Interns

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Many people, at some stage in their search for a career, have worked for free in return for some much valued experience. But it's surprisingly hard to find exact numbers. A 2016 national survey of 3,800 Australians found more than half (58%) of respondents aged 18 to 29 and more than a quarter (26%) aged…

Image via Freefrom Not to generalize, but it would be fair to say that a lot of social media accounts affiliated with major companies and corporations hire interns to do the heavy lifting, which is starting to backfire in the face of Disney wiping its spate of recent cancellations off the face of the planet. In the last few days alone, $50 million sci-fi blockbuster Crater was removed from Disney Plus exactly seven weeks to the day since it premiered, while Freeform original The Watchful Eye was kicked off of…

Listen to article(2 minutes)Swim instructors, ice-cream scoopers and camp counselors are among this summer’s most sought-after workers. Office interns? Not so much.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Listen to article(2 minutes)Swim instructors, ice-cream scoopers and camp counselors are among this summer’s most sought-after workers. Office interns? Not so much.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

When Mary Clare Lacke, a 20-year-old student at the University of Missouri, interned at Claire’s in the summer, one of her tasks was to help the teen accessories company with its nascent TikTok account. It didn’t take long for her to produce a hit — though it wasn’t one that the retailer saw coming. In an 11-second video, Lacke riffed off a pranking trend inspired by Kris Jenner to promote a style of the retailer’s earrings. “My team was just like, ‘We’re not 100% sure what this is, but go for it,’” Lacke said. “And then…

Too Long; Didn't ReadCodeword, a New York-based tech-marketing agency just created two AI employees and recruited them for three months internship. The name of the two interns is Aiko and Aiden. The two AI Interns will assist Codeword’s team of 106 employees. The interns will be given regular tasks, be overseen by an in-charge, and given performance reports like all other interns.L O A D I N G. . . comments & more! Too Long; Didn't ReadCodeword, a New York-based tech-marketing agency just created two AI employees…

We usually think of hospitals as somewhere safe, where patients get better or move on. The quote from Dante’s The Divine Comedy prefacing Austin Duffy’s latest novel implies an extreme version of this liminal space. This is underlined when his protagonist suggests his workplace resembles “one of those medieval paintings of hell, swarming with devils and the wretched”. The demons are the medical staff “directing the show”, the wretched are their helpless patients.The unnamed narrator is one of a trio of surgical interns on…