The Ultimate Internship Experience.

Gain access to highly-skilled tech talent through Xtern’s college recruitment engine.

Interested in becoming a 2025 Xtern Employer? Opt in by October 18, 2024.

What is Xtern?

Finding top tech talent is hard. TechPoint is here to help. TechPoint’s Xtern program gives your company access to highly-skilled tech talent through our college recruitment engine.

The Xtern program recruits students from 20+ campuses in the region and beyond to foster the next generation of tech builders. Students live on a campus together and share their experiences working for your company with their peers. Xtern is a built-in marketing opportunity to help get your brand name to current college students as they go back to school and rave about what they did for you. 

We take care of their after-hours, offer housing, and provide professional development and social activities that create the best summer internship experience. Ready to become an Xtern employer?

Xtern Benefits

What are the benefits of being an Xtern employer?

Access to a curated, diverse, high-caliber talent pool of technical and business-skilled students from across the country. Matching and placement services to connect you to the right candidates based on your team’s needs. Full-service support for your interns outside of the 9a-5p including but not limited to housing arrangements, social opportunities, community service programs, and professional networking.

How are students evaluated and screened?

We receive over 3,000 applications. Our staff assess students based on their technical or business skills, campus/work involvement, and professional acumen. In order to be considered all applicants also complete a Work Sample Assessment that is inspired, guided, created, and critiqued by industry professionals in corresponding areas of tech-skilled and business-skilled roles. These submissions will be available for review as you preference your top candidates.

What is expected of my company during the screening process?

Our admissions process narrows the pool from the 3,000 applicants to roughly 300 top finalists. From there, your team will be asked to review and preference those that match your hiring needs.  You will have the ability to filter and sort based on role, technology proficiency and grade level.

We host two finalists day (fall and spring) to streamline the interview process, see below for timeline.

Diversity Goals and Results

2024 Recruitment Stats:

  • 3,000+ applications overall
  • 33% Underrepresented Gender
  • 73% People of Color
  • 13% African American/Black or Latinx
  • 12.5% are part of the LGBTQ+ community

TechPoint is dedicated to not only fostering the tech ecosystem, but in a greater sense we are dedicated to fostering inclusivity and equitable regional prosperity. These diversity goals were set utilizing historical program data and demographic participation in the current workforce in Indiana. We will continue to set ambitious goals as we seek for our tech community to be representative of our workforce. That is why we are sharing our diversity goals for our pool of applicants with an aim of over half of all applicants being persons of color, 7 percent being Latinx, 9 percent being African American, 3% being Multi-ethnic/Multi-racial, 5% being part of the LGBTQ+ community, and 35 percent identify as an underrepresented gender.

Xtern Roles

Xterns in the Business Communications job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as marketing activities, sales and business development, CRM software management, and content creation.

Xterns in the Business Intelligence job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as intensive and technical data analysis, running SQL queries, and data visualization.

Xterns in the Business Operations job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as business process and systems, identifying areas of improvement and efficiency, managing projects and resources, data analysis and interpretation, and stakeholder management.

Xterns in the Cloud Technology job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as cloud infrastructure components, architecting and deploying components, virtualization and containerization, and cloud security principles.

Xterns in the Cybersecurity job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as information assurance, systems design, vulnerabilities management, and IT/Networking.

Xterns in the Data Science job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as AI, machine learning, data analysis, and data wrangling.

Xterns in the Product Management job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as user research, project management, comparative analysis, A/B testing, and product road mapping.

Xterns in the Software Development job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as product, application, and web development, machine learning, and AI, and working with basic data structures and code structures.

Xterns in the UX UI job function may work on a variety of projects depending on their employer, such as user experience research and analysis, wireframing, visual designing and animation.

Feel free to reach out to TechPoint at talent@techpoint.org

How it works

Employer Recruitment

Companies can reach out to the TechPoint talent team team using this form, and we will also reach out to companies to gauge interest and opportunity.

Company Commitment

Confirm attendance by October 18 to attend our Xtern Fall Finalist Day (November 15, 2024).

Xtern Finalist Review

October 23 – November 4 – Companies review resumes, work sample assessments, and application information for all Xtern finalists to determine their lists of preferred candidates.

Schedule Determined

November 13  – TechPoint team creates the schedule for Xtern Finalist Day.

Fall Finalist Day

November 15 – Applicants and companies participate in a full day of interviews before ranking their preferences. The TechPoint team makes matches and announces offers on Monday, November 18.

Offer and Acceptance

Companies send official offer letters with details about salary, start dates, and expectations. Xterns review offers and accept or decline by December 3. Xterns must inform both companies and the TechPoint team.

Ongoing Matching

Companies receive continued support and matching if needed. TechPoint continues to communicate with the class of 2025 Xterns to ensure retention. Companies are encouraged to occasionally reach out to help Xterns prepare for the summer.

Xterns Arrive

Xtern move-in begins Memorial Day weekend and Xterns will start work on Tuesday, May 27 and work for your company for the following 10 weeks, ending on Friday, Aug 1 and move-out is Saturday, Aug 2.

Your next hire is waiting for you.

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Interested in being an Xtern Employer?

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Our team is more than happy to meet with you, free to email us at talent@techpoint.org.

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