...RUNNING HEAD: Unpaid Internships Exploiting Students: Harsh Reality of Unpaid Internships In the article “Jobs Few, Grads Flock to Unpaid Internships,” Stephen Greenhouse writes about the harsh reality of internships in the United States (2012). Greenhouse, the labor and workforce reporter for The New York Times, explains in his article the specific stories of unpaid interns and lawsuits filed against companies who did not compensate these individuals. The internship programs that Greenhouse reports on oppress both women and men with unfair work expectations and poor opportunities for advancement. With the help of this article and other supporting materials, I will clarify the relationship between these unpaid, exploited students and the material covered in my Women Studies class. In the article, Greenhouse points out that since 1985, the unemployment rate for graduates twenty-four years old and younger has risen 9.4 percent (Greenhouse, 2012). Speculators estimate that this number is increasing so rapidly because of students’ willingness to work for free in internship positions. The article explains this phenomenon stating that many students feel this is the best way to get a foot in the door with a possible future employer. More and more businesses are refusing to hire students who have not completed an internship program. However, Greenhouse explains that even after the completion of an interning program, many students are left uneducated about the type of...
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...Brussels and Bradshaw In response to the case study, Brussels and Bradshaw is a well-established financial institution that offers their clients competitive and innovative solutions for their community and work environments. The banking institution offers a summer internship to bright and driven individuals. The internship includes 14 weeks of very intense training and long hours. Interns are paid $20,000 for the contract. During the screening process, out of all the possible candidates Audrey Locke was selected. Audrey has some experience as an assistant, assurance analyst and financial planning analyst. Brussels and Bradshaw is operating in more than 25 countries globally; this case study takes place in Toronto. Many behavioral issues in the Brussels and Bradshaw institution are unprofessional and stressful. Job stress is defined as feeling one’s capabilities, resources, or needs that do not match the demands or requirements of the job (Hitt, Miller, & Colella, 2011 p. 249). Working 70 and 80 hours per week or possibly 120 hours will put a major burden on anyone, especially someone new to the working environment. Audrey is excited with her internship and very eager to learn. She is assigned a mentor and buddy by the business development manager, Kelly Richards. Kelly has 10 years of experience. Although associates consider her human resources, Kelly’s job is strictly administrative. Audrey is never introduced to her mentor and her buddy, Christine Page is very...
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...differences Raise awareness of global mindset among students OCP OC Exchange Delegation OC Finance & Logistics OC Special Event - ER OC Marketing OC Event Marketing IT Job Description 1 Build detailed content for Camp Job Description 2 Conduct/Facilitate sessions during Camp Job Description 3 Run/ Participate in activities promoting for camp Job Description 4 Improving global learning's system for project/LC members to develop global mindset Job Description 5 Integrate in Cultural Activities organized by AIESEC FTU HCMC: cooking day, Vietnamese class, city tour, etc. JOB DESCRIPTION REQUIREMENTS Pre-Internship BENEFITS During Internship Function bonding LC activities engagement Intern’s House Pick-up interns at air port Bus map reading skill training Culture shock training Project engagement Post- Internship Interns feedback Interns farewell party CONTACT Ms. Tuyet Anh Organizing Committee of Exchange and Delegation Skype: tuyetanh1106 E-mail: anh.luong@aiesec.net TN DETAILS TN-In-VN-HF-2013-292 TN-In-VN-HF-2013-293 TN-In-VN-HF-2013-294 TN-In-VN-HF-2013-295 TN-In-VN-HF-2013-296...
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...BN OVERSEAS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES | MARKETING STUDY | INTERNSHIP ABROAD PROJECT | | BEN CHEKROUN YASSINE -------------------- ELMOUTARAJ ZOUHAIR | July 30, 2010 | Internship abroad is a cooperation project between BN overseas educational services and AIESEC Chandigarh. This market study has been done between July 26 and July 30 according to the project planning. | INTEREST FOR THE SERVICE The aim of this question is to know whether Indian students are accustomed in having international working experiences or not. The survey showed that only 3% of students have had an experience in a foreign country, we can so conclude that the market is virgin and that our new service has the advantage of innovation. Most of the students (68%) who participated in our survey confirmed that they want to go abroad for an internship, 12% said that they would like to go abroad if some conditions are available like a decent salary or parental approval. Only 20% confirmed that they don’t want absolutely to have an international experience. The last two questions showed that the market holds great opportunities for the new service of BN Overseas Educational Services. Beside our calculations showed that the potential Market contains 12.000 Students. Our survey showed that BN Overseas Education Services is not famous among University Students, only 4% confirmed to have heard about it. So it’s important that the company relies on effective promotion tools in order to improve...
