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Support Quality Education

Goal 1: Partner with Local Organizations to Educate and Mentor
Objective 2: Retain Arlington Graduates and Improve Department Recruitment Pools
Project Performance Measure(s) City Service Team (Department)
SQE Intern Recruitment and Intern placement Strategic Support (HR, Court, IT, and Water),
1.2.1 Placement Expansion Neighborhood Services (Library, Parks, and Police),
Economic Development and Capital Investment
(Public Works and CDP), City Attorney’s Office, and
Management Resources
Summary:

In July of 2015, the City started an Internship Intern Totals
program modeled after the successful Volunteer 60
program. The Internship program utilizes the
relationships built with local schools to source future 40
talent for the City. This is done through partnering
relationships with the schools, staff, and students. 20

The FY 2018 Internship project will continue to forge 0
new relationships with current and new school 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
systems. This will allow the City to grow our qualified
applicant pool and will allow the intern to find what FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018
best matches their career plans. The City will track
the progress of this program through the following:
 Number of Interns per Quarter
 Number of Interns per Department
 Participating Schools
 Number of Interns Hired

Update:
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As of the 4 quarter, the City had 46 paid and unpaid
interns. 10 new interns were hired. The participating
schools this semester are Arlington High School, Dan
Dipert Career and Technical Center, Rice University,
SAGU, Sam Houston State University, Tarleton State,
TCU, Texas A&M Law, Texas Woman’s University,
University of Notre Dame, University of North Texas,
and The University of Texas at Arlington & at Dallas.
Following is a breakdown of the Interns by
department:
 CAP‐ 1
 CDP – 14
 Fire – 1
 IT – 4
 Library – 6
 MR – 3
 Parks and Recreation – 5
 Police – 7
 Public Works – 2
 Water – 3

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