Comments on: People who pay for internships are lazy

By: Moros

Moros — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:47:47 +0000

“And to those who pay agencies to look over their CVs and train them for interviews for extortionate fees, surely it shows little initiative, laziness and stupidity. What employer would want to employ them anyway?”

I’ve been stuck in Postgraduate-land for six years now. I can’t find a job, because I apparently have so many qualifications, I ‘scare employers off’ (this from a Jobcentre Plus worker/advisor).
I can’t get on the recruitment ladder. I would HAPPILY pay to get help. I now have absolutely no confidence, and am just biding my time until the last of my money runs out.
It’s people like you that make me wish I’d never gone into academia, and make me remember I could have actually been earning money by working at McD’s on minimum wage and living happily at home.

By: Charlotte Pritchard

Charlotte Pritchard — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:43:15 +0000

Hello, I work for BBC Radio 5Live – I’m looking into a story about the graduate talent pool and would be really interested in talking to you if that’s at all possible? It would just be an off the record research chat at this stage. I’m interested in finding out more about your internship with the GTP and whether you know anyone else who has done one through the scheme?
If it would be OK to have a chat I’d be really grateful – 07590 306 909 or charlotte.pritchard@bbc.co.uk . I hope to hear from you soon, Thanks a lot. Charlotte.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:30:16 +0000

By the same logic: you use your university careers department to look over your cv and train you – YOU’RE LAZY. Come on, grow up. You pay for those services indirectly anyway, in addition, you often can’t access them when you graduate.

In our society you are free to exchange money for goods and services. If someone wants to improve their prospects and sees this as a good way to do so, let them do it. It is their choice…