<p>Unpaid internships for management positions, I hope! I know a person at my old College who had an internship at Wal-Mart; one was a paid IT position but I never found out how it went!</p>
<p>My experience with internships is a little different since I majored in Accounting. In this industry, there is a bifurcation – all internships are paid, reasonably well actually (I did not know any interns who were paid less than $20 an hour, but that may be a nonrepresentative sample! However, even the smallest firms paid their interns something and the goal is to treat the intern almost as if they were a first-year associate at the firm). </p>
<p>Externships, on the other hand, are unpaid ‘experiential learning’ type adventures where you visit an office for 1 or 2 days and listen to speakers and learn about the sponsor firm and the industry.</p>
<p>I do recommend both experiences as being extremely valuable. Many internships ended in an interview for a full-time position at the firm and even if they didn’t, as was mentioned above, you at least learn about the work and develop some professional contacts. I myself did two internships and I benefited from both of them even though I ended up signing an offer with a third firm! </p>