A forum for interns to share their experiences and discuss the ethics of unpaid employment. Most importantly, we want this site to be a place where YOU can tell us your story.
We’ve been contacted by Tiger Aspect, who are making a documentary for BBC2 about access to the professions. As part of this they are exploring how people get their first job. This is what the lovely Anna has to say to readers of this site:
I’d love to speak to any people who are interning right now, about their experiences. All conversations are confidential, and for research only.
I’m on 020 7529 9410 or email me on annallewellyn@tigeraspect.co.uk
Thanks, Anna
So please do get in touch.
Behold! Interns Anonymous and Judgement Productions present a short but sweet documentary on internships.
NB: We are keeping this post at the top of the page for now – but please scroll down to see new posts as they arrive.
In a series of interviews, interns talk about their highs and lows, how they afford to work for free, the ways in which internships restrict social mobility and alternative systems to those that operate in the UK.
My advice to anyone reading this- do your damn internships during your university holidays. The financial support you have from your loan at least gives you the guarantee of some money when you start term again. Doing an internship after university is more of a lottery. There is no guarantee that it will lead to a job, and little chance of income if you don’t work like the devil on evenings and weekends or have family to support you.
I’ve spent the last 6 months doing two internships, one for a charity and one for an MP and I’ve really enjoyed both of them. They have boosted my confidence, given me the chance to meet lots of interesting people and I have genuinely learnt a lot. They also represent my commitment- hopefully someone looking at my CV will think, ‘yes he knows what he wants to do – he’s spent 6 months trying to prove it with internships’. But financing them has been tough.
For my MP I worked from 9:30 or 10 in the morning till often 7 at night. Then I would tube around London to any one of innumerable pub quizzes I host each night to make ends meat. I would often be home after 12. This isn’t to make a stoke broker’s wage – this is just to scrape by.
pub quiz winners looking happy
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We are making a documentary and we want people to speak about their experiences of unpaid work.
Whether you interned for an MP, for a newspaper, a PR company, a charity… we want to hear from you.
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