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When Germany entered an economic slump after the Euro-introduction in 2002, companies loathed hiring on permanent positions. As a result, people who came out of
by blumentopf 15y ago
When Germany entered an economic slump after the Euro-introduction in 2002, companies loathed hiring on permanent positions. As a result, people who came out of college were hired on internships. An entire generation of young students were taken advantage of in this way, dubbed "Generation Praktikum" by the media (literally "generation internship"). It's sad to see the same happening in Ireland / the US now.
- rlobue 15y agoHaving been a German Praktikant (but a British national) I have a lot to say about Unpaid/Low Paid internships. Unfortunately I doubt ycombinator could handle that many characters ;)
- yxhuvud 15y agoFunny, here in Sweden this caused a shift not to internshifts but to people being hired by the staffing companies. The current situation is pretty different though - there is a huge lack of all kinds of IT people and it is really easy to get a job.