Career service offices on campuses across the US continue to emphasize the importance of internships. They remind undergraduates how important internships are down the road after they are out of school and looking for jobs. This emphasis has increased with the unpredictability of the recent job market. But do these internships, often unpaid, actually help students separate themselves from their peers? And who do they help?
I was interested in seeing if those who interned as undergrads were more successful attaining jobs than those who did not.
Here’s the form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHlQNkVjS05XTnNKZ1ZNcUVRQTJRREE6MQ
Fourteen respondents chimed in, with most being current students at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The vast majority of respondents, who were all in their 20s and early 30s, interned at least once while undergraduate students.
Yet, few of the respondents were employed.
Of those 14 respondents, those who had jobs were not working in their desired profession.
