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...mind that the number of opportunities for internships might not decrease as much as would be presumed. Since unpaid interns still require resources from companies, the resources previously used for unpaid internships could be turned into wages. Moreover, companies will likely hire additional individuals to complete any work that is absolutely necessary. Finally, those fields that traditionally require job applicants to have completed internships, like journalism, would have to pay students to work for them. This prediction isn’t speculation—within less than a week of the Times article?...
Worse, these same students later face de facto discrimination when applying for jobs for which an internship is deemed a stepping-stone. The majority of firms expressly cited “relevant work experience in the form of internships” as the primary motivation to hire a recent college graduate. As it stands, if you can’t afford work to without pay before graduating, you might not work at all afterwards...
Additionally, students’ unofficial understanding of the value of an internship skews their perspective on the conditions under which their work is important. Those who perform menial tasks under the auspices of an internship often receive greater prestige than those who perform the same tasks for pay. This magnification of an internship experience fails to give equal credit to those who do the same labor but need financial compensation for their work...
...attitudinal shift among employers must go hand in hand with changed student focus. Undergraduates should shift their approach toward other ways to learn skills, such as working for non-profits or volunteering. Additionally, meaningful work can be found in jobs that don’t offer fantastic compensation above minimum wage or the prestige of an internship...
...event, Noriega also discussed Ortiz’s life in reverse chronology and emphasized the search for identity that is central to Mexican-American work...