The New York Times
Confronting the worst job market in decades, many college graduates who expected to land paid jobs are turning to unpaid internships to try to get a foot in an employer’s door.
While unpaid postcollege internships have long existed in the film and
nonprofit worlds, they have recently spread to fashion houses, book and
magazine publishers, marketing companies, public relations firms, art
galleries, talent agencies — even to some law firms.
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| Eric Glatt, 40, sued Fox Searchlight Pictures. |
Melissa Reyes, who graduated from Marist College with a degree in
fashion merchandising last May, applied for a dozen jobs to no avail.
She was thrilled, however, to land an internship with the Diane von
Furstenberg fashion house in Manhattan. “They talked about what an
excellent, educational internship program this would be,” she said.
But Ms. Reyes soon soured on the experience. She often worked 9 a.m. to 9
p.m., five days a week. “They had me running out to buy them lunch,”
she said. “They had me cleaning out the closets, emptying out the past
season’s items.”
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