Streamline Your Talent Pipeline

Issue 7.17

April 23, 2021

Meet our Newest Team Member, Alexis

Last month the State Chamber announced the addition of Intern Delaware under its umbrella, which led to the creation of the program manager position. We are happy to welcome Alexis Williams to the team! She will manage The Partnership's four flagship programs: Intern Delaware, Superstars in Education, Delaware Principal for a Day, and the Delaware Young Professionals Network.

Get to know Alexis >

ABOUT INTERN DELAWARE

Intern Delaware is dedicated to helping build Delaware’s future workforce by keeping talent in the First State. Intern Delaware partners with companies to coordinate experiences for their summer interns that focus on the benefits of living and working in Delaware. Through a series of educational events, interns will have access to business leaders while learning about the unique aspects of Delaware’s economy and culture.

GET INVOLVED

PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN SHAPING DELAWARE'S FUTURE WORKFORCE

Join Intern Delaware as a corporate or community partner >

THE BENEFITS OF BUILDING AN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM FOR YOUR BUSINESS:

Streamline your recruitment process and fill your talent pipeline
Increase your organization’s productivity
Cost effective
Opportunity for your employees' career and personal growth through providing supervision, training and mentoring to interns
Interns bring the newest technology from the classroom
A source for the recruitment of diverse employees
Increased retention rates—more than 50% of interns return to the organization after graduation

Download the

internship playbook >

“We’re in constant competition with other states and metropolitan areas around the country for young talent. I cannot think of anything more important than a program like Intern Delaware to attract young people to our state.” — Governor John Carney

TRANSFORMING HEALTH CARE

CHRISTIANACARE & HIGHMARK HEALTH ANNOUNCE LANDMARK COLLABORATION

If there is one thing that most Americans can agree on, it’s that our current health care system is too expensive, and for all that cost our population isn’t getting healthier. ChristianaCare and Highmark Health announced a game-changing collaboration that aims to create better health and to make health care more affordable for everyone by taking costs out of the system.

Through a new joint venture company, these two national health care leaders are combining their expertise and capabilities to completely transform health care by creating a new model of value-based care that is continuous and data- and technology-led. The new model will be a radical departure from the transactional, fee-for-service model that underpins much of American health care. Read more >

This Week in Dover

The General Assembly returned this week from Easter Break. Of note was SB15, an increase in Delaware's minimum wage, which was heard in the House Economic Development Committee on Wednesday.