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This is a blog about an internship seminar that I attended. As everyone knows, internship seminar is about internships. I learn many types of internships, such as paid, unpaid, and with credit. Any for profits company internship must be paid or with credit. It is an illegal practice for those companies to recruit student and don’t pay money which is an unpaid internship. (And the wages must be equal or higher than minimum wage, or it would be an unpaid internship). Some for-profits companies were involved in lawsuits and paid for their lesson (some interns gain quite a fortune form lawsuits). So more and more internship are now either paid or with credit. In addition, an unpaid internship is more for non-profit organizations or companies.
If you want to gain credit from internships, you must be admitted to one of the schools and have a major. Moreover, the internship must be related to the major. Some company offer internships that require student to have credits from it(so they can avoid paying and don’t get lawsuits.) For freshman student, there will be a problem as we aren’t accepted into the school yet, and we can’t gain credits. However, the starr career center is providing a zero-credit internship course to solve this type of situation. They will explain to the company, and you could get the internship. Sadly, This does not apply to international students (me). So, international students must be accepted into a school then applied for internships.
There are also many resources on starr research to help us, such as find an internship, write a resume, and practice for interviews. There are walk-in sessions hold from Tuesday to Thursday (3 pm-4:30 pm). This internship seminar is very helpful to me, and I learn more about internships. I would definitely attend more workshop from starr to prepare my future career.
