Website sells off desirable internships for charity
Yes, someone actually paid hundreds of pounds to work for free at the Daily Express
The Guardian’s Graduate section has a piece bemoaning the sale of internships and work experience. A charity, Pilotlight, have been selling placements with Channel 5 and the Daily Express, among others. (Let’s just ignore why on earth someone would want to work for either of these two companies, for now).
The Guardian’s message seems to be that this is a very bad thing. And on some level, it is. To get ahead in careers such as the media or politics, you have to spend a large chunk of your early twenties working for free. It’s difficult to keep a second job going if your full time job involves rushing around London from 8am until 8pm five days a week, picking up your MP’s dry cleaning.
So to pay for your six month stint of tea-making and dry cleaning collecting you have to: A) have lots of savings B) have rich parents, or c) live on the poverty line with a part time job. C isn’t very appealing and so people without A or B are often unable to get internships for financial reasons. Thus a glass ceiling appears for the less well off as you can’t get jobs in the media or politics without some unpaid labour. They will never become a doyen of work experience, like Tom Meltzer.
All having to pay for work experience does is remove the pretence: work experience is for people who can afford it. This is sad and upsetting but it’s true. As for Pilotlight’s auctioning off internships, it’s sad and upsetting but at least it’s in the name of a good cause.
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