The Internship of Students as a Tool for Staff Selection

„The Internship of Students as a Tool for Staff Selection“ has been done as a project for a Master Thesis. This model of students internship has been developed together with the Baltic Shipyard, which provided the technical tasks, in order to enable recruitment in a labor market confronted with skill shortages. This model program has been installed for 3 years. In the first chapter of this project analyses various ways of student internship as described in literature as well as used by employers. The second chapter presents the student internship model, developed as a concept to filter the human resource recruitment and its effect to the Baltic Shipyard. The novelty of this is the development of a model for student internships based on two principles: the inclusion of technology for recruitment (the concept of the filter) and elements of educational systems (Listener of groups of listeners, educational program, teacher/mentor, different forms of organizations of this training process, a system of evaluation of the results of this training as well as agreements/contract for the training)/ Within three years of this model tryout were participating: - 103 students (first year 35, second year 31, third year 37); - 14 subdivisions of the factory; - 64 mentors; - 2 specialist from HR department (the Head of HR department as project responsible and the head engineer for continuing education as project coordinator.); - 18 educational institutes (3 colleges, 15 institutes of higher education (VUS) 922 students applied for this program.