We all know that paid internships leads to actual fullntime jobs. But why do internships that you won't profit when you can put that time and effort in things that gives passive income like real estate, cryptocurrency investments, stocks and forex trading🤷
@@bluehotdog2610 I think the supply issue isn't immigration but the surplus of college educated students who want a job in thier career feild. It's hard to get into high paying career. I think alot of interns should be at least getting some money because the employer needs trained staff. Though I don't like the idea of making it illegal because sometimes the small company you want to work for isn't taking interns. So you can talk your way into an unpaid internship that turns into a job. If the company publicly post the job I feel it should be paid but if it's a hire from someone who is basically volunteering to work then I don't see the problem.
@@GameFuMaster Education is not the same thing as unpaid internship. It's paying for a service vs. making somebody money with your labor. NOT the same thing.
@@ZodiacEntertainment2 So homework isn't labor that which often isn't base don real world metrics? You're probably one of the idiots who buy early access games to basically function as a QA.
@@GameFuMaster It's "labor" but nobody is making money off my homework (outside of rare exceptions). It's "labor" in the same way practicing guitar is labor; you are developing your mind or your skills and you are gaining something. I'm not going to turn in my English essay or my Chemistry homework only to have the teacher profiting off it. When you work as an unpaid intern, the company is making money on you. I know because I've worked in a company with unpaid interns! I've worked along side them! They do work that makes us money. They deserve to be paid for it. I was vocal about this to my old employer and I still am today. No I don't buy Early Access games. Usually a scam. The only games I've bought in a pre-release state is Minecraft back in 2011 and Risk of Rain 2, which I only bought because I trust those developers from their past work.
@@ZodiacEntertainment2 I'm sorry, but you are clearly stupid. They're not making money off your homework... because they're already made money off your tuition, lol. Like how did you even miss that? A proper internship should also involve you TEACHING the interns. Telling them what processes you guys use and any other technologies. A proper internship is where you're diverting existing resources, i.e. a senior, towards something that would produce substantially less profits for the company (mentoring an intern). If the intern is actually self sufficient and is actually producing effective profits for the company... then it's not an internship, it's an entry position. A company using internships as an entry position is like a not-for-profit organization (that hardly spends any money on actual efforts) calling themselves a charity. There's nothing wrong with the words (internship/charity), but the way it's being misused.
before u say internships lead to a job… alot of companies say youre on a trial run of three to six months and then fire them and hire someone else as an unpaid intern on trial so they always have free labor
Yes and the interns always do the grueling work that nobody wants to do like programming and programming lol. Reminds me of the kitchen you do most of the work and get the least pay and the least respect.
When I post a job for a business type role, I will see 150+ applications. My friend the carpenter puts out an ad, and if he is lucky to get 1-2 people. We need to change the stigma of blue collar work, it's good money and not all trades will leave you crippled and broken by the time you're 50.
My first 'official job' was an unpaid internship. It was rough, knowing I was working for free with no promise of a job at the end of tunnel. I took on a side retail job just to pay for the transport, lunch and other associated costs to complete the internship. I'm grateful for the opportunity and I learnt a lot and it also helped me get my foot in the door. But yes, this needs to change, people should be paid for the work they do and this culture or expectation of people doing internships in order to land a entry level job needs to change.
This very culture of unpaid internships is widespread. I did a 6 month internship in one of the leading hotel chains in India and I was not paid for the same. Would work up to 12-14 hours in a stretch, would be ill treated by the employees but had to do it. For the guests the Hotel was "an awesome experience" but for interns like me it was awful and abusive.
Hotel work is BRUTAL . having worked there and yeah 12-14 hours is pretty much a given. i went through multiple cycles of burn out. Nevermore. but for internship, best believe they'll work you to the bone and pay you dust.
If an internship requires a degree and 3 years of experience, it's not an internship, it's an actual job where employers want experienced people to get paid below minimum wage
I've been through the internship search (I've had 2). I find it funny when internships describe themselves as "paid" in job postings, and that pay is like a few hundred dollars a month for full time work. Thats not pay, thats a stipend.
Not necessarily, some people do analyst internships during freshman year that are unpaid in order to get a head start in lucrative front office jobs. They’re still very competitive to get into
@@morgancody6752 shocked about your thought of an unpaid employee learning about a new industry is slavery. America education systems seriously messed you up.
interns with no experience generally dont have any skills that warrant pay. these interns provide very little value to the company. interns that provide actual value and work on actual products (for example software engineer interns) are paid heavily.
I was making $23/hr at my internship, then I learned that the 2 French interns there are unpaid. They were surprised to learn that I am paid since we all are interns. They have to pay rent in an expensive COL city, while I'm living with my parents while commuting 1hr from outside the city. Not everyone can afford to accept an unpaid internship.
@@evileyez504 I guess paid internships are not popular in France so the company know they will have applicants even if the listing say unpaid. They also get school credit from their university for doing internship too.
@@nobel978 schools helping companies exploit students? They weren't just learning. They were working independently and adding value to the company. They should get paid by the company too.
I think unpaid internships should just be out right banned, I’m still doing the work a paid employee would be doing so i should be paid. If it was under any other circumstances that wasn’t an internship it would be Illegal.
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp entitled because people want to be paid for their labor? How is wanting to be able to FEED YOURSELF or idk have money to get to work in the first place, even considered entitled?
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp Garbage collectors get paid and yet graduate interns are expected to do this unpaid nonsense. Capitalism has been destroyed by corruption, greed and human nature.
@@chrislavey1465 Garbage collectors actually collect garbage - an important service to society. They should be paid more. Meanwhile you are forcing small business to pay to teach the craft/experience that they have accumulated over time. Big business pay their interns anyway. An internship is basically free college. You don't expect your college to pay you do you? They give you the experience that you use to get a job - exactly like college.
My internship paid $21/hr, full time, every summer break during my years in undergrad. I think a big factor with this unpaid internship issue is people are vying for jobs in extremely saturated markets. My art major friends didn't expect to make close to $21/hr after college, let alone during.
Come on guys.. Paying a minimum wage for 2-3 people would not bankrupt a large company Paying $12/hr a full time staff with degree vs paying a full time staff $20/ hr is a huge saving
$12 an hour for full-time staff is what the worker receives on the back end of company may be paying up to $20 per worker to cover other stuff like corporate taxes benefits, employer ID numbers, and a few other things here and there such as background check processing. Offer someone who may spend less than a few months. First a smaller company that has less than 15 people that would be crippling. For a large corporations however, this is easily covered and these are the sorts of people who hire intern to most likely pay.
