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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...
Unpaid internships have long been a mainstay for students who get academic credit in lieu of a paycheck. But in the Great Recession, with the unemployment rate hovering near 10%, job-search sites like CareerBuilder and Monster.com are reporting increases in the number of postings for internships. And more and more college graduates and even middle-aged professionals are willing to work for free in hopes that it will help them land a paying gig. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...free labor," Grant Harris says of the 16-week internship he completed this winter with A Tailored Suit, which makes custom clothing for men. The 26-year-old, who lives in Leesburg, Va., and has an MBA, spent about 10 hours a week doing tasks like writing articles for the company's fashion guide, and he credits the owner with helping him launch his business as a style consultant. "I did it for the experience, and that's what I got," Harris says...
...making its recent decision to manufacture phones branded with Google's name another questionable one. Already Motorola has had to pull Google from its phones being shipped to China after the search-engine company butted heads with the government in March. "That's O.K. for a less familiar brand like [Taiwan's] HTC," Gartner analyst Milanesi says. "But there is no value to Motorola in making phones for others. It needs to concentrate on re-establishing its own brand...
...Lost in the raging debate over the implications of global warming is the fact that one way or another, all companies are going to have to get greener, but companies like Dong and Aurubis are quickly positioning themselves as market leaders. Under the plan Dong announced in September, it expects to increase its proportion of energy production from renewable sources from 15% now to 85% by 2040. At the time of the announcement, the company inaugurated Horns Rev 2, the world's largest offshore wind farm. Some 30 km off the coast of mainland Denmark in the North...