internships

The Ballad of the Unpaid Intern

Women's Work post by Grace Bello on January 23, 2013 - 3:46pm; tagged career, girls, internships, Parks and Recreation, Underemployed, Woman's Work.

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Onscreen, women struggle as unpaid interns but are saved by, in April's case, a surprise job opportunity in season two of Parks and Recreation. But in real life, about one in six 18-24 year-olds are unemployed and those who land coveted internships often go unpaid.

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Calling All Publishing Interns!

Bitch HQ post by Brian Frank on June 2, 2011 - 12:43pm; tagged internships, publishing.

We've got a publishing internship opening on the business side of Bitch in early July at our Portland office and would LOVE it if you could help us spread the word (or apply)! We're accepting applications now, and will be doing interviews later this month on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

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The Young and The Feckless: Nothin' but Net(working)

Social Commentary post by J Maureen Henderson on May 24, 2010 - 11:14am; tagged college, corporate America, generation y, Good Morning America, internships, job hunting, jobs, millennials, networking, networks, social media, students, The Young and The Feckless, Twitter, unemployed, unemployment, Wall Street Journal, youth.

It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been on the job search in the last two or three years that networking is now being held up as the be all and end all of job hunting strategies. Normally, I simply skim this ubiquitous and rather facile advice (it's on par with Cosmo beauty tips when it comes to regurgitating the same ol' same ol'), but this piece from the Wall Street Journal was effectively the straw that broke the camel's back. I think it was the use of voila. It's a recession, lady. There ain't a whole lotta voila-ing going on, ya dig?