Let Us Help You Find An Intern and We’ll Even Help Pick up the Tab!

Would you like to have a USC intern this summer and only pay half of the cost? Columbia area employers will have that opportunity through the University of South Carolina Career Center.

 

The Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce is working with the USC Career Center to recruit employers to participate in the Community Internship Program or CIP. More information on the CIP program is available at www.sc.edu/career/cip or join us for a prospective employers briefing at 8 a.m. on Feb. 23 at the Chamber on how use an intern and get involved in the program.

The CIP program provides matching funds to South Carolina employers to hire USC-Columbia students as interns. The USC Career Center will provide no less than $5.00/hr and no more than $8.00/hr. in matching funds. Employers must match the hourly rate, but may pay more if desired.  This program gives students the ability to earn a minimum of $10/hr with an internship in South Carolina, beginning this summer.

 

All employers must reside in South Carolina.  Interns are available in all majors, all fields. Students may start work on May 17 and all internships must be completed by Aug. 13. Employers may hire both full-time students (for 480 hours for 12 weeks) and part-time students (for 240 hours). Each employer may hire up to five interns through this program. The total number of interns available through the program is limited.

 

 

For more information, please contact Julie Hutt at (803) 777-4466, or email at jhutt@mailbox.sc.edu, or visit

www.sc.edu/career /cip, or contact Courtney Herring at the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce at (803) 733-1148, cherring@columbiachamer.com or C. Grant Jackson at (803) 733-2513, gjackson@columbiachamber.com.