Sunday 17 January, 2021
The glamour of it all.
I’m about to embark on an unpaid internship in the hopes that it will give me an edge in a competitive industry – but saying goodbye to a weekly paycheque isn’t easy.
Unpaid internships are largely the preserve of the well-off and reinforce disadvantage; JobBridge has levelled the playing field.
I need an internship to get job experience but, apparently, I need more experience to get even an unpaid internship. What can you do?
One on the interns said that after the internship “It was like nothing, as if it wasn’t there”.
Government decides to extend internship scheme to primary teaching grads who have to find 100 days of experience to register with Teachers’ Council.
