If you didn’t attend a trade/vocational school or college/university, then you might want to focus on hiring interns from schools that are geographically close to your small business. While it is not important to find an intern that can physically come to your place of business, it might be nice for you to be able to meet up with prospective interns for interviews or to network with the school’s coordinators. Another option that many small businesses choose to do is hire virtual interns from well known educational institutions. A virtual internship is a situation where the intern works out of their own home or office and communicates with you over the internet on a daily/weekly basis. Normally computer science, journalism, or internet marketing students will opt to take virtual internships. Virtual internships are starting to become a very hot trend because it gives employers an almost unlimited pool of high quality applicants.
Our biggest suggestion outside of hiring interns from your Alma matter would be to search for a school that offers majors in the area you are looking for an intern. For example, not every school offers a computer science and software development program to their students. If you are looking for an intern to help with your computer systems, then it would be best to find a university that offers those types of classes.