Internships Archives

Interest in apprenticeships soars to record high, new data reveals

Aug 21, 2024 | 0

Since Google began tracking search data in 2004, searches for apprenticeships have surged by an astonishing 6145%!

Internships: The Definitive Guide for HR Professionals

Jan 2, 2023 | 0

While internships can provide valuable opportunities for personal and professional development, they can also present challenges and risks for both interns and employers.

HR internships are amongst the lowest paid, study reveals

Dec 24, 2020 | 0

How much does the average HR intern get paid a month?

Overall vacancies drop as internships rise

Jun 9, 2020 | 0

Contract positions increased by 25 per cent as IR35 delayed until 2021.

Shocking number of internships still unpaid

Nov 23, 2018 | 0

New Sutton Trust research has found that over a quarter of internships in the UK are unpaid.

Interns at Amazon, Apple and Facebook earn more than average employees

May 3, 2017 | 0

Interns at some of the world’s most famous companies earn more than the average American, full time, worker.

Internship controversially sold at auction for $10,000

May 6, 2016 | 0

The listing of a two-week internship at a charity auction – that sold for $10,000 – has prompted an avalanche of criticism. The notion of someone paying an exorbitant sum in order to work for free for an organisation has also been labeled as exploitation.

Robert Leeming: Are internships making the UK’s creative industry a middle class only affair?

Jan 29, 2016 | 0

An honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work. That has always been the adage that has kept the wheels of capitalism turning for generations. If you mentioned the notion of working for free to anyone from an older generation, they would find the idea abhorrent. They would slam the notion as exploitation, as not the way that things are supposed to work. And they would be right.

HRreview launches Graduate Recruitment Week

Jan 25, 2016 | 0

HRreview is this week taking an in-depth look at graduate recruitment. 2015 saw a 13.2 percent increase in graduate vacancies and 3.7 percent rise in graduate starting salaries.

Dupsy Abiola: Internships should help broaden perspectives

Jan 25, 2016 | 0

Dupsy Abiola is a changemaker, a restless spirit, who sees problems and then attempts to solve them. After watching her sister struggle to find work after university, she quit her job in order to build Intern Avenue, a platform that assists entry level talent find jobs in business.