The One Area Hiring's On The Rise? Low-Paid Internships
In boom times, companies with too much work for existing employees -- yet not enough work to justify another hire -- may have turned to temporary work...
In boom times, companies with too much work for existing employees -- yet not enough work to justify another hire -- may have turned to temporary work...
Lindsey Pollak | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
While many recent grads have spent the summer hustling for jobs, completing internships and taking summer classes, I have a hunch that others have acquired deep tans, toned abs and a slew of ticket stubs from summer concerts.
Jeff Rivera | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment
Jon Younger | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
A strong internship program is a powerful tool for attracting top talent; companies can build a strong relationship with schools or other talent pools. But they can also be a reputational WMD.
nytimes.com | GERRY SHIH | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business
With paying jobs so hard to get in this weak market, a lot of college graduates would gladly settle for a nonpaying internship. But even then, they ar...
The Big Money | Caitlin McDevitt | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
Most people measure the workday in hours, but for a new crop of employees--interns in charge of their companies' Twitter feeds--the day is measured in...
Marilyn Machlowitz | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York
The situation is either the kid has graduated in May and is now beginning to look for a job. Or, if the kid, has been out of school longer, in a job, but is wondering what to do next.
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media
24-year-old Matt Egan of Edison, NJ has been covering the stock market for Fox Business Network since September 2007, after graduating from the Colleg...
Emily Bracken | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy
There are jobs to be had, just maybe not where you were looking. Just add "intern" or "free" to any search and you'll come upon hundreds of hits.
nytimes.com | Kim Severson | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living
They come armed with little more than soft hands and dog-eared copies of Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," which takes a dim view of industri...
Lilit Marcus | Posted 05.31.2009 | Comedy
The vanity internship: A position taken by a person who is already rich and famous but thinks it would be fun to go into an office every day and 'work.'
Martha St Jean | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
Being smart, young and Ivy League educated does not keep you from being one of the twelve million four hundred sixty-seven thousand of Americans out of a job.
Linda Franklin | Posted 05.02.2009 | Living
The Human Resources Department couldn't believe I -- a woman over age 40 -- wanted to be an intern, but after I sold them on the idea, they offered me a job.
Los Angeles Times | Geraldine Baum | Posted 04.09.2009 | Living
Reporting from New York -- Sitting in a bare cubicle, with her reading glasses perched halfway down her nose and typing away on a laptop she'd brought...
Los Angeles Times | Geraldine Baum | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
Reporting from New York -- Sitting in a bare cubicle, with her reading glasses perched halfway down her nose and typing away on a laptop she'd brought...
NYT | HILLARY CHURA | Posted 11.27.2009 | Business