The arrangement is consensual, and companies often use internships to test potential recruits.
Also, don't forget, lots of companies use internships and work experience as a way of trialling graduates before committing to full-time contracts, so if you impress the chances of getting a permanent job are higher.
Use internships to go to big companies, small companies, companies near home and companies in different states or even countries.
Many postdocs use internships, as Andringa did, as bridges to jobs outside research, but some continue on as researchers and are better rounded for it, says David Taylor, who, after doing a postdoc at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), completed an internship in the hospital's administration department.
22. "Use internships, school activities and work as a way to get experience for your future job".
Access to internships is often restricted enough as it is – to enrolled students (sometimes at particular schools), to those with connections, to those using internship placement firms (increasingly common in the US), to those who can afford to work for zero or no pay.
Paul Sellers of the Trades Union Congress worries that "glamorous" industries such as television, film and public relations are using internships as an excuse for ripping students off.
Dayton has used internships as a glue to keep recent graduates, and the city found through a recent survey that graduates were twice as likely to stay if they had done an internship at a local business.
One recommendation in the graduate-education report was to use more internship and fellowship opportunities to augment the traditional graduate-school experience.
