Jobs: The Search: The Internship as Inside Track

Today’s question brings up a number of recurring themes here on Holla. I’m an MBA student, and one of our projects has been tasked with trying to figure out what is wrong with college career boards. How do you think we could make on-campus job boards better?

Summer internships offer an opportunity for young people to try out a profession and for employers to evaluate possible future hires.

An Internships.com survey revealed that employers prefer internship candidates with relevant experie

"Wedding Crashers" duo Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are teaming up again for "The Internship" — a comedy about two 40-somethings forced to intern at Google after losing their jobs.

While the job market for recent college graduates is still anemic, aspiring interns have reason to be hopeful. According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) survey, employers expect to hire more college students for summer internships this year. The survey revealed they anticipate hiring 8.5% more this year than last???and nearly all ...

Working for free isn't the preferred route out of unemployment, but it offers valuable experience and the inside track to jobs once they do open up. But critics say employers are exploiting the slow economy by not hiring paid workers.Malibu resident Ashley St. Johns-Jacobs, 40, typically rises before 5 a.m. to get to her job at the Los Angeles city attorney's office by 8 a.m.

If you believe the highest-paid interns are on Wall Street, you're wrong.

If you are among the many thousands of students interning this summer, you are undoubtedly aware that the importance of these opportunities has grown dramatically over the last several years.  The pressure to secure a summer internship has intensified, as has the competition for these positions.  Increasingly, internships are the [...]