I’m in my 60s and that unpaid internship is relatively new. When I was in college. That nonsense didn’t exist. If you got a job you got paid. PERIOD. I don’t know who thought that just getting the experience was enough. It’s not, especially with all the student loans a lot of you have. I think it is a terrible practice.
That's exactly the mindset of a company. Why bother hiring an inexperienced person then? If you're willing to pay for education, which can arguably be not worth the money. Then unpaid internships are the better deal. Your time is worthless unless you're actually doing something with it. An unpaid internship should just be a stepping stone to get a better looking CV and for a good reference.
Medicine is way worse...YOU PAY for the experience. When I was a medical student, I was doing grunt work for residents,...doing their notes, getting blood draws , because ...well they wrote your evaluation and thus if you didnt help them out, they'd probably eff you over. It's ridiculous.
As a Mechanical engineer I have never an unpaid internship, I Have also ever been paid under $20/hour for an internship. So your observation is accurate.
Exactly what I have noticed. It’s the same with majors in computer science, or project management. Those majors always offer paid internships (even international students majoring in those fields tend to have more opportunities for paid internships). However most degrees in the humanity sector tend to be, in general, unpaid (even worse if you are an international student).
Paid internships are out there! I had two paid internships during college, including one that was with the government. Plan ahead and look the summer before the next summer, paid internships go quickly.
My freshman year of college I was accepted into an unpaid internship under an Oregon Senator. I had to turn it down because I didn’t have the money to rent a place in Washington D.C. let alone buy a plane ticket or food. I always wonder how my life would’ve turned out if I was able to. Mind you I was able to work other unpaid internships in my home town and eventually take and then quit an unpaid internship in Australia. I quit of course because I was able to find full time work that actually paid me a live able wage (how shocking) in Sydney.
@@juanshaftpatel7488 i had a friend get selected for an intership because they needed people to translate 10,000 pages worth of data into digital. once he was done, they told him internship is over.
@Patrick C So apply to another internship but that doesn't happen to many people. Most people get job offers after the internship ends. A company won't pay interns until proven and built training + experience to do the job. Once you do that, then they'll hire you. They don't want to risk paying someone giving the job that you can't do + lack of time to train you. That's some of the reasons.
Carlos is amazing. I did so many unpaid internships. I think 6 in total. It was crazy. Just got stuck in a cycle of unpaid work and living on the breadlines
Tbh I understand the no-salary thing as interns don't have any experience and the corporate has to use their time and resources to train interns. However, I think companies should offer an allowance for interns (for parking, gas, lunch, transportation, ect. ). Lots of companies don't care and they exploit the interns. It's nothing different from slavery. Everyone need to eat and survive. I hope there will be some changes soon. I'm sick of it
Unpaid internship is why I left the field of psychology and pursued a new career as a data scientist. Now I have no problem getting a job, is paid higher and have flexible hours.
Where I live, it's "illegal" for employers to take on unpaid internships...unless it's part of a college/university program. So, now, many programs have mandatory or optional internship courses and students pay an entire course's worth (or two, or three) to work for free.
yea its ridiculous, but most things in life are based on whose abusing the system. Some people are good people recognize the candidates sacrifice and reward them.. others simply continue to try and take advantage, because they can / get away with it. The same people who justify that their actions are "Not illegal" , and they constantly have to say it to make themselves feel better.
@@leoniejoyce7778 You're right, it's obvious a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance its better to take risk and make sacrifices than to remain poor
At my first internship, I got paid 2,000,000 VND/month (less than 100 USD/month), one day I was so sick I wasn't able to go to work, I got deducted 200,000 VND, that's like 1/10 of my salary and I only take 1 day of because I was sick. I also had to work overtime on Saturday & Sunday without getting paid because "it would give me more experience", I worked there for a month and stopped
I noticed this too. I was lucky I somehow pulled off an internship because I didn't have money or connections, but when you do them you realize generational wealth plays a large role into getting those positions, making those connections, and getting ahead in life. Sure I am white, but grew up poor but even I can't deny that minorities get the shorter end of the stick here because it's noticeable when you work in a place with upper middle-class white people and maybe 1 minority and this is after years of working in and out of tech and editorial and also why I think some form of blind applications is good unless you happen to be someone who's dad/mom knows someone who hires interns because I did run into at least one of those scenarios.
I believe African-Americans should get whatever job they can get and combine their savings with other African-Americans; to build their own black-owned companies. White people will always be racist, so African Americans need to create their business empires.
Honestly it’s really demoralizing to work unpaid and be unable to take care of your basic upkeep, fall deeper into debt and show up to the office the next day expected to be happy/productive
Apprenticeships teach you valuable, in-demand skills, and pay you while you learn. More people should consider working in industries that actually respect and value their efforts rather than ones that so obviously do not.
I had an internship when I was in college getting my BA in public relations and advertising. It lasted 1 summer. I did amazing work for them. They took me out to dinner for blowing up all their social media accounts. Well I graduated a year later and reached out to get a job. Crickets. Ghosted. It should be illegal.
Meanwhile in Sweden.. i had a long interview,did a personality test, did an IQ test and went through a technical interview to get an unpaid internship and.. still got rejected =D.
So they want the intern to use their gas, money, and time to provide labor for them for "Exposure" and "Experience". Exposure won't pay the bills. You might as well not work at all.
Unpaid internships got me a job. Yeah, it sucks because I didn't get paid, but future employers will appreciate the fact that you worked hard with no money to get ahead.
I was working as a Software Engineer in India I only got paid 70$ per month, obviously I quitted the job. And in India the employee is the one who pays for getting an internship. I didn't even know that there was paid internships.
The fact that upper management stated why compensate interns if they are enjoying the program just was upsetting. Management must be miserable at their jobs.
I was lucky that our school made it mandatory that the internships we do had to be a paid position, also agree with Carlos Vera, I interned at a communications agency in SF and I was shocked at just how 'white' the industry was (marketing/advertising) my whole life It was always in the back of my head that this was the case for corporate America but I wasn't prepared for just how uncomfortable and somewhat disheartening it was to experience it for myself.
