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Title:

Attracting Talented Staff: San Francisco’s Transportation Engineering Internship Program

Accession Number:

01128850

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

In 1992, The City of San Francisco addressed a chronic shortage in transportation engineering staff by starting a summer internship program for college students. The program has been extremely successful in attracting staff to the transportation field and as a recruiting tool for hiring and retaining qualified staff. Over 150 students have served as interns, 24 of whom are currently employed as transportation professionals with the City of San Francisco, comprising 50 percent of the current professional staff. This paper describes key elements of the program including recruitment of interns, mentoring and training of interns, program costs and recruitment of interns as permanent employees. The paper also describes the origins of the program as well as less successful internship programs that were tried prior to the current program.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-0854

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Yee, Bond M
Robbins, Gerald
Fleck, Jack Lucero

Pagination:

8p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Uncontrolled Terms:

Internships; Summer camps

Geographic Terms:

San Francisco (California)

Subject Areas:

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Public Transportation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-0854

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 5:06PM