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The article discusses the need for employers to be more aware of their internship programs. Topics covered include the importance of carefully classifying interns and how they structure internship. Also mentioned is the benefits that the programs offer to interns who are looking to have more experience in the corporate world.

The article focuses on regulations by U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), concerning paid and unpaid internships, provoked by a series of lawsuits initiated by unpaid interns, which is the case of the production of the film Black Swan. The author comments the Six-Part Test initiated by DOL in May2010, which regulates the conditions for an internship to be unpaid. Special attention is paid to the validity and benefit of employment, nondisclosure and noncompete agreements.

The article discusses employers' internship programs where more than 40 percent of new college hires in 2011-2012 came from. The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 2012 Internship & Co-op Survey showed that internship programs focus on filling in vacant company positions by giving interns real assignments, offering them benefits and competitive salaries. It also presents NACE's 2012 Internship survey which showed that hired interns were retained at a rate of 75.7 percent.

Presents the findings of a survey on several categories concerning internship and co-operative professionals. Profile of institutions where the respondents work; Description of the organizational structure of the office or department; Software used in the management of internship or co-operative programs; Job titles of the respondents.