We have a formal apprenticeship and internship system in the UK and my edtech ventures are working to make it even better. Degreeships are also the future.
Now that Data Science is hot cakes among tech jobs and Copywriting is hot cakes in Freelancing world, ppl in these would be willing to do free internships. They love buying popular BS and their reason for accepting it is "We would be paid handsomely after it so why care for money during internship"
Internships are supposed to be for the benefit of the student. To be able to apply your studies to the real world, not for companies to get free / cheap labor. Internships provide a lot of value to firms. A lot of research, we often take the projects of those who are swamped. Interns tend to bring fresh ideas and problem solving.
What's wrong with non profit jobs? Its good for your resume and you learn a lot helping your community. Government jobs is different story. Only downside is that outside of benefits, if the government shuts down, you lose your job because it's part of the government. When the government opens up, you get the job back. Private sector and non government jobs you can avoid that.
I appreciate this video though it would’ve been good to focus on current college students and internships. Almost everything is unpaid but the exploitation is so bad that their asking the interns how to do their job. Gen Z knows how to navigate the internet and social media management, so their being asked to do a 70k a year job for free with no compensation for travel. Most of the time, unpaid interns are losing money.
My father who is now 76 was a high school drop out, no university degree, and with a tiny bit of experience doing drafting at a small company was able to become an engineer for Ford Motor company for over 30 years and retired with a nice pension. He actually was so good at his job that they had to hire 2 engineers with university degrees to replace him, and I think the both of them combined were making salaries that still added up to less than what he used to make. He never worked overtime, was out the door after the 8 hour shift was over He also built his own house, bought an empty lot cash and didnt have a mortgage. I'm sure these two new engineer grads are grinding it out paying off student loans, and cannot afford a home either. Ford made better quality cars in the 70s-80s than they do today with todays academia times have changed, outside of internships, I think university degrees are overrated, the education system is overrated, and these corporations are underpaying people because people are deseperate for a paycheck to survive in the hungergame society. The line out the door is so long for any good job that people are willing to undersell themselves and overprove themselves well in advance before ever receiving a paycheck whether its internship or paying for school to prove your qualified before applying for jobs. Experience is the best teacher but the system has found a way to take advantage of people on many levels for this desperation Even if were getting paid were all slaves because we are not getting the same quality of life and the true middle class lifestyle my father once had, because in our generation that has been taken away.
@@tylerjodeblock1224 I love your way of thinking. As a senior in high school, what advices can you give me that relates to what you have stated above??
@@tylerjodeblock1224 Yup good point. Your father was a smart man. I applaud you and loved your story. That's how you do it in America. Back in his days, it was easier to get a job and cost of living wasn't the same. Because of that. He bought a house quickly but in today's generation with jobs difficult to get. You can't do things easily and let alone buy a house. Follow his foot steps. Glad to hear your story. Crazy. But did your father train those new engineer grads? Since he had experience over them and did his job well.
The solution to this is to do federally enforced OTJ across any job. There will be no way you can't learn something practical while slowly but gradually make more month by month as you get better.
The disturbing part for me is there are job postings out there that require you are a part of a university that requires an internship. So people who can't afford university who want the job can't even access the opportunity to get their foot in the door!? Only university students allowed?! Ridiculous. Employers want to make sure it's through a university so they can feel justified to get free labor. I've accepted that's how it is, and I'm enrolling in a university this year in Canada soon. Hopefully there are advocates for unpaid interns in Canada too. In my experience, some internships can really be valuable experiences, while others can feel exploitative. Fingers crossed my next one is a good one. I think putting a universal cap on a period of time internships are done without pay would be a game-changer. I say 3 months max unpaid time before you gotta pony up the cash (Same length as most companies probationary period).
This is a valid point. Just another way we promote classicism and punish those who can’t afford to go into massive amounts of debt to attend colleges/universities. Best of luck to you
@@inthebooks3947 yea lol, that’s like the people who say “Bill Gates didn’t graduate college, so you shouldn’t either” You aren’t Bill Gates, getting a degree will, on average, earn you much more than not obtaining one (as long as you choose the right major). Just as most unpaid internships are scams, and not like Jack.
In my opinion Unpaid internship are way better than literally just going to college as a business major. You can learn way more in an internship than your whole college journey (business majors only). At least in an internship you're learning valuable stuff for free, it's all based on your point of view.
@@nessa749 I think he means compared to college, where you have to pay to learn stuff from a textbook compared to at least not having to pay for an unpaid internship and getting experience
I couldn't land a paid internship during college and really badly needed an internship before graduating. I did an unpaid internship and two part-time jobs at the same time, but it was not a high-quality internship. Did nothing for me after graduation. The job I got was through connections with fellow students, but I am certain that the unpaid internship I did played no role in my getting hired. My time would've been better spent working more at that time to save up for my car earlier to open up more opportunities.
I have done 2 internships in Germany. And both of them were paid. They were in tech sector. I would rather work in a storage facility (aka odd job) than an unpaid internship. And based on those 2 paid internships got 2 working student positions which is basically like half the work for the same amount of money. Long story short, I would never do a job that does not pay my bills. I cannot have a full rice bowl with experience. And my experience says that most of the unpaid internships are crappy even in Germany.
Here in Japan, cmpanies actually pay their interns. In addition to a real salary, Japanese companies also pay all interns’ and employees’ transport expenses, typically buses and trains. Having paid internships is important; having unpaid internships is just exploitation and modern-day slavery.
This is a byproduct of the minimum wage. A person who’s spending most of their “work” time asking questions and distracting the higher value employees is not going provide enough value to justify paying minimum wage. But, since it’s illegal for the worker to accept a job that pays what their true value is, they get paid zero.
Most people in their 20s all they do is partying every weekend, living off one income stream, its just few people in their 20s is using the weekend to get ahead, investing 20% of their money, building multiple streams of income.
A couple hundred years ago wealth was created brick by brick laid on a steady foundation, foundation where pyramid had no chance of collapsing. 99% of success is by picking yours battles. Don’t invest in what you don’t understand or believe in, so simple, yet so difficult.
@@jessicamoore3093 How do one actually know the actual business going on behind every stock market? because i would guess that market would move a certain direction and it will go in a whole different direction and it can be exhausting.
