{"id":9919,"date":"2018-11-23T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=9919"},"modified":"2018-11-23T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T10:52:53","slug":"more-than-a-quarter-of-graduates-have-taken-an-unpaid-internships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/more-than-a-quarter-of-graduates-have-taken-an-unpaid-internships\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a quarter of graduates have taken an unpaid internships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of these internships are in retail, media and fashion were unpaid, this an according to a survey that was taken out by 2,600 graduates and 1,000 business leaders. The report comes for a wanted ban for unpaid internships of more than four weeks. This will be brought up in the House of Commons very soon.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Sutton Trust, Sir Peter Lampl said: &#8220;Unpaid internships prevent young people from low and moderate-income backgrounds from accessing careers in some of the most desirable sectors such as journalism, fashion, the arts and law,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a huge social mobility issue. It prevents these young people from getting a foot on the ladder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The highest proportion of unpaid internships were found to be in retail (89%), arts (86%), and the media (83%). However, in IT only 26% were unpaid internships.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment the minimum wage must be paid to interns who work a set number of hours or are given specific tasks by managers; most graduates and employers do not know or are confused by the rules of internships. The result of the survey showed that 43% of interns live with family or friends, 26% needed money from parents and 27% took a paid job to fund the internship.<\/p>\n<p>What is an internship?<\/p>\n<p>An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organisation, usually lasting for a fixed time or period. They are normally taken by students or graduates to help gain experience and skills before going into a work place. Interns can last a few weeks and during the summer holidays. Interns usually have to be 18 to 25 years old, some employers may stretch this depends on the place of work.<\/p>\n<p>Internships will help you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase your skills and knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Improve your understanding of a particular job or industry<\/li>\n<li>Show you how roles work that you may have not considered<\/li>\n<li>Give you chance to experience the industry before doing into it<\/li>\n<li>Help you gain an insight of the organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of these internships are in retail, media and fashion were unpaid, this an according to a survey that was taken out by 2,600 graduates and 1,000 business leaders. The report comes for a wanted ban for unpaid internships of more than four weeks. This will be brought up in the House of Commons very&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[123,47,71,43],"class_list":["post-9919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-123","tag-business","tag-news","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9920,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9919\/revisions\/9920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}