Each of this session’s presenters’ companies had unique issues in recruiting and converting their interns into full-time employees. Vault conducted post-internship surveys at each organization. As a result of the feedback from those surveys, each company made significant modifications to its programs, which yielded, in some cases (or will yield at the end of 2010), better results than were achieved in the past. Qualcomm decided to pay 100 percent for intern housing as a result of survey feedback and proved to management that the additional cost of paying for housing saved the company more than $250K. BP decided to curtail individual exit interviews and replace them with the consolidated survey feedback received from its Post-Internship Survey. Tyco Electronics is in its second year of collecting data and intends to use the feedback to improve its program. Constellation Energy's primary means of recruiting entry-level talent is through its internship program. To be sure that they are providing the right experiences and making the correct impressions, they authorized a third-party to conduct a survey. They reached out to a third-party so they would have access to comparative data.