When to apply for next summer's internships?

oldfort
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:41:08 +0000

On the free labor part, if you are an employer you need to be very careful with that. It could only be free if the internship has any educational value and it’s not displacing any regular worker. My firm will not let me hire any free interns for fear of violating labor law.

I talked my firm into letting me hire 2 interns this past summer, not because I needed to, but thought it would help out a few kids when the economy was so bad. It turned out to be the best money spent. For around 20/hr, those kids were doing work my regular staff was doing. They volunteered to come in at 6 in the morning and went home after 6pm. One of them is still working part time for me remotely from school. If any parent on this board is in the position of sponsoring a few interns should really consider it. I am going to do it again this summer.