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You completely missed my point. If unpaid internships become the norm, that is it becomes expected that a person has to perform a period of unpaid work as some
by zeemonkee 15y ago
You completely missed my point.
If unpaid internships become the norm, that is it becomes expected that a person has to perform a period of unpaid work as some kind of apprenticeship, then they will be forced to do so if they want a paid job at the end of it.
So I might walk away from an unpaid internship, but I'll still need to work unpaid in another internship until at such point employers deem that I've done my time.
Therefore the individual has no choice but to accept unpaid work - regardless of which company they happen to be working for.
It's a bad precedent that needs to be stamped out.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoYour argument applies equally well to any screening procedure - e.g., college degrees. Do you believe that requiring/favoring people with college is also a bad precedent that needs to be stamped out?
- kbatten 15y agoI think the value of a college degree as a screening procedure is in fact dropping. The potential value of college education is still high, but the piece of paper doesn't really give any insight into what value the student took. All it shows is that the student payed the fee (and probably is in debt) and put in his/her time.
- wnight 15y agoIt is. But because it's not enshrined in law it'll be enforced by the market. What skills do you really mean to ask for? If you waste time asking for things you think imply those skills other people will be out-recruiting you.