Summary: Unpaid Internship

I did internship with Novogradac & Company LLP is a national certified public accounting and consulting firm with a major emphasis in the real estate sector. During my internship, I mainly audited property management company regrading cash account, accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, long term debts, revenue and expense account. Because Financial Report & Analysis I and II courses covered the accounting terms and journal entries in the last summer, I could complete assignments related to audits and journal entries. In addition, I prepared for balance sheets, income statements, statement of partners’ equity for partnership, direct and indirect cash flow statements for each rental property. I delivered required financial statements

To begin as far as political experience goes, I have done my best to partake in nearly every aspect of the political process. This journey began with involvement in State politics as I interned for Greg Abbott campaign during his 2014 bid for the Texas Governorship. In this role, I learned the art of canvassing, and phone banking as I always exceeded the minimum contact quota for the week.

Students receive on-the-job experience prior to graduation, and the internship assists them in obtaining permanent employment. Facilities benefit from the opportunity to participate in and improve the formal education process. Quite often, students who complete professional practice experiences are later employed by the facility at which they completed the internship.

He states, “Three-quarters of the 10 million students enrolled in America’s four-year colleges and universities will work as interns at least once before graduating … Between one-third and half will get no compensation for their efforts” (499 - 500). This evidence is relevant since it clearly supports the author’s claim that colleges allow unpaid internship. This may not necessarily imply that the colleges are bad, but this clearly shows the high occurrence of such cases. It shows the high number of students who do not get paid while working as interns. The information was taken from established research institutes, therefore the evidence is credible. The College Employment Research Institute conducts an annual survey of national employers seeking their intentions for hiring new college graduates ("College Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University"), while the Intern Bridge is the nation’s premier college recruiting, consulting and research firm (http://www.internbridge.com/). However, there was no information about the date when the statistic was taken or when the study was performed, and this made the evidence less sufficient. The evidence will be more sufficient if the date was mentioned and if it was current. Again, this evidence is addressed to students to present them with details about unpaid internship and be cautious when considering internship in their

Does the internship help the interns decide if they like this area of law? Does it affect the career choice for the interns? Finding previous relevant research that correlates with my topic was very difficult, because not a lot of studies have been conducted with respect to interns and internship effects., However, with using these keywords: legal setting, internships, interns, motivation. I was able to find three relevant articles that some how were relevant with the proposed study that I wanted to conduct.

In contrast to Koo and Hergert, I also looked at articles by Brown and Parent to compare the negative aspects to the positive. Deborah Brown discusses the relationship between and labor and employment. She found that some jobs believe that interns are different from full time employees so they are “not entitled to wage or overtime compensations” (Brown, 2014). The objective of Mike Parent’s article is to understand how there is an ongoing imbalance of internships and the number of workers for each one. He points out that the imbalance begins with the application process. He researched show that there was “enough positions for eighty-one percent of applicants, but only about two and half percent of them were accredited” (Parent, 2016). He found that the limited number of workers influenced the two main themes, stress and system issues.

Our present day job market has seen a marked increase in competition among college graduates. Over the past 40 years, we have seen a 20 percent increase in bachelor’s degrees in citizens over the age of 25 (“Fast Facts” 1). This increase in degree holders has exacerbated the competition of our job markets and has forced workers to seek a further competitive edge. According to an annual survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, an astonishing 95 percent of employers said relevant work experience is a major aspect in hiring decisions, and approximately half of the surveyed employers wanted the experience to come from internships (Hansen 1). Hence, many college students find themselves taking unpaid internships as resume boosters. Although these internship experiences are significant in providing college students with practical skills, their ethicality is highly questionable. Unpaid internships exploit interns, widen socioeconomic disparity, and offer little future benefit to interns. This paper will begin by framing the problem and highlighting the importance of this phenomenon. Following that, the multiple perspectives on this issue will be discussed and an analysis of the pros and cons of unpaid internships will unravel that unpaid internships are inherently flawed. Lastly, the paper will acknowledge that completely abolishing unpaid internships is an

Intern Nation by Ross Perlin tells you most everything you ever wanted to know about internships and then some. Equal parts history lesson, tell all and personal commentary, this should be assigned reading for anyone considering taking part in an internship. It has been coded into the minds of the young job seekers today that they must first work for free if they ever hope to find a good paying position. Perlin sends the necessary message though that the system that has been put in place to make this possible is cracked and presents a bad deal for internship seeking individual.

