Looking to Hire A Student Intern for an Internet Start-up

[Classhamster]

Looking for the best way to find a secondary school or university student to help with some data entry work for a internet start-up in Hong Kong. Interested to find out what the best way to advertise to students might be. Any help would be much appreciated.

[joseph77]

Hello. My nephew will be here one month in the summer from Switzerland to practise his English and would love to help. He speaks italian, english french and German.
He'll be 18 on June 24, 2016.
Let me know if he can be helpful
He was here in the summer of 2013 to study english.

[HowardCoombs]

Put up a post here : https://www.facebook.com/groups/HongKongTeenPT/

[shri]

Must have missed this pne.

There are really two types of "internships" that come into mind - the first one is your standard free "monkey" who will do the mindless work for you and the other being a path to a the person building their skills and having something on their resume.

For the free / cheap labour try the facebook groups, high school placement offices and the university sites like CEDAR:

Careers & Placement

For the more sophisticated intern (long term, not just a summer job) you'd have to work with a uni or two to develop a curriculum or process that you're going to put the intern through - i.e. similar to a course that they would get credit for. Many of the degree and advanced degree programs have practical work experience programs that the students need to undertake.

There you'd have to work with a uni or two to understand what their requirements are from internship programs - i.e. they'll recommend your program to their students, the students work part time, optionally make money and earn a credit or two.

On a side note - I detest seeing "social media intern" on CVs from entry level grads - basically meant that they spent their time at a company scraping sites, spamming and creating noise .. the kids seem to think that this qualifies them for six figure jobs.

[Classhamster]

Thank you for the responses, especially the link to the Hong Kong Teen Part Time FB group. We have tried posting in a number of different FB groups but maybe they weren't the right ones. This is a paid internship and we are looking for a native english speaker to help with some data entry work.

[shri]

@Classhamster - try the HKU site (overseas students can work for 20 hours a week in HK) and or some of the development offices at the ESF / Intl schools.

Also, depending on how much you're paying - https://jobs.geoexpat.com may be a good place to recruit some out of work native speakers.