@@richardwoods4288 In situations like this I always advise people on getting a coach at least someone that understands price actions and all that while you strive on improving yourself by watching videos and learning fundamental analysis.
@@fredgallag6097 i concur with the idea of an investment coach but getting someone who is capable and reliable is where the problem lies. everybody claims to be good until you actually need them. Have you used a coach? what is the experience like?
@@richardwoods4288 I cant divulge much but *Grace shukman yung* have been coaching me for quite sometime now and through her guidance I have been able to grow my bag from her trading strategies, signals and advise, started with $10k and have made over $105k from compounding that initial capital over the period of 7 months.
My first internship was unpaid back in New York. I wouldn’t day it was bad since it gave me the opportunity to land a paid intern then a full time position. Since I was not that capable of getting a first paid internship, I gotta start some where
Unpaid internships are government sanctioned modern day slavery. Having to be on call at 11 PM sounds abusive. It looks like there aren't any checks and balances either.
It may feel that way but now a days companies don't want to hire people without job experience. Most of them don't want to hire anymore. Get a part time job while you do an internship. Be smart ppl. Companies don't do paid job training and don't want to hire someone and paying them while they can't do the job. They lose money from paying and hiring you. That's the point of internships. They don't pay you until you get experience and they hire you. Then they'll pay you. Yes some internships are paid but that's because some companies can afford to do so, but not all of them can't or do. Anyway I'm done.
@Kevin Souza Yeah I understand that not everyone can. That's why it comes down to priorities and schedule. I never had to deal with that because of my parents but everyone's situation is different.
i did 3 unpaid internships, 2 of which were fortune 500 companies. BEST decision of my life. I got my feet wet, i networked in more ways that i thought would have.
Since the pool of educated people is at all time highs companies can get free labor and also get a "trial run" with the employee before shelling out any money.
If you work many unpaid internship because of my parents finances, most people don’t have that luxury. If you interned at Hearst magazines, they don’t hire FIT students for internships. Because of that law suit they blacklisted the whole college
Internships just don’t pay bills if you live in your own or just have expenses that need to be paid. Unpaid Internships are unfair to different social economic groups.
There are prevalent because you need experience to get a job and you need a job to get experience where nobody is offering anybody without experience a job.
Until 11pm??? In our company, we close at 5:30pm and if any employee or interns dares to stay past that time, I threaten to lock them in the office where they can stay the night. Needless to say, no one dares to stay past closing hour. Typically by 540 or thereabouts, the office is empty and dark.
I am so grateful for being paid for my internship at Mercedes, because otherwise it wouldn’t be possible for me to do it. It’s just unfair to not pay interns, they work and add value, so why not pay?
This is nothing more than a con game a predatory practices that they do on people and people are not rising up against it there standing there like a bunch of idiots trying to be part of a system that does not love or care about them you're in debt for student loans being overworked and underpaid when you finally do get a job and you got work internships to get a job that's BS
They just need to call it volunteer work.
You volunteer for non-profits not for for-profits.
I have listed all my unpaid internships as volunteer work in my CV. Luckily they were just two
We all know that paid internships leads to actual fullntime jobs. But why do internships that you won't profit when you can put that time and effort in things that gives passive income like real estate, cryptocurrency investments, stocks and forex trading🤷
@Meet Kevin ✓ hello Kevin, most companies offering internships won't actually tell you it's volunteer work when you first start you know that right.
@@newmnoey2571 I agree with you 100%. Puting your time and money into investments will surely yield passive income.
"that just sounds like slavery with extra steps"- Rick and Morty
@@bluehotdog2610 you make no sense wake up
@@bluehotdog2610 I think the supply issue isn't immigration but the surplus of college educated students who want a job in thier career feild. It's hard to get into high paying career. I think alot of interns should be at least getting some money because the employer needs trained staff. Though I don't like the idea of making it illegal because sometimes the small company you want to work for isn't taking interns. So you can talk your way into an unpaid internship that turns into a job. If the company publicly post the job I feel it should be paid but if it's a hire from someone who is basically volunteering to work then I don't see the problem.
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America: unpaid internships
India: Paid internships, but you pay to get the internship :)
Pitajee Singh, so true lmao !
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we are on the next level lol
or pay to get an unpaid internship XD , has happened to some
thats why I ignore every indian recruiter who hits me up on linkedin about an internship opportunity for that reason smh. Happened numerous times
Young ppl know your worth. You don't need to be making 6 figures off the bat, but don't ever work for free!!!
So don't work for free, yet pay for an education?
You just need to learn how to use an unpaid internship instead.
@@GameFuMaster Education is not the same thing as unpaid internship. It's paying for a service vs. making somebody money with your labor. NOT the same thing.
@@ZodiacEntertainment2 So homework isn't labor that which often isn't base don real world metrics?
You're probably one of the idiots who buy early access games to basically function as a QA.
@@GameFuMaster It's "labor" but nobody is making money off my homework (outside of rare exceptions). It's "labor" in the same way practicing guitar is labor; you are developing your mind or your skills and you are gaining something. I'm not going to turn in my English essay or my Chemistry homework only to have the teacher profiting off it. When you work as an unpaid intern, the company is making money on you. I know because I've worked in a company with unpaid interns! I've worked along side them! They do work that makes us money. They deserve to be paid for it. I was vocal about this to my old employer and I still am today.
No I don't buy Early Access games. Usually a scam. The only games I've bought in a pre-release state is Minecraft back in 2011 and Risk of Rain 2, which I only bought because I trust those developers from their past work.
@@ZodiacEntertainment2 I'm sorry, but you are clearly stupid. They're not making money off your homework... because they're already made money off your tuition, lol.
Like how did you even miss that?
A proper internship should also involve you TEACHING the interns. Telling them what processes you guys use and any other technologies. A proper internship is where you're diverting existing resources, i.e. a senior, towards something that would produce substantially less profits for the company (mentoring an intern).
If the intern is actually self sufficient and is actually producing effective profits for the company... then it's not an internship, it's an entry position.
A company using internships as an entry position is like a not-for-profit organization (that hardly spends any money on actual efforts) calling themselves a charity. There's nothing wrong with the words (internship/charity), but the way it's being misused.
before u say internships lead to a job… alot of companies say youre on a trial run of three to six months and then fire them and hire someone else as an unpaid intern on trial so they always have free labor
Yes and the interns always do the grueling work that nobody wants to do like programming and programming lol. Reminds me of the kitchen you do most of the work and get the least pay and the least respect.
