Vic's learnings: Onboarding temporary employees

The answer of my contact person was actually quite simple.

"The more of these temporary employees come back next summer, the better."

These are some reasons why you should invest in interns:

Get productive sooner

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They know the environment, the culture, the people and therefore do not need to be retrained. But they also work productively, way sooner than someone who is completely new. So if they are positive about their experiences the first time, they are more likely to come back. And that is what we want: especially now that there is a tight labor market and high employee turnover.
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Higher turnover‍

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The same goes of course for all temporary employees of other organizations. Some organizations work with a "flexible shell" of freelancers - you can onboard them too. Or how about interns? Within Appical, for example, it is the rule rather than the exception that an intern stays on as a permanent employee after the internship. Besides that, there are multiple valuable benefits of investing in interns. 

As a wise person once said, "If someone asks, why should I invest in someone if they leave anyway? Then answer: What if we don't do it, and they stay?"