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Placing an intern is the core of the job: deciding which company each student actually works at. In practice you don’t decide it — the host firm does, when you call and ask. So placement normally starts on the phone, not in Minto. You call firms until one agrees to take students, record what they said, and Minto connects them to the internship for you. Assigning the interns is the last step, not the first.

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The usual path

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Call firms until someone says yes

Log each call as you go — see Log a recruitment call. When a firm agrees, record the outcome Intern approved and how many places they’ll take.Recording places is what matters here: it connects the firm to the internship automatically. You don’t need to add it by hand afterwards.
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Assign the interns

On the internship, select Interns & Firms, then Assigning.
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Choose an intern

Select an intern under Interns to assign.
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Choose where they'll work

Select the firm you want them at. If the firm has workplaces set up, select the specific workplace; otherwise select Without workplace.The intern moves under that firm immediately.
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Repeat and close

Assign the remaining interns, then close the panel. There’s no separate save — each assignment applies as you make it.

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Before you begin

  • Any role can log calls and assign interns.
  • The internship must still be in Setup — that is, Requested or To Be Rescheduled. Connecting firms and assigning interns both stop working once it’s approved, so do the placement before you approve. See What you can change, and when.
  • The interns must already be on the internship’s roster.
  • The firm must exist in your Firms list before you can call it, and needs at least one workplace for a call to record places against — see Manage a host firm.

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Connecting a firm without a call

Connect Firm, on the Interns & Firms section, attaches a firm to the internship directly. It’s the shortcut, not the normal route. Use it when the arrangement already exists and there’s no call to log — a firm you place with every year, or a placement agreed by email months ago. Anything you connect this way has no call history behind it, so a colleague looking at the firm later won’t see why it’s there. If you’re actively recruiting, log the call instead. You get the connection and the record of who agreed to what.

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Result

Every assigned intern shows Assigned and their firm on the Interns tab, and the internships list counts them under Assigned.
The Interns and Firms section listing three interns, each marked Assigned with their host firm.

Each intern shows their status and the host firm they're placed at.

An internship reading 1/3 under Assigned has three interns on the roster and one of them placed.

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Move or remove a placement

In Assigning, select the ✕ next to an intern under a firm to unassign them. They return to Interns to assign, and you can place them elsewhere. Unassigning doesn’t remove them from the internship — they stay on the roster, and it doesn’t undo the call that secured the place.

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Troubleshooting

“No firms connected. Connect a firm first.” No firm has agreed to take anyone yet. Log a call with Intern approved and a number of places, or use Connect Firm if the arrangement was made elsewhere. You logged an approved call but the firm isn’t connected. Either no places were recorded, or the firm has no workplaces so there was nowhere to record them. Add a workplace to the firm, then edit the call. Assigning does nothing, or fails with an error. The internship is already approved. Assignments and firm connections are only editable in Setup — set the status back to To Be Rescheduled to make changes. The firm you want isn’t in the list when logging a call. It doesn’t exist in your organization yet. Add it first — see Add a host firm. An intern isn’t in “Interns to assign”. They’re already placed. Look for them under one of the firms.