When I post a job for a business type role, I will see 150+ applications. My friend the carpenter puts out an ad, and if he is lucky to get 1-2 people. We need to change the stigma of blue collar work, it's good money and not all trades will leave you crippled and broken by the time you're 50.
My first 'official job' was an unpaid internship. It was rough, knowing I was working for free with no promise of a job at the end of tunnel. I took on a side retail job just to pay for the transport, lunch and other associated costs to complete the internship. I'm grateful for the opportunity and I learnt a lot and it also helped me get my foot in the door.
But yes, this needs to change, people should be paid for the work they do and this culture or expectation of people doing internships in order to land a entry level job needs to change.
Agreed!
This very culture of unpaid internships is widespread. I did a 6 month internship in one of the leading hotel chains in India and I was not paid for the same. Would work up to 12-14 hours in a stretch, would be ill treated by the employees but had to do it. For the guests the Hotel was "an awesome experience" but for interns like me it was awful and abusive.
Hotel work is BRUTAL . having worked there and yeah 12-14 hours is pretty much a given. i went through multiple cycles of burn out. Nevermore. but for internship, best believe they'll work you to the bone and pay you dust.
If an internship requires a degree and 3 years of experience, it's not an internship, it's an actual job where employers want experienced people to get paid below minimum wage
I've been through the internship search (I've had 2). I find it funny when internships describe themselves as "paid" in job postings, and that pay is like a few hundred dollars a month for full time work. Thats not pay, thats a stipend.
Answer to the title: because corporations take advantage of people with little to no work experience to gain free labor.
Ya, some corps do this. But also gives you a chance to learn something new
Not necessarily, some people do analyst internships during freshman year that are unpaid in order to get a head start in lucrative front office jobs.
They’re still very competitive to get into
@@revl6151 that's from the perspective of a freshman. From the perspective of the company it's nothing more than free labour.
@@morgancody6752 shocked about your thought of an unpaid employee learning about a new industry is slavery. America education systems seriously messed you up.
interns with no experience generally dont have any skills that warrant pay. these interns provide very little value to the company. interns that provide actual value and work on actual products (for example software engineer interns) are paid heavily.
No mid sized or larger companies should be allowed to do unpaid internships.
I was making $23/hr at my internship, then I learned that the 2 French interns there are unpaid. They were surprised to learn that I am paid since we all are interns. They have to pay rent in an expensive COL city, while I'm living with my parents while commuting 1hr from outside the city. Not everyone can afford to accept an unpaid internship.
Why were you paid and them unpaid?
@@evileyez504 I guess paid internships are not popular in France so the company know they will have applicants even if the listing say unpaid. They also get school credit from their university for doing internship too.
Did you give them your money?
@@HaDao205 then the internship was a part of their education, that seems normal
@@nobel978 schools helping companies exploit students? They weren't just learning. They were working independently and adding value to the company. They should get paid by the company too.
I think unpaid internships should just be out right banned, I’m still doing the work a paid employee would be doing so i should be paid. If it was under any other circumstances that wasn’t an internship it would be Illegal.
My college required 2 unpaid internships just to graduate, the scam!
Wow crazy. Did you do a paid internship or unpaid. My school was fine with either. Most students got paid internship.
@@KS-cl8br they all but required unpaid. There was no help finding them, so without any resources you could only find unpaid options.
@@PaulHo That's a shame, hopefully you got some benefit from them.
@@KS-cl8br I graduated but couldn't get a job with it! 🤪 Still trying
@@PaulHo Best wishes to you going forward and finding success.
Abolish unpaid internships
Entitled Gen Z crap.
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp yes, people who work are entitled to pay. I fully stand behind that.
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp entitled because people want to be paid for their labor? How is wanting to be able to FEED YOURSELF or idk have money to get to work in the first place, even considered entitled?
@@AkshayKumar-ue1fp Garbage collectors get paid and yet graduate interns are expected to do this unpaid nonsense. Capitalism has been destroyed by corruption, greed and human nature.
@@chrislavey1465 Garbage collectors actually collect garbage - an important service to society. They should be paid more. Meanwhile you are forcing small business to pay to teach the craft/experience that they have accumulated over time. Big business pay their interns anyway.
An internship is basically free college. You don't expect your college to pay you do you? They give you the experience that you use to get a job - exactly like college.
My internship paid $21/hr, full time, every summer break during my years in undergrad. I think a big factor with this unpaid internship issue is people are vying for jobs in extremely saturated markets. My art major friends didn't expect to make close to $21/hr after college, let alone during.
Come on guys..
Paying a minimum wage for 2-3 people would not bankrupt a large company
Paying $12/hr a full time staff with degree vs paying a full time staff $20/ hr is a huge saving
$12 an hour for full-time staff is what the worker receives on the back end of company may be paying up to $20 per worker to cover other stuff like corporate taxes benefits, employer ID numbers, and a few other things here and there such as background check processing. Offer someone who may spend less than a few months. First a smaller company that has less than 15 people that would be crippling. For a large corporations however, this is easily covered and these are the sorts of people who hire intern to most likely pay.
I’m in my 60s and that unpaid internship is relatively new. When I was in college. That nonsense didn’t exist. If you got a job you got paid. PERIOD. I don’t know who thought that just getting the experience was enough. It’s not, especially with all the student loans a lot of you have. I think it is a terrible practice.
Yeah you want to call us back in the good old days where they asking went to pay people for their work and train people
Unpaid internship is nothing more than free exploitable labour. Your time is the most valuable thing you have do not give it away for free.
That's exactly the mindset of a company. Why bother hiring an inexperienced person then?
If you're willing to pay for education, which can arguably be not worth the money. Then unpaid internships are the better deal. Your time is worthless unless you're actually doing something with it.
An unpaid internship should just be a stepping stone to get a better looking CV and for a good reference.
For engineering, there seems to be a culture of paid internships, whereas in healthcare, most are unpaid. This is my experience/observation at least
Medicine is way worse...YOU PAY for the experience.
When I was a medical student, I was doing grunt work for residents,...doing their notes, getting blood draws , because ...well they wrote your evaluation and thus if you didnt help them out, they'd probably eff you over.
It's ridiculous.
