Sunday, July 24, 2016
Paid Internships Lead To More Job Offers Than Unpaid Internships
Fast Company | Business + Innovation: Those highly coveted paid internship positions may have a value beyond the small salaries they purport to pay college students. A survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) found that paid internships are more likely to lead to a job offer and a higher salary than internships that didn’t pay.
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This article is really interesting and revealing about the kind of career worlds all of us as high school juniors and seniors will soon be facing after we get out (or even are still in) college. This article is a little scary to read about, as it does highlight the difficulty so many people who are right out of graduating from college face when trying to start their careers in any business or industry. The statistics that say that people with paid internships are more likely to be hired professionally by their former intern employer really do make sense though, and are not at all surprising. If an employer is willing to pay you for one job that is presumably easier (i.e. an internship), then they should also be willing to pay you even more when your job becomes more difficult and takes up more of your time. Also, if an employer thinks your skill level deserves payment at a lower level, then when you heighten your level of skill and/or working, they should be willing to pay you even more. As someone who is looking to work in theatre, I think that it is especially important to have internships and other ways of real life experience in theatre while you are also in school, because theatre is an incredibly hands-on job that requires real experience more than anything else to learn. Now, however, while I am looking for those internship opportunities, I will also take the paid/unpaid issue more into account.
As high school juniors and seniors, the real world is sadly approaching and after or even during college, we will have to worry about internships or apprenticeships or going straight to getting jobs, and it’s important to know how something like internships can affect of future. This article points out the difficulties recent graduates face when trying to find jobs, and it does make me a bit scared to think about starting real work. But luckily I have time before I have to really start worrying about it (but not as much time as I would like to think I have). Internships are a big thing for college students, as it shows that you have experience in your field, and it makes sense that companies would like to see that you were doing work well enough to be paid for it, and it shows that you were working at a higher level.
I really find this article to be a good insight in to the stage of the workforce that we will soon be entering. As a rising senior, my next task during vacations will be to find internships. Before I read this article, I knew that internships showed a lot in terms of developing skills and an ability to work in a professional environment. Internships are also so important as we begin to network and make connections in the business world. It completely makes sense that being a paid intern at a company or theater makes them more likely to hire you in a full time position, as they have the money to pay you and you have shown that you have the work ethic and personality to fit with them. I have wanted to pursue internships that relate to theater, as that is the job that I absolutely want, but now I think I will be able to approach it with a much more long-term view, and I will be more driven to pick and choose, as much as a young person can in this job market.
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