Leo’s great expectations (of unpaid interns)
Dr Mumbo knows that in 2014 internships are a crucial and important pathway into the advertising industry.
But he couldn’t help but notice that Leo Burnett is setting some pretty high standards for its unpaid interns.
An ad placed on The Loop is offering internships for two to three days a week with the prerequisite that the unpaid intern “must” “have big creative ideas that could play out on social media” and also “think strategically about how to better social ideas” (sic).
This doesn’t sound like an internship where the “final year university student or a recent graduate” will be making coffee and perfecting their filing skills.
Internships = slavery
People work for you, you pay them. Its not that hard.
Genius! Don’t even pay the juniors. That must be part of the reason Publicis Groupe made over $A1.2 billion profit worldwide in the 2013 calendar year
If you don’t pay young new comers you’re only going to attract little rich kids who don’t need to make the rent. Name a truly creative person in any field who came from wealth.
Im brazilian and I have 10 experience as media planner in Brazil. I have been looking for a internship (unpaid or paid) in Sydney for an year with no success… 2 months ago I finally found an unpaid marketing internship to get in the end of 3 months internship a reference letter to help me to find another job or internship, so if they crack down the unpaid internship it will shut down my pathway to get into the Ad industry as a media planner… Can anyone see another way for foreign to get into the industry a part of unpaid internship? please let me know. thank you