How to Hire an Intern

• Talk to Benedict about how many interns we can have.
• Talk to Kim to get the intern Google Forms application promoted.
• Talk to Rose Miyatsu to get the job opening promoted on the GI web site.
• Email "bioinformatics (computational biology) at UCSC" [email protected] and "Bioengineering, Biomolecular Engineering, and Bioinformatics undergrads" [email protected] lists to promote the position. If you can't use them directly, go through Kevin Karplus.
• Wait for applications to arrive.
• Collect applications from the big spreadsheet
• Make sure the programming test is up to date.
• Talk to Kim to get her to administer the programming test to them. Make sure they have enough time to complete it.
• Grade the results using a rubric. Sum across questions and evaluators and make a shortlist of who to interview.
• Prepare a set of interview questions appropriate to the interview timeslot length. The stock questions we use are slightly too long for a half-hour interview.
• Create an interview panel from Toil and any other projects hiring.
• Talk to Kim to get her to schedule the interviews with the panel. Make sure the students get a copy of the questions slightly before the interview starts, so they are not shocked.
• Conduct the interviews.
• Evaluate the interview notes. Sum across raters and make a shortlist per project of who to hire.
• Draft interns to projects until out of good candidates or money.
• Talk to Nadine and Greta to get FOPAL codes from which to pay the interns, and to confirm funding actually is available for the number of interns you want.
• Complete the form template at https://businessoffice.soe.ucsc.edu/student-employment-information and send it to Denise Goss. Steal liberally from the previous year's form. Also CC Katrina Learned.
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