Chukwuma Agubokwu
Child-like, not childish.
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Sixty-one percent of paid interns working at for-profit companies received a job offer; only 38 percent of unpaid interns working at for-profit companies did. And paid interns netted higher starting salaries.
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That’s Jean Chatzky, writing in Newsweek, on why students shouldn’t take unpaid internships. (via newsweek)
I respect these numbers, and the underlying message, but I’ve only worked unpaid internships and they’ve led to so many positive opportunities and paid opportunities that I’m reluctant to plainly discredit the concept.
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