y_student

What do you think about this internship. To me, seems as a great resume builder, a way to develop communication and management skills, and to expand connections. Besides $$$. I know that it was ranked pretty high on Princeton Review Rankings. However, does look attractive to potential employers or when applying to grad school?
Here's a web site: http://www.collegeworks.com/students/

Powercat

I couldn't even find a top 100 list on Princeton Internship Review. This is sounding pretty funky. I got only CollegeWorks and a '94 entry

sky

Looks like a scam to me. Perhaps not in the traditional sense, but they are taking advantage of young college students eager for an "internship" and experience-building. This would hardly qualify as an internship by any traditional standards. You can replace the company name with McDonalds and have it say the exact same thing. All they are trying to do is get cheap labor. You think a real company is going to care that you painted houses all summer long?

In some ways, sounds similar to other scams like Vector marketing.

CollegeKid

You just paint... so no. It's funny how much they throw out there on the main page, they hardly even emntion the fact that you'll be painting.

y_student

No, you are not allowed to paint. You recruit people to paint and find houses to paint, make sure that that everyone is happy...

kbenk321

The College Works Internship Program is not a scam. A scam would be considered any attempt to gain money, goods, or services from an individual by deceptive means without giving anything in return. This internship does just the opposite. They do not require you to "buy in" to the company, like some similar companies and they also do not require for the interns to take on any form of debt. All the training and mentoring is free as well. I participated in and completed this internship and it was a great experience. I developed and improved my communication, leadership, managerial, and time management skills as a result. The students essentially are trained and then, under their mentors supervision, setup a small business which they run through the summer. Its unlike any other program out there. I made about $13,000 over the summer, which I believe is decent for an internship. Especially considering many of the internships I looked into are not paid. With those internships, your payment is the training, experience, ect. and the possibility that you may be offered a job with the company upon graduation. College works is also a career opportunity. Many interns return to work with the company for many years after. The bottom line is it is easy to write this program off as a scam because there are so many others that are similiar and very well may be scams, or may require the students to pay startup costs or "buy in" to the company almost like it is a mini franchise. This is not the case with college works. I would suggest, in the future, before making posts, that you educate yourselves on the company/ program in question.

Regards

p.s. If anyone has any further questions regarding this internship. Or if you may be interested in participating, please email me for information

openedskittles

^ So we have established that College Works employees are posting in College Confidential.

proteinmachine

haha. fail by the college works employee. i'm pretty sure its a scam and there are tons of better internships out there.

batdoi

what about College Pro?
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I'm pretty sure they're legit. Has anyone worked for them?