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When you hear the word intern, you probably don't think of people like Kristina Shands. For starters, she's 38. And she had notched 10 years of experience as a fundraiser at a nonprofit in Tennessee before she was laid off last year. But now that Shands is considering moving into sports management, she's interning with the Knoxville Ice Bears hockey team, writing game summaries and handing out stats on game day. She devotes about 10 hours a week to the Bears, and she does it for free. "I'm getting to see the inner workings...
Will labor activists in the U.S. ever get the intern genie back in the bottle? Not if enough people keep volunteering to work for free. Marian Schembari quit her unpaid internship at a Web-based publisher in New York City after three months of living with her parents. The 22-year-old, who graduated from college last year, reached the point where she felt that working 40-hour weeks for no pay was "degrading." But Schembari, who is now freelancing, still thinks she got something valuable out of the internship. "I was able to write for a website with...
...because of a lack of time or an expenditure of unnecessary effort; it took me approximately 23 seconds and zero brainpower to type those above three sentences. The average employer could (and probably does, for those who still do this) staff that little email out to their current intern or secretary, who can easily send it en masse to however many applicants need to be notified. Therefore, it is just plain rude to not acknowledge an applicant’s desire for, and the often-considerable effort they put into, asking...
...that should be repealed is the stipulation that an internship must offer experience replicable at a vocational school or an academic institution, thus precluding a large number of industries from offering unpaid internships and limiting opportunities for jobseekers. Another worthy of repeal mandates that the employer cannot profit from intern labor. The latter criterion is the most often violated, demonstrating that interns view it as a fair trade to contribute to their employers’ profit margins in exchange for valuable work experience
...volunteers really got into it, and I think some of them formed friendships with a lot of the kids,” said Justin K. Banerdt ’11, an intern at the Foundation...