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Do not use Spain-Internship 23 Apr 2013 | 07:38 pm
This correspondent has highlighted a problem which is relatively new to us – agencies which set up internships for University students in foreign countries. Here is one example of how this can go wron...
A dangerous figure, coming soon 26 Feb 2013 | 11:59 pm
Imagine all of the potential and anger of the UK young unemployed was channelled into a single powerful and dangerous figure. What would you ask it? What would it tell you? This project enables that i...
Sneaky unpaid work trial 4 Oct 2012 | 04:26 pm
Our correspondent wished to name the company and we cannot verify the details of their story I applied for a ‘creative content trainee’ position with MEC in Manchester after finishing my degree. MEC a...
A two month long trial shift: fashion fails again 1 Oct 2012 | 03:11 pm
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse…we get this in the mail. Our correspondent included two tweets as screen shots, we are posting them because they asked us to. I have recently been unfa...
Graduate Talent Pool – still unreliable, still dodgy 26 Jun 2012 | 12:03 am
We have taken the original post down for the moment…
Internships and PhDs in the humanities: notes from the USA 25 Jun 2012 | 11:55 pm
This article was written by Sofia Rasmussen, who has written a lot of great stuff about PhDs, internships and jobs – this gives us an idea of what interns experience in the USA Not all internship exp...
At an unpaid internship at a designer label 14 Jun 2012 | 07:45 pm
I was… >> forced to work over 8 hours a day – sometimes over 10 hours a day (they made me sign a contract in which I had to agree with this) >> given no payment, no meals, no accommodation, no trans...
Eastern promise: interning abroad can be a better option 31 Mar 2012 | 05:28 am
I just want to share my internship/job experience working for NGOs in the Middle East…I know this is quite a specific field, but my story has some relevance to many of the issues you are discussing. ...
What the hell, NHS? 24 Feb 2012 | 01:50 am
Someone brought this to our attention – an advert for an unpaid psychology assistant position – click here for the full text. You need to commit to two days work per week for 6 months but NOTE, they w...
Fashion, fashion, fashion 13 Feb 2012 | 11:25 pm
After interning, Lauren set up a campaign…what a great idea! My name is Lauren Briggs and I’m a third year Fashion Communication student at Northumbria University. It can be quite daunting to be face...