As a Mechanical engineer I have never an unpaid internship, I Have also ever been paid under $20/hour for an internship. So your observation is accurate.
Exactly what I have noticed. It’s the same with majors in computer science, or project management. Those majors always offer paid internships (even international students majoring in those fields tend to have more opportunities for paid internships). However most degrees in the humanity sector tend to be, in general, unpaid (even worse if you are an international student).
Paid internships are out there! I had two paid internships during college, including one that was with the government. Plan ahead and look the summer before the next summer, paid internships go quickly.
My freshman year of college I was accepted into an unpaid internship under an Oregon Senator. I had to turn it down because I didn’t have the money to rent a place in Washington D.C. let alone buy a plane ticket or food. I always wonder how my life would’ve turned out if I was able to. Mind you I was able to work other unpaid internships in my home town and eventually take and then quit an unpaid internship in Australia. I quit of course because I was able to find full time work that actually paid me a live able wage (how shocking) in Sydney.
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@@juanshaftpatel7488 geez what's wrong with ppl like you
@@jolp9799 nothing.. it reality
The craziest thing is that you work for free but they treat you like they are paying a lot of money.
I was talked down to for not doing enough work even tho I was unpaid
a lot of unpaid interns do great work, but never get hired.
then they didnt do good work
@@juanshaftpatel7488 Wow. Happy assuming! Like that name btw 😀
@@juanshaftpatel7488 i had a friend get selected for an intership because they needed people to translate 10,000 pages worth of data into digital. once he was done, they told him internship is over.
@@DADEFUYE But what happened then? Did they give him a job offer for a role after the internship?
@Patrick C So apply to another internship but that doesn't happen to many people. Most people get job offers after the internship ends.
A company won't pay interns until proven and built training + experience to do the job. Once you do that, then they'll hire you. They don't want to risk paying someone giving the job that you can't do + lack of time to train you.
That's some of the reasons.
Carlos is amazing. I did so many unpaid internships. I think 6 in total. It was crazy. Just got stuck in a cycle of unpaid work and living on the breadlines
Wow..you should've applied for a normal job, not those interns..
Tbh I understand the no-salary thing as interns don't have any experience and the corporate has to use their time and resources to train interns. However, I think companies should offer an allowance for interns (for parking, gas, lunch, transportation, ect. ). Lots of companies don't care and they exploit the interns. It's nothing different from slavery. Everyone need to eat and survive. I hope there will be some changes soon. I'm sick of it
If a company can't afford to train workers, they can't afford to operate. They shouldn't be propped up with free collegiate labor.
Unpaid internship is why I left the field of psychology and pursued a new career as a data scientist. Now I have no problem getting a job, is paid higher and have flexible hours.
Wish I did that too! Now I’m trying to do a career change to data science.
Get your money. That's the way to happiness.
Not following your passion and purpose .
Life owes us all nothing.
Glad you are making money
I did the exact same thing. Went from Public Health to Information Science. Currently working a paid internship as a Network Engineer.
Congrats!
Where I live, it's "illegal" for employers to take on unpaid internships...unless it's part of a college/university program. So, now, many programs have mandatory or optional internship courses and students pay an entire course's worth (or two, or three) to work for free.
yea its ridiculous, but most things in life are based on whose abusing the system.
Some people are good people recognize the candidates sacrifice and reward them..
others simply continue to try and take advantage, because they can / get away with it.
The same people who justify that their actions are "Not illegal" , and they constantly have to say it to make themselves feel better.
Yeah, that's actually worse.
How many unpaid interns does CNBC have ?
Ufff
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@@leoniejoyce7778 You're right, it's obvious a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance its better to take risk and make sacrifices than to remain poor
@@carolynronnie8743 it's not ignorance but due to some unprofessional expert in the market
I recently got into forex trading and am already marveling over the profit am making
Even if they are getting certified as traines rather than employee's they should atleast get paid 40-45 percent of there initial Job's salary
Very important topic. Interns should get paid for their work and it ridiculous that companies aren’t doing that! Great video!
At my first internship, I got paid 2,000,000 VND/month (less than 100 USD/month), one day I was so sick I wasn't able to go to work, I got deducted 200,000 VND, that's like 1/10 of my salary and I only take 1 day of because I was sick.
I also had to work overtime on Saturday & Sunday without getting paid because "it would give me more experience", I worked there for a month and stopped
I noticed this too. I was lucky I somehow pulled off an internship because I didn't have money or connections, but when you do them you realize generational wealth plays a large role into getting those positions, making those connections, and getting ahead in life. Sure I am white, but grew up poor but even I can't deny that minorities get the shorter end of the stick here because it's noticeable when you work in a place with upper middle-class white people and maybe 1 minority and this is after years of working in and out of tech and editorial and also why I think some form of blind applications is good unless you happen to be someone who's dad/mom knows someone who hires interns because I did run into at least one of those scenarios.
I believe African-Americans should get whatever job they can get and combine their savings with other African-Americans; to build their own black-owned companies. White people will always be racist, so African Americans need to create their business empires.
Use punctuation. Perhaps your poor writing skills hindered your progress.
Honestly it’s really demoralizing to work unpaid and be unable to take care of your basic upkeep, fall deeper into debt and show up to the office the next day expected to be happy/productive
Thanks~~~~
Apprenticeships teach you valuable, in-demand skills, and pay you while you learn. More people should consider working in industries that actually respect and value their efforts rather than ones that so obviously do not.
I had an internship when I was in college getting my BA in public relations and advertising. It lasted 1 summer. I did amazing work for them. They took me out to dinner for blowing up all their social media accounts. Well I graduated a year later and reached out to get a job. Crickets. Ghosted. It should be illegal.
Meanwhile in Sweden.. i had a long interview,did a personality test, did an IQ test and went through a technical interview to get an unpaid internship and.. still got rejected =D.
Job search is the most soul crushing thing.
So they want the intern to use their gas, money, and time to provide labor for them for "Exposure" and "Experience". Exposure won't pay the bills. You might as well not work at all.
if i hear the word "exposure" One mo' gain, I am going to holla !.
Unpaid internships got me a job. Yeah, it sucks because I didn't get paid, but future employers will appreciate the fact that you worked hard with no money to get ahead.
I was working as a Software Engineer in India I only got paid 70$ per month, obviously I quitted the job.
