LANSING ? Michigan has launched a new web site to help students find internships in the state and interns to find the skills they need to land a job.
The new web site, MiInternship, is powered by the Michigan Talent Bank. The site features a search engine that allows students to review more than 400 internship opportunities by employers? names and locations. Students will also find an Internship Tool Kit with information on getting their first job, writing a resume and cover letter, and how to interview for a job.
“For students, an internship today, leads to a job tomorrow. For businesses, an internship allows companies to try out potential employees at a minimal cost. And for the state, it means keeping more young knowledge-workers with jobs here in Michigan,” said Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. “Now critical information to help Michigan students and businesses find each other is just a click away at the MiInternship website 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”
In her 2005 State of the State Address, Governor Granholm announced a comprehensive plan to fuel Michigan’s 21st century economy and create tens of thousands of good-paying jobs. Granholm’s Jobs Today, Jobs Tomorrow plan outlines a strategy to create jobs immediately and diversify and grow Michigan’s future economy. One of the priorities is to give children in school and adults in the workforce greater access to higher education and to the skills they need to fill both the jobs of the future and job vacancies that exist in Michigan today. The MiInternship initiative is just one example of how Granholm is helping students jump-start their careers early.
“This is just the first phase of the MiInternship web site,?? said Teri Takai, director of the Michigan Department of Information Technology which created the site in partnership with the Department of Labor & Economic Growth. ?There are plans to make the site even more robust but it was important to get something up and running in time for students seeking summer 2005 internships.?
To learn more, click on MiIntern
