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Local Grown Salads
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Zale Tabakman
President
(29)
3
Preferred learners
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
Categories
Human resources Internal communications Training & development Leadership Talent recruitment Employee retention
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

We have extensive internship program with over 50+ students at any time.

We need a person to oversee the program.

This will include:

  • Ensuring Interns are performing - this is done in coordination with Project Managers
  • Helping onboard and staffing the different projects
  • Expanding the reach of our Internship program
  • Responding to Student queries
  • Supporting the Project Managers staffing and meeting needs
  • Assisting the President on meeting with the students teams on a regular baisis
  • Maintaining the Orientation Curriculum
What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?

Tasks may include but are not limited to:

  • Onboarding employees
  • Carrying out administrative tasks
  • Supporting upper management
  • Organizing meetings
  • Interviewing students
  • Connecting with Universities/Colleges/Other that have placement programs
  • Working with project managers
How will you support learners in completing the project?
  • Feedback on work
  • Communication via email or discord
  • Zoom/Discord Meetings
  • Access to company resources as needed


We understand the practicum is to help you receive Work experience that can help find you a position. We fully support this.


Once you have started with us, we encourage you to immediately add to your LinkedIn profile that you worked as a Consultant to Local Grown Salads. You are encouraged to connect to all the other folks who have worked for Local Grown Salads and then start accepting invitations from others as well. This will create you a network of folks. This network is popular with recruiters.

By the way, we keep losing interns. They are finding jobs, And they tell us, the people interviewing them ask a lot of questions about their Local Grown Salads experience.

It seems our process is preparing students to get real jobs. We can't guarantee you a job, but we are committed to your success.

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About the company

We are an Indoor Vertical Farming company. Check our website http://LocalGrownSalads.com.
We love working with Riipen Students.
We work with students from all around the world. In fact we say that the sun never sets on Local Grown Salads.
(Its true and its a pun on our Indoor Vertical Farming Technology)
We have ongoing relationships with Arizona State University, U of Texas, RMIT in Australia, University Canada West, to name a few..
We work with individuals or teams (typically doing a capstone)

We provide a Virtual work environment using Agile (using JIRA), Discord, AWS, ReTool, React Native, Postgres to name some of our tools.
Zoom, and other tools.
Students can expect
1) Mentoring
2) international Networking
3) An environment to learn and prepare themselves for a career.
3) a reference letter