Pay for an Internship?

Parents Forum
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<p>Paying for an internships is a bit like paying to do volunteer work. What you’re really paying for is an infrastructure that allows you to have this experience: someone will get you the position, guide/get you a visa, pick you up at an airport, arrange housing for you, show you around, and after your departure, make sure you have the necessary papers you need for your school. </p>

<p>If you’re capable of doing all that on your own – heck no, don’t pay. But most people need the support. </p>

<p>I’ve worked with an organization that places students in barely or non-paid internships overseas. The students come back with things for their portfolios (in the case of journalism students who are published in national publications) architectural work done with professionals in their field (in the case of architecture/urban planning companies) and financial reports used for RFP’s (in the case of a business/development company.</p>

<p>So yes, at least on these programs these kids DO real work. Work that helps them with graduate school admissions and real jobs. Whether that real work without pay is “worth” the expense… surely that is just as relative as deciding whether to pay tons of money for a private school degree or just some money for a public school degree.</p>

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<p>If your S eventually wants to work in the USA it seems that an internship here, especially in a nationally recognized company name, would be more useful from the perspective of company recognition when he applies for a job and also a potential job offer upon graduation - and - he wouldn’t have to pay for the privilege of working. They might even pay him.</p>

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<p>I was wondering if Packmom S had come up with anything yet…keeping fingers crossed for him…</p>

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<p>^^thanks…he needs all the help he can get! The interviewer told him that he would do some “research” on S2 and get back with him in few days. That was Monday. I’m assuming the “research” is a criminal background check.</p>