It is a hard dilemma for students. Unpaid internships can give great experience, bolster resumes and provide contacts for a well-compensated career. They also create great economic burdens in a down economy.
World On Campus explains how students with unpaid internships receive fewer job offers than those with paid internships.
Josh Sandburn at Times magazine says in his article about unpaid interns, "In the workplace, there seem to be two long-established but contradictory rules: Everyone gets paid to work — unless there's mindless drivel to do, of course, and then you get college kids to do it for free. … Thanks to the struggling economy, companies were now relying on interns to do entry-level work without having to pay them wages or benefits." Deseret News
