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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 40013" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Interns, and the use thereofInterns are supposed to be the white collar equivalent of apprentices, but I agree if they cost too much, and aren&#039;t allowed to do productive work this will limit the value of their experience to them, or economic rationale for employers to participate. Employers will always want an opportunity to kick the tires before hiring people full time. The more restrictive regulations imposed upon firing, the more value in trial employments. I am of the opinion that strict firing restrictions in Europe are one reason for high youth unemployment there.Of course opinions vary. JRPS: I recall during my brief matriculation as an engineering student, I held two co-op jobs, one as a draftsman and another as a QC inspector. Neither of these were minimum wage jobs and permanent positions for adults at both businesses. In both jobs I did real work, and earned my paycheck. From my perspective they were low rungs on my career ladder. The employer got an overqualified individual, for brief fixed intervals, I got an opportunity to gain practical experience and understanding of a couple industries from the inside (a win-win IMO). I even came up with an invention to simplify one of the boring rote jobs I had to perform in the QC gig, but couldn&#039;t interest the employer to develop it (as a freshman engineering puke, I didn&#039;t have the skills myself, yet). In hindsight I still think it was a good idea, but I like most of my ideas, even when others don&#039;t. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 40013, member: 126"] Re: Interns, and the use thereof Interns are supposed to be the white collar equivalent of apprentices, but I agree if they cost too much, and aren't allowed to do productive work this will limit the value of their experience to them, or economic rationale for employers to participate. Employers will always want an opportunity to kick the tires before hiring people full time. The more restrictive regulations imposed upon firing, the more value in trial employments. I am of the opinion that strict firing restrictions in Europe are one reason for high youth unemployment there. Of course opinions vary. JR PS: I recall during my brief matriculation as an engineering student, I held two co-op jobs, one as a draftsman and another as a QC inspector. Neither of these were minimum wage jobs and permanent positions for adults at both businesses. In both jobs I did real work, and earned my paycheck. From my perspective they were low rungs on my career ladder. The employer got an overqualified individual, for brief fixed intervals, I