And in India the employee is the one who pays for getting an internship. I didn't even know that there was paid internships.
The fact that upper management stated why compensate interns if they are enjoying the program just was upsetting. Management must be miserable at their jobs.
Experience DOESNT pay the bills
I was lucky that our school made it mandatory that the internships we do had to be a paid position, also agree with Carlos Vera, I interned at a communications agency in SF and I was shocked at just how 'white' the industry was (marketing/advertising) my whole life It was always in the back of my head that this was the case for corporate America but I wasn't prepared for just how uncomfortable and somewhat disheartening it was to experience it for myself.
We have a formal apprenticeship and internship system in the UK and my edtech ventures are working to make it even better. Degreeships are also the future.
What's worse: unpaid internships or the hiring process (upload your resume and reenter all the information again)?
Don't study majors with an oversupply of talent pool who are willing to work for free. Problem solved.
They happen to be one of the high paying job
Exactly
Now that Data Science is hot cakes among tech jobs and Copywriting is hot cakes in Freelancing world, ppl in these would be willing to do free internships. They love buying popular BS and their reason for accepting it is "We would be paid handsomely after it so why care for money during internship"
Thanks for speak up over this issue
Internships are supposed to be for the benefit of the student. To be able to apply your studies to the real world, not for companies to get free / cheap labor. Internships provide a lot of value to firms. A lot of research, we often take the projects of those who are swamped. Interns tend to bring fresh ideas and problem solving.
Interns get HIRED by the company. They must have a different type of employment contract but they must be paid. Period.
No true don't. I did unpaid internship.
I did 2 internships that didn’t help. Eventually I had to switch careers
Lesson for upcoming college students: avoid Fashion, Media, and PR as majors. And avoid non profit organizations & government jobs
What's wrong with non profit jobs? Its good for your resume and you learn a lot helping your community. Government jobs is different story. Only downside is that outside of benefits, if the government shuts down, you lose your job because it's part of the government.
When the government opens up, you get the job back. Private sector and non government jobs you can avoid that.
lol there are lots of rich people in fashion but they only got there bc they already were wealthy and benefitted from nepotism
Nice to see people stand up and win to the big corporate great to see a Latino got the ball rolling keep up the fight.
win by becoming a wage slave?? youre stupid
I appreciate this video though it would’ve been good to focus on current college students and internships. Almost everything is unpaid but the exploitation is so bad that their asking the interns how to do their job. Gen Z knows how to navigate the internet and social media management, so their being asked to do a 70k a year job for free with no compensation for travel. Most of the time, unpaid interns are losing money.
Most ridiculous reason for not hiring an unpaid intern
Lack of experience 😂
My father who is now 76 was a high school drop out, no university degree, and with a tiny bit of experience doing drafting at a small company was able to become an engineer for Ford Motor company for over 30 years and retired with a nice pension. He actually was so good at his job that they had to hire 2 engineers with university degrees to replace him, and I think the both of them combined were making salaries that still added up to less than what he used to make. He never worked overtime, was out the door after the 8 hour shift was over
He also built his own house, bought an empty lot cash and didnt have a mortgage. I'm sure these two new engineer grads are grinding it out paying off student loans, and cannot afford a home either.
Ford made better quality cars in the 70s-80s than they do today with todays academia
times have changed, outside of internships, I think university degrees are overrated, the education system is overrated, and these corporations are underpaying people because people are deseperate for a paycheck to survive in the hungergame society. The line out the door is so long for any good job that people are willing to undersell themselves and overprove themselves well in advance before ever receiving a paycheck whether its internship or paying for school to prove your qualified before applying for jobs. Experience is the best teacher but the system has found a way to take advantage of people on many levels for this desperation
Even if were getting paid were all slaves because we are not getting the same quality of life and the true middle class lifestyle my father once had, because in our generation that has been taken away.
@@tylerjodeblock1224 I love your way of thinking. As a senior in high school, what advices can you give me that relates to what you have stated above??
@@tylerjodeblock1224 Yup good point. Your father was a smart man. I applaud you and loved your story. That's how you do it in America. Back in his days, it was easier to get a job and cost of living wasn't the same.
Because of that. He bought a house quickly but in today's generation with jobs difficult to get. You can't do things easily and let alone buy a house.
Follow his foot steps. Glad to hear your story. Crazy. But did your father train those new engineer grads? Since he had experience over them and did his job well.
Carlos and the other co founder are amazing making that much real difference in a relatively short period
The solution to this is to do federally enforced OTJ across any job. There will be no way you can't learn something practical while slowly but gradually make more month by month as you get better.
The disturbing part for me is there are job postings out there that require you are a part of a university that requires an internship. So people who can't afford university who want the job can't even access the opportunity to get their foot in the door!? Only university students allowed?! Ridiculous. Employers want to make sure it's through a university so they can feel justified to get free labor. I've accepted that's how it is, and I'm enrolling in a university this year in Canada soon. Hopefully there are advocates for unpaid interns in Canada too. In my experience, some internships can really be valuable experiences, while others can feel exploitative. Fingers crossed my next one is a good one. I think putting a universal cap on a period of time internships are done without pay would be a game-changer. I say 3 months max unpaid time before you gotta pony up the cash (Same length as most companies probationary period).
This is a valid point. Just another way we promote classicism and punish those who can’t afford to go into massive amounts of debt to attend colleges/universities. Best of luck to you
Government: Bans unpaid internships
Companies: Offers "paid" internship at $0.01 an hour
yeah, they'd probably anticipate companies will try to get around it and enforce a sort of internship minimum wage.
Unpaid internships will end when people stop accepting them. It’s that simple.
Jack was basically Graham Stephans unpaid intern now look at the lad
Individual examples don’t work
@@inthebooks3947 yea lol, that’s like the people who say “Bill Gates didn’t graduate college, so you shouldn’t either”
You aren’t Bill Gates, getting a degree will, on average, earn you much more than not obtaining one (as long as you choose the right major). Just as most unpaid internships are scams, and not like Jack.
I should be grateful for my paid internship 🙏🏻
In my opinion Unpaid internship are way better than literally just going to college as a business major. You can learn way more in an internship than your whole college journey (business majors only). At least in an internship you're learning valuable stuff for free, it's all based on your point of view.