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...I am applying Business as my major degree this time. Since I am a very energetic and challenging-like person, learning and working in competitive environment are very appealing to me. The reason for applying business major is very simple. It is no doubt that I have huge passion towards business after I took many business-related courses. In addition, I had gotten more familiar with these kinds of stuff after I did some internship, which provided me a very good opportunity to build my confidence in pursuing business-related jobs after college. In particular, I feel interested in real estate, marketing, and finance areas. Not only I have been almost done all the courses in business major requirement, I am participating in JBS Real Estate Development this summer, which gives me a glimpse and affords me a substantial connection between the college and the work after college. Despite what many believe, business is not only about its glossy brochure, its fancy product, and its precise financial report. It extends to its employees, customers, the media and even the general public. Honestly, I am a kind of person who is eager to work with people, communicate with people and even negotiate with people. Last year, I declared Psychology as one of my major and almost done all requirements as so far. I certainly believe that Psychology and Business are a good combination in knowing how to work with people, and how to get into social networks well in the future. Besides my good academic...
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...prestigious global summer internship program, among several excellent candidates, Diane was notified this information prior to official announcement. Diane also knew that Frieda just get law school admission which will start this September. Ethical Issues: Frieda is awarded for this prestigious summer internship program primary because she is considered as an excellent profession in accounting, finance or information system field. Means if she decide to attend law school, she might loss this internship opportunity. Who are the primary stakeholders: Frieda is the primary stakeholder, she is the winner of the global internship opportunity while she could loss it if she decide to attend law school and her decision to be revealed. All the other candidates of this summer internship are stakeholders as well, because if Frieda is found to be not eligible, they would have chance to win the internship. Identification of possible alternatives: 1. Frieda can give up law school and change to business school, that way she can still get the summer global internship to Paris. 2. Frieda can choose attend law school and give up the summer internship opportunity. 3. Diane keep secrete for Frieda, that way Frieda could get summer global internship and still attend law school afterwards. Ethics of the various alternatives identified: Alternative 1 and 2, there’s no ethic issues if Frieda choose to tell the truth to Beta Alpha academic advisor. Since the internship is supposed to honor...
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...If I could choose one thing that I would like NSCS help me achieve then I would choose that to be obtaining an internship. I believe that internships are a crucial factor to getting students the real world experience that many college students lack coming out of graduation. Most students will get to do an internship but it may not be in the field that they would like to begin a career in. Even then it isn’t pointless but I think they could have put their time into an internship where they felt like they had something to work for or had something to prove. If I had an internship in the field that I one day planned to someday land a career in I would work my hardest every day to prove to the employer that I have what it takes and that I am willing to make sacrifices for the betterment of the company. Internships can help break the loop of college students having no experience because they can’t get a job because they have no experience. NSCS could be a tremendous help to all the chapters around the nation by providing events such as private career fairs, mixers, and different social events that will get students that face to face contact with employers. Being that the members of NSCS are nationally recognized most companies wouldn’t hesitate to give us a chance to prove ourselves in an internship opportunity. This is just one of the many ways that NSCS could help out all of its members across America and I’m sure that there are plenty of others that would agree with my idea. Working...
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...Office of Career Management, Fisher College of Business Business Administration 2191.01: Professional Experience Field Study- Full Semester Syllabus (for student repeating an internship at the same site) Course Coordinator: Audrey Bledsoe, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Career Services and Education Email: bledsoe.38@osu.edu Course objectives: * To enhance the student’s internship experience with analysis of the company and industry in which the student is interning * To connect the internship with overall career goals and focus on the development of career-related skill sets Requirements and expectations of students: * Initial meeting with instructor to gain course permission and review syllabus * Independent completion of all assignments during the semester of the internship * If UNPAID- Submission of Documentation for Unpaid Internships on file Grading: This course is graded S/U and is worth 1 credit hour. To receive a grade of Satisfactory (S), you must get at least 80 points out of a possible 100 in the class. 5 points will be deducted for each day an assignment is late. If assignments are found to not meet requirements you will be asked to make changes and resubmit. Assignment 1 – due 8th Friday of the semester (check Carmen for exact deadline) 35 POINTS Write a report (3- 5 pages) synthesizing a minimum of 3 current articles related to the industry and organization in which the student is working as an intern from trade...
