Key Strategies for Converting Interns.

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.