Candidate Interviews

We have crafted the candidate selection process so that you have multiple opportunities to review the applicant profiles and provide us with feedback on your preferences.  In this way, we make sure that you are only accepting interns whom you believe to be an excellent match for your company or organization and the projects that you have available.

1- ADVISING CALL
with applicants to review interests.

2- INTERVIEWING
between applicants and internship sites.

3- FEEDBACK of applicants and sites collected by Puentes.

 

4- CONFIRMATION of each participant’s internship placement.

5- MATCHES communicated to applicants and sites.

 

 

How we get candidates for you

Puentes partners with top universities, such as Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and UCLA, to recruit talented undergraduate and recent graduate students.  Each interested student must submit an application packet, which includes his or her professional resume, together with a statement of interest or a personal statement. We conduct an advising call with each candidate to get a sense for their internship interest areas and ability to succeed in the program.

 

Candidate Referrals for you

Based on the candidate's profile, their interests, and your site profile, we make an initial selection of candidates to forward to you for consideration.  For each pre-selected candidate, we share their application packet with you by email.  The number of candidates forwarded to you will depend on both the level of interest from applicants in your internship opportunity and on how many intern openings you have, which you will confirm in the Internship Description Form.  We ask that you reply to us within three days of receiving the candidates' application materials in order to confirm whether or not you would like to interview each candidate. 

 

Your Interviews with Candidates

Once you confirm interest in interviewing a candidate (or candidates), we introduce you to the candidate in a separate email so that you can arrange an online interview with each candidate individually within five days to be able to determine if you’d like to have any of the candidates as interns in your office.  Typically these conversations are about thirty minutes.  If you have requested candidates with only an intermediate level of Spanish or higher, the conversation can be in Spanish; otherwise, the language of communication should be English. 

Please do NOT extend an offer or a promise of interest directly to a student during or after the interview; many students apply through their universities which also offer funding that impacts offer format and timing, so all offers must go through Puentes.

 

Your feedback on the interviews

As soon as you have completed all of the interviews, please share your impressions on this form:

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