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...Context……………………………………………………………………3 Building a Solid Base of Support…………………………………………………………4 Identifying and Prioritizing Program Ideas……………………………………………….5 Developing Objectives……………………………………………………………………9 Devising Transfer of Learning…………………………………………………………...10 Designing Instruction…………………………………………………………………….11 Formulating Evaluations…………………………………………………………………13 Making Recommendations………………………………………………………………15 Format of Internship Program …………………………………………………………....16 Identifying Programming Staff…………………………………………………………..17 Budgets and Marketing…………………………………………………………………..18 Facilities………………………………………………………………………………….20 Appendices: Appendix A: Caffarella’s Interactive Model of Program Planning……………...22 Appendix B: Needs Assessment…………………………………………………23 Appendix C: Faculty Survey……………………………………………………..29 Appendix D: Student Survey…………………………………………………….30 Appendix E: List of Graduate Programs with Internship Components………….31 Appendix F: Internship Learning Agreement ……………………………………32 Appendix G: Possible Internship Sites for HALE Master’s Program…………...35 Appendix H: Sample Brochure…………………………………………………..36 Introduction The HALE master's program prepares individuals for entry-level leadership positions in postsecondary education, public agencies, and business settings. The program provides a broad understanding of educational systems from social, historical, cross-national, normative perspectives and...
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...Goal Inventory Assignment In ten years, I want to be working in the human resources department at Texas Instruments. I specifically want to be an HR Business Generalist because it is more closely tied to the business and business strategy at Texas Instruments than some of the other human resources jobs there are. This position seems like it would be a great fit for me because I am extremely interested in the business strategy of a company and how the people working for the company can directly influence how successful a business is. I want to be in Dallas, Texas at Texas Instruments’ main office where I can get the most enriching experience. However, after I have learned as much as I can at the Dallas office and when I am comfortable with my position, I want to move to the Houston office because Houston is where I grew up and it is where I want to raise a family. In five year, I want to be working in the human resources department at Texas Instruments. I want to start out in their Compensation position within the HR department. My major is in accounting and I like to work with numbers, so I believe the Compensation position would be a good starting point for me. I have also been advised that this position is a great HR position to begin with, especially if you want to work your way to the HR Business Generalist position, because you learn a lot about the company and their financing. I would like to be in the Dallas office, because this is Texas Instrument’s main office...
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...1.0 Executive summary A million of thanks to Kolej Poly-tech Mara Kuala Lumpur for the opportunity to complete Workplacement/ Internship at Kometsoft (M) Sdn. Bhd. Followed thanks to Kometsoft’s that welcomed to their Company.The major purpose of this report was to ensure that students can adapt in workplace environment at the Organization or firm culture. This Internship task are will be completed during the semester break (1st November to 31st December). The major findings indicate that students know how to handle projects while working in one organization/ firm. A student must learn and need to stands in their own feet to solve any problem in the organization and try to communicated-well person. As recommendation, this workplacement/ internship program is very useful for the students’ to learn what really happen in one organization before the student finished their course at College/ University. While having Internship, the students learned a lot in time management, problem solving, critical thinking skills and other. Lastly, a lot of thanks as well to everyone who involved manage and evaluate this workplacement/ internship program. 2.0 The Background of Host Organizations/ Main activities and Business Operation Kometsoft (M) Sdn Bhd (“Kometsoft”) was established to promote an open source technology back in year 2003. The establishment was coincides with Malaysian Government encouragement to opt for the open source technology and the policy helped the Company’s rapid...
