Currently Participating Companies:
Companies that have filled internships:
Bank One Center for Business Outreach
CBA IT Support
Cline Library Technology Services
Coconino County Human Resources
Distributed Learning Services
Flagstaff Tea Party Newspaper
Goazen
Grand Canyon Forest Partnership
H & R Block
Holdsword Construction Co.
Institute for Future Work-Force Development
IZOD Division of Phillips Van Huesen
NACOG Head Start
NAU - Associate Provost Academic Administration
NAU - Associated Students
NAU - Center for Data Insight
NAU - Dinning Services
NAU - NTS
NAU -CTEL
Nestle` Purina
Robert E. Russell
The Lumberjack Newspaper
Wells Fargo Financial
Advantages to Employers
Cooperative Education, Work Experience, or Internships strengthen mutually
beneficial working relationships between colleges and employers. Many and varied
benefits accrue for businesses who employ students from The W. A. Franke College of Business
Administration at NAU.
- Hiring an intern can provide the infusion of bright and enthusiastic people who can provide new ideas and viewpoints.
- Early identification and direct contact with outstanding potential full-time employees.
- Increased acceptance rate offers of employment from the best qualified applicant(s).
- Reduced likelihood of hiring an unproductive full-time employee.
- Reduced cost related to training and developing new employees.
- Establishment of ongoing working relationships with cooperating departments and business faculty at NAU.
- Provides a unique dimension of community service and a positive public relations image for the participating employer.
- Provides employers with a continual pool of pre-screened, high-achieving students.
- Offers employers a cost-effective screening program for recruiting highly qualified students.
- Offers employers a variety of student work schedules to meet specific needs and industrial/business cycles.
- Students returning to campus are effective public relations ambassadors and contribute positively to a company's recruiting efforts and image.
- Allows for flexibility in staffing needs by freeing higher paid staff to do more advanced or higher priority work.
- Hiring intern graduates significantly reduces the cost of orientation and initial training, compared to non-intern graduates.
- Hiring interns give regular employees the opportunity to supervise a staff member thus developing their own supervisory skills.
- Initial employment costs are reduced because of lower and non-existent fringe benefits.