Employer Partners
Interested in becoming involved in the WCBA? Please contact Christina O'Connell, Director of WCBA Center for Career Management, to schedule a time to further discuss opportunities. We have plenty of opportunities for you to meet our students. You can register for our WCBA Meet the Employers Day each fall or spring if you are looking to hire an intern or full-time student or you can reach out and join our list of speakers for events.
Contact Information:
Christina O'Connell
Director, WCBA Center for Career Management
(330) 941-3660
cloconnell@ysu.edu
Interested in hiring an intern?
If you are interested in hiring an intern, we need the following information:
- Organization Name
- Brief Overview of organization
- Intern's Position Title
- Intern's Responsibilities (5-8 detailed, professional level bullet points explaining what you will be doing)
- Pay per hour (need to be on the organization's payroll, cannot be a 1099)
- Supervisor/Contact Person: Name, position title, phone number and email
Each internship a student takes for credit is approved by the appropriate WCBA department chair. All internships are posted in Handshake for students to review. An internship must have professional level responsibilities related to one of the areas in the WCBA. To view what degrees / majors students are pursuing - see our Degrees and Majors page. We also offer internships in our graduate programs, Professional Communication and Applied Economics.
All credit-bearing internships must be paid experiences. Our pay range is between $10.45-$36.00 per hour. The internship must be at least minimum wage. The intern must be officially placed on company payroll (no 1099 forms).
For more information on our internship program or for assistance with posting a position in Handshake, please contact the Center for Career Management at 330-941-3660.
Register for an account in Handshake
You are able to post full-time & internship positions through Handshake. If you don't have a Handshake account, click the button above or go to app.joinhandshake.com, create an account.
Handshake will verify your account. Make sure you link to YSU when posting the position. Be sure to let us know it's posted so we can send it out to students and alumni.