How am i learning it for free when the cost to undertake this internship is on me and i get nothing in return (monetarily at least)
@@nessa749 I think he means compared to college, where you have to pay to learn stuff from a textbook compared to at least not having to pay for an unpaid internship and getting experience
Do you have a BS in Business or an MBA?
It's time for revolution everybody please wake up
I couldn't land a paid internship during college and really badly needed an internship before graduating. I did an unpaid internship and two part-time jobs at the same time, but it was not a high-quality internship. Did nothing for me after graduation. The job I got was through connections with fellow students, but I am certain that the unpaid internship I did played no role in my getting hired. My time would've been better spent working more at that time to save up for my car earlier to open up more opportunities.
I have done 2 internships in Germany. And both of them were paid. They were in tech sector. I would rather work in a storage facility (aka odd job) than an unpaid internship. And based on those 2 paid internships got 2 working student positions which is basically like half the work for the same amount of money. Long story short, I would never do a job that does not pay my bills. I cannot have a full rice bowl with experience. And my experience says that most of the unpaid internships are crappy even in Germany.
Here in Japan, cmpanies actually pay their interns. In addition to a real salary, Japanese companies also pay all interns’ and employees’ transport expenses, typically buses and trains.
Having paid internships is important; having unpaid internships is just exploitation and modern-day slavery.
The corporate world keeps on trying to take advantage as much as they possibly can, which is why I am looking for a new job 😭💰 #broke
This is a byproduct of the minimum wage. A person who’s spending most of their “work” time asking questions and distracting the higher value employees is not going provide enough value to justify paying minimum wage. But, since it’s illegal for the worker to accept a job that pays what their true value is, they get paid zero.
Most people in their 20s all they do is partying every weekend, living off one income stream, its just few people in their 20s is using the weekend to get ahead, investing 20% of their money, building multiple streams of income.
A couple hundred years ago wealth was created brick by brick laid on a steady foundation, foundation where pyramid had no chance of collapsing. 99% of success is by picking yours battles. Don’t invest in what you don’t understand or believe in, so simple, yet so difficult.
@@jessicamoore3093 How do one actually know the actual business going on behind every stock market? because i would guess that market would move a certain direction and it will go in a whole different direction and it can be exhausting.
@@richardwoods4288 In situations like this I always advise people on getting a coach at least someone that understands price actions and all that while you strive on improving yourself by watching videos and learning fundamental analysis.
@@fredgallag6097 i concur with the idea of an investment coach but getting someone who is capable and reliable is where the problem lies. everybody claims to be good until you actually need them. Have you used a coach? what is the experience like?
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My first internship was unpaid back in New York. I wouldn’t day it was bad since it gave me the opportunity to land a paid intern then a full time position. Since I was not that capable of getting a first paid internship, I gotta start some where
Unpaid internships are government sanctioned modern day slavery. Having to be on call at 11 PM sounds abusive. It looks like there aren't any checks and balances either.
It may feel that way but now a days companies don't want to hire people without job experience. Most of them don't want to hire anymore. Get a part time job while you do an internship.
Be smart ppl. Companies don't do paid job training and don't want to hire someone and paying them while they can't do the job. They lose money from paying and hiring you.
That's the point of internships. They don't pay you until you get experience and they hire you. Then they'll pay you. Yes some internships are paid but that's because some companies can afford to do so, but not all of them can't or do.
Anyway I'm done.
@Kevin Souza Yeah I understand that not everyone can. That's why it comes down to priorities and schedule. I never had to deal with that because of my parents but everyone's situation is different.
i did 3 unpaid internships, 2 of which were fortune 500 companies. BEST decision of my life.
I got my feet wet, i networked in more ways that i thought would have.
What’s more absurd is paying for your internship. In the dietetics field you have to do this to become licensed 😩
Since the pool of educated people is at all time highs companies can get free labor and also get a "trial run" with the employee before shelling out any money.
It should be illegal.
We need to make a petition
You have my vote! This is modern slavery
@@theglassmind Yes. To Korpo Rate Amerika
Some internships, especially in niche industries, even charge students for them to join.
No response? Shocker!
If you work many unpaid internship because of my parents finances, most people don’t have that luxury. If you interned at Hearst magazines, they don’t hire FIT students for internships. Because of that law suit they blacklisted the whole college
Internships just don’t pay bills if you live in your own or just have expenses that need to be paid. Unpaid Internships are unfair to different social economic groups.
It’s not just that the internships are unpaid you have to pay for the credits on top of it
There are prevalent because you need experience to get a job and you need a job to get experience where nobody is offering anybody without experience a job.
This needs to be fixed. Colleges and governments need to do something
I feel employer should at least pay minimum wage for an internship so the person is getting something to live on.
This is also a big deal for dietician interns
Nice work 🎆✨
It seems like a very predatory practices they're just taking advantage of people but people are not rising up in fighting against it
This should be illegal every one should be paid for working
I agree, unpaid labor is inhumane
Was just “terminated” from mine today! I totally recommend it
🤣🤣 terminated from free labor.. you should have thanked them
@@dcgaming7249 💀💀
@@JalenF i mean enjoy the week end for what is worth. you won't miss them
Until 11pm??? In our company, we close at 5:30pm and if any employee or interns dares to stay past that time, I threaten to lock them in the office where they can stay the night. Needless to say, no one dares to stay past closing hour. Typically by 540 or thereabouts, the office is empty and dark.
Now-a-days in India some people even pay the employer to get an unpaid internship. Just ridiculous
Don’t do internships do co-ops
Please expand 😊
My corporate America internship was paid and I was told it was because someone got sued so now everyone has to do it.
I am so grateful for being paid for my internship at Mercedes, because otherwise it wouldn’t be possible for me to do it. It’s just unfair to not pay interns, they work and add value, so why not pay?
It’s more or less a trade off there are pros and cons. Also hopefully Gen z don’t gotta deal with that
This is nothing more than a con game a predatory practices that they do on people and people are not rising up against it there standing there like a bunch of idiots trying to be part of a system that does not love or care about them you're in debt for student loans being overworked and underpaid when you finally do get a job and you got work internships to get a job that's BS
In 2022 internship should be paid people need money to survive if not the economy should be unpaid too like stop billing them.
We have all been conditioned to be doing, doing in our lives, but one sustained thought is more powerful than any action you can ever take.
Worked unpaid internship never agai.