The New York Times Profiles Carleton Externship Program

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My hope as well. Unfortunately, until consumer confidence rises enough for private industry to feel comfortable about expansion and new hiring, these will remain the biggest players out there.

If you talk with parents of 2009 and 2010 college graduates, the longest lines at career fairs and the greatest rise in application numbers surround government and not-for-profit supported opportunities from Treasury, DOD, Homeland Security, Teach for America, AmeriCorps, Peace Corps… In the sciences over the past 6 months, academic research labs have landed newly minted Federal Recovery Act stimulus money. It’s allowed for expanded staffing with a lot of these new jobs now available to fresh college grads (most with STEM backgrounds).

Obviously, private sector hiring for college grads is not dead, but remains at a fraction of what once existed. And hiring often (again, as many parents of recent grads can tell you quite unhappily) takes the form more and more of the unpaid internship - de rigueur decades ago, never out of style in entertainment and media, now resurrected for all career paths. From two weeks ago, also in the NYT.
[The Unpaid Intern, Legal or Not - NYTimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html)