Career coach: Employing interns
In this week’s career coach column Kate Savage looks at the thorny issue of internships from an employer’s perspective.
Hi Kate. What are your thoughts on Interns? I’ve been put in charge of managing the process at my agency, but nobody seems to know if we have to pay and they all have different ideas of what the intern could/should do – can you help?
Ooh this is a Pandora’s Box…
I’d love to see an industry roundtable on this with HR, employers and interns – a no holds barred, but safe environment debate.
Trade apprentices get paid. There is no excuse for the ad industry not to do the same.
Name and shame all those ad agencies and design studios advertising for interns.
When I was a spotty 16 year old, I worked in an agency, for free, for 2 weeks. Is that classified as an ‘internship’, or is that just work experience? I mainly made tea!?
The PRIA has an excellent guide to employing interns which addresses pay rates and what the difference between internships and work experience. Its worth a look for any agency considering how to make an Internship porgram work for them and for the Intern.