The following are general guidelines that are used by the Career Center in securing candidates for internship opportunities with businesses in and around the Memphis area. Variations to any of these guidelines must first be discussed with the Director of the Career Center.

1. Any company seeking to fill an internship should forward a job description for the position, along with the requirements and qualifications, and the level(s) and major(s) of requested students (i.e., Junior Electrical Engineering majors) to the Career Center. If you need to discuss your needs further before beginning the hiring process, please contact the Career Center Director at (901) 321-3330.

2. Upon receipt of that information, resumes of students in the specified area(s) that are currently on file with the Career Center will be forwarded to the company. (Optionally, the company may view resumes through our On Line Resume Referral Program.) A general announcement of the position will be made to the student body via our weekly "Lifeline" bulletin, soliciting resumes of students in those areas that are not currently on file in our office. Additional resumes will be forwarded to the company as they are received.

3. The company may then conduct interviews by whatever procedure they deem appropriate. Interviews may be conducted on site by contacting the students directly, or on campus in The Career Center. If you wish to interview on campus, please call the Career Center to reserve a date when campus space is available, and to receive sign-up procedure forms at that time.

4. Once the interviewing process is completed, and a candidate has been identified for hire, the company should notify the student directly.

5. If the internship is exclusively a paid internship, the student may be treated as any other part time employee, and hired as such to begin work immediately. (Maximum number of hours per week for most interns is 20...occasionally varies per department.)

6. If the internship is for pay AND course credit, or exclusively for course credit, the student will, at that time, consult with his academic advisor in that discipline of study.  The advisor will determine the nature of the work that must be completed for the internship, so that it may be deemed acceptable for course credit.  (Each department sets its own criteria for what constitutes a valid internship.)  The student should supply his/her advisor with a suitable job description, supplied by the company, to assist in making this determination.  Once the determination is made that the position is suitable for course credit, and the structure of the work is agreed to by the employer, the student may begin work.

7. An additional hiring option for companies is to have the student hired and payrolled through CBU, while actually working at the company. For this to occur, the company must agree to a contract with CBU detailing the terms of employment, rate of pay, etc., prior to the student beginning work; the student will also sign the proper paperwork in the CBU business office in order to be put on the CBU payroll. Typically, $1.00 is added to the rate of pay for the student in order to cover administrative costs. (For example, if the rate of pay is listed at $10.00/hour, the actual rate of pay for the student is $9.00/hour, with the additional $1.00 covering administrative costs.) This option may be attractive to employers who are limited by hiring freezes or related employment problems. Our Business Office will then invoice the company to be reimbursed for the total rate of pay accumulated over said time period, usually on a monthly or quarterly basis. For more details on contract hires, please contact the Career Center Director.

CBU Career Center
Barry Hall 237
650 East Parkway South
Memphis, Tennessee  38104
Phone: (901) 321-3330
Fax: (901) 321-3332
career@cbu.edu

Office Hours:
Monday thru Friday
8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Tuesdays
8:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
(during Fall & Spring semesters)

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