The commission's recommendations were undercut by the Parliament's unpaid internships, and the fact that its own internships pay less than the minimum wage in Belgium, its host country.
One enterprising Duke graduate and biology major, Ben Tweel, 23, effectively created his own internship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center by offering to work as a volunteer laboratory technician.
And indeed the Owen Wilson/Vince Vaughn chemistry still bubbles away cheerily as they head into their mid-40s, and Max Minghella flexes some unexpected comedy chops as the despicable Brit keen to turn his own internship into a full-blown post.
Other noteworthy researchers include Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin, 20-something software engineer Rodney Folz, who began his own internship-focused survey as an undergrad at U.C. Berkeley, and companies that get paid by recruiters and job seekers, like LinkedIn, CareerBuilder or Glassdoor.
"It's a little like creating your own internship," said Jack Foley, the Aer Lingus executive vice president who developed the program in conjunction with Dr. Leo Giglio (pronounced JILL-ee-oh), a Dowling business professor, and Elana Stern, the institute's director.
My own internship was over.
According to High Fliers, a market-research firm, more than one-third of graduate vacancies in Britain are now filled from firms' own internship programmes.
I will never forget the look of surprise and terror on the faces of the incoming interns on the last day of my own internship.
Make your own internship up.
Paragon One works with smaller companies that, unlike Google or Goldman Sachs, don't have their own internship and campus outreach programs.
