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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Internships For A Price…

Click here to read this counterpoint to the controversial practice of selling internship slots…
http://www.kansan.com/stories/2009/feb/20/buser_internships/
A quote from the article:
I thought the point of an internship was to give students experience that would assist them when establishing a career — not put them deeper in debt.

Fox 4 Internship in Kansas City Missouri

For anyone near Kansas City, Missouri….
FOX 4 offers internships to college juniors and seniors who wish to enhance their knowledge of broadcasting through practical experience. Students are required to receive college credit for their time at the station. The following are various internships that FOX 4 offers.
http://www.fox4kc.com/about/station/jobs/wdaf-fox-4-internship-opportunities,0,3323398.story

The Booming World Of Student Internships…

Read this!
Dunn is one of thousands of local college and graduate school students toiling in the booming world of internships, as the crumbling economy makes jobs scarce.
Read the full text here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_more_grads_turn_to_internships_as_employ.html

Student Interning Links…Roundup…

1. For UT Students:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=6657859
2. An article about feeling the pinch:
http://www.bu.edu/today/campus-life/2009/02/04/young-and-jobless
3. And a Press release from Intern Bridge:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb2005434.htm

The University of Dreams…

This from ABClocal…
It profiles one student who claims interning helped her out immensely…
…She was also an intern at the Union Bank of Switzerland.
“There’s no way I’d be in San Francisco and gotten my career going the way it did without it. No doubt,” says Hannah.
Full coverage over here:
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=6649263