When thinking about graduating high school and going into college, do you ever think that you will get a job right when you graduate? Yes that may be the case for some individuals but for the more technical jobs and the ones that require more schooling for, look for student who have experience with their major. It is important to know the different internships that are offered throughout high school and college.

An internship can also heighten the awareness of community issues, motivates to create opportunities, embrace new ideas, and give direction to positive change. A successful internship can provide valuable information in making decisions about the direction of future studies or employment. An internship is an opportunity to not only use and develop industry-related knowledge and skills, but also to enhance some of the skills that are transferable to any professional work setting. For some people, the internship is the first introduction to the world of work. No matter where the skills and understanding of professionalism lie, internship is a chance to develop them even further.

desired jobs. Internships provide valuable experience necessary for jobs and are an important part of the academic career. However, when it comes to internships, the issue of unpaid internships may be raised with opinions differing on the question of the benefits of such unpaid internships. Many people believe that since a salary does not cover the emerging costs, like living expenses and transportation, unpaid internships turn into a pricy experience that lay an even

Internship is a six to eight weeks working experience in any organization. The purpose behind doing an internship is to get familiar with a professional working environment. Often students do internships during there vacations so as to gain experience in their field of interest. Students studying engineering, computer science, textiles or business management; they are required to perform at least an internship so as to receive degree from their respective institutions. The purpose of writing this essay is to share my wonderful working experience as an internee at Spyglass Winery. I loved every minute of it as I discovered several new skills and came across with some interesting job opportunities. This statistical analysis (www.fasttrackinternships.com) shows the rate of full time job placements according to the number of internships completed.

Typically, internships are professional experiences that students participate in to gain professional skills and experiences. In this particular experience at Accounting Firm X I did in fact gain substantial professional skill while participating in new and challenging experiences. Internships allow in- class material to come to life in a practical manner. My internship did do this but not in a way that I had planned.

An internship is no good if you do not make it work. Thus making the internship work for you is very important. To start out the student must want to direct their full attention to the internship because the internship is pretty much starting out their future. First impressions are usually suppose to be good so a student should not go into an internship thinking that it is going to be easy and that they can just blow through it. Internships should be beneficial for the students and the employer’s. The internship program coordinator should look for a few things when they are picking out the companies in which they are going to send their students to learn and gain experience. First off the firm in which you might be thinking about going into for an intern must have work for you to do. Sitting behind a desk all day staring out the window will not teach you anything. It also helps out when there are positive people surrounding the student intern. “For an internship to work, the firm’s principals must be available to supervise and teach.”(Berger 30) The student intern will usually have lots of questions and if there are good people around the intern to answer his or her questions and correct their mistakes then the internship will be quite beneficial.

In a business world, nowadays it isn’t just about whom you know, or what you know, experience is almost as valuable as education. It appears that almost all credibility comes from how long one has been in a particular field. Consider this, would you rather see a heart surgeon who just finished his or her residency, or a surgeon who has been practicing for many years? Almost always, experience is more enticing. This resulting in this epidemic that has college students and graduates hungry for experience, even willing to work for free, or in other words – internship. A compelling article published in a 2006 New York Times magazine, - “TAKE THIS INTERNSHIP AND SHOVE IT”, Anya Kamenetz uses ethos, pathos, and logos to lay out a thorough review of whether or not unpaid vs. paid internships are beneficial, not only for pre-graduate college students, but also for the economy as a whole.