How To Motivate: Keeping Your Intern Happy

What do They Need?

Let's face it... outbound marketing is a difficult sales task requiring motivation, bravery, and perseverance. Compensation will not be enough to keep your intern's head in the game. After all, these students came to TeleMatch in the first place for one primary reason—they craved professional experience.

We realize this can come in many different forms; however, we can assure you that professional experience requires more than simply completing a job. They want to expand their network, acquire references, obtain letters of recommendation, etc.

Simply, they really want to feel a part of something bigger and have their effort noticed.

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How do I Help Them?

Below we have listed multiple suggestions to increase your intern's work structure.

• Take the time to train, providing the know-how and practice marketing together

• Establish a rough schedule of their working hours to help provide structure

• Follow-up with each other throughout the day/week for simple check-ins

• Provide feedback over their outbound marketing notes

• Establish meetings throughout the week over video software rather than phone

Below we have listed multiple suggestions to help you intern achieve their goals.

• Praise their efforts

• Teach them about the company's history and success

• Introduce your intern to other co-workers

• Introduce your intern to other interns at your company

• Connect over LinkedIn

• Endorse them over LinkedIn

• Offer to become a professional reference

• Provide a letter of recommendation

• Help them craft the experience on their resume