Job internships in Royal Oak aim to retain grads

The Royal Oak Business Association and MSU have joined forced to create an internship programs to give job opportunities in Royal Oak to juniors and seniors in the hopes of keeping them after graduation.

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The Royal Oak Business Association and Michigan State University have teamed up to create an internship program that will introduce juniors and seniors to job opportunities in Royal Oak with hopes of keeping them from fleeing the state after graduation.

The MSU Royal Oak Business Internship Program is aimed at providing upperclassmen with paid internships at a variety of small companies in Royal Oak, where they can get hands-on business experience, business management knowledge and business skills.

If college students see that there are job opportunities in the state, they would be more likely to stay in Michigan after graduation, program leaders say.

"With so many (college students) leaving the state after graduation, our goal is to showcase Royal Oak to students who don't know about it or know very little about it," said David Baldwin, president of the Royal Oak Business Association.

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