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Stop the slave internships still commonplace in communications

on Apr 27, 2016 | 0 comments

By Dom Burch

I had an interesting chat with the head of an agency the other day that took me by surprise.

I was retelling the story of how I got on the employment ladder all those years ago, a ladder I recently hopped off to take gardening leave.

When I graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University in 1998 with my 2:1 BA Hons degree in public relations, my first foray into the workplace was an unpaid summer internship with Saatchi and Saatchi in London.

I presumed such unpaid gigs had disappeared long ago, but I was staggered to hear 18 years on they are still common Read full story ›

Source: The Drum