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...Week 11 & Week 12 The last two weeks are the busiest weeks to me because since my internship program is near the end, I need to complete all the tasks before leaving. During this period, my main task is to prepare an intern farewell event during the last time to chairman, CEO, Director and all the senior general managers of my company. It is also a ceremony to send off us. Besides, I am given a task to write a report of learning experience within the internship program to my company’s supervisor, finding the information of competitor’s make-up classe, explore myself in working process of warehouse working, attend GST workshop and take part in DWMY Friends & Family Day. Interns Farewell Event Our company hopes that there is a session for all of us to enjoy before ending the internship program, so that we are informed to organize interns’ farewell event with all the other interns from different department during the last day. Therefore, it is the only opportunity for me to work with all interns during my internship program. Due to the limited time of preparation, all of us keep discussing to come out the idea in doing it well. We prepare the decoration, invitation card, performance, video together. It is a task that needs the cooperation of each of us to complete. From the process of preparation, I learn how to dealing some matter with the superior, how to communicate with people and how to work in a team. Although it is very tired, it is the most interesting...
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...Bradshaw Ryan Andrews BA590, Grantham University Key Organizational Behavior Audrey Locke is a summer intern for a very successful North American company of Brussels and Bradshaw Investment Bank. As it seems in most organizations, the new guy, or girl in this case, is often subject to treatment that can be misunderstood as abusive. Those that are in positions within an organization see this as ‘weeding out the week’. From the view point of Audrey and other past interns, it can be seen as unnecessary and disheartening. For those that are intent on making a future in investments, it seems that you are going to have to learn how to adjust. In fact, Blake Cooper, one of the managing partners of the Toronto Office with Audrey is performing her internship at stated “We cannot afford to get soft on our people by listening to analysts whine and complain about each other. Once you start, where does it stop? They’ll figure out how to get along on their own if you let them. These are professionals. We are all here to make money and the only way to make money in this business is to work together. Those that want to get ahead will recognize that – and those are the people we want at Brussels and Bradshaw.” (Hitt, Miller, Colella, 2011) Issues and Recommendations It seems that this situation of being stepped on is not going to change. Since this seems to be a companywide pandemic, it is going to take a ton of pressure from the top and directive to stay on course to change the fact that summer...
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...INTERNSHIP EXPLORATION WORKSHEET Name: _____Aaron Bok________________________________________ Section: __________4:00 to 5:20pm__ Graduate Area Being Explored Here: ______________________________ List a SPECIFIC source(s) after your answer for each question, EXCEPT question #12. If you use an online source, provide the EXACT website URL for the page where you found your information. If you use a printed source (like a book or a pamphlet) you must list this source using APA style. This assignment is DUE ON WEDNESDAY, 11/06/14 by 23:55. This assignment is worth 100 pts. Remember that each question EXCEPT QUESTION 12 must have at least one source listed. Some questions will, of course, have the same source. The internship exploration should be a typed document with the following format: Questions ending in ? or … should be answered in a few sentences. Questions ending in : can be answered in a few words or as a bulleted list. 1. (6 pts) What key factors are important to you for selecting an internship? (for example: salary, duration, reputation, location close to significant others, specialization, etc.) For me, I want to be close to home, so probably near Chicago, but I am willing to go out to somewhere completely new. Also, an internship focusing on finance or trading is ideal, but I still want to do an internship. For duration wise, hopefully over the summer, thus I can gain more experience and do more. 2. (6 pts) Identify three specific resources...
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...Responsibilities Daily contact with leaders at all levels of the organization including senior management, team members, individual contributors and vendors Provide customer service to all areas of support personnel and clients as necessary Understand processes and work flows and make recommendations for process improvements Bring closure to issues, questions and requests. Solve problems independently Understand business needs and provide possible solutions by explaining in a clear verbal and/or written communications to customers and/or management Consistently learn new systems, applications, processes and techniques Participate in or lead projects or support activities, which are moderate in size and organization span Responsibilities Analysts assume significant responsibility that may include: Developing and maintaining models to depict projected financial results and to value companies Working closely with senior bankers on presentations, financial and credit analysis, and the preparation of financial projections and models Supporting various financial analyses, including valuations and merger consequences Performing comprehensive and in-depth company and industry research Preparing presentations and other materials for clients Participating in client meetings, due diligence visits, and other client interactions to gain exposure to key executives and senior bankers Structuring customized investment strategies using conventional cash and derivative products...
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