, four weeks in, or half-way through the semester to coincide with class start dates. Please contact the Cooperative Education Office for more information on start\/end dates for specific semester dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To get started, please share internship opportunities for Palomar students through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/recruiting-palomar-students-for-jobs-and-internships-with-handshake\/\">free Handshake platform<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jason Jarvinen at 760.744.1150 x2355 or email <a href=\"mailto:jjarvinen@palomar.edu\">jjarvinen@palomar.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internships are a win-win-win for students, local companies, and Palomar College. Internships can help your company: Other benefits: To be an internship host, we will ask your company to: If your company is new to hosting interns, we recommend that you check out these key considerations when developing an internship program. Internship start\/end dates Palomar&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/palomar-college-internship-program\/\">Continue Reading<span> Palomar College&#8217;s Internship Program<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/cooped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}