Unpaid Intern Jobs

North America has adopted the unpaid intern jobs and maybe some have overstepped the purpose and found free labour. It was initiated for near graduates to get their feet wet in the industry the had chosen for a career path. That was a great idea. Then when the job market began to dry up, more and more intern jobs began to surface. Suggestions that one could have a foot in the door when an opportunity for a paid job presented, and experience with companies one would like to have on the resume were offered as reasons to take the intern jobs. What it looks more like now is that corporations are getting free labour and not offering the training that was initially the reason for the program. CBC has carried a story on this current problem and noted that there are more than 300,000 unpaid interns working in Canada. Do you smell a rat?  The story I read sure smells ratty. Unless someone can justify this lack of training, exploiting unemployed graduates, and dead ends after they put in their time, I call it as I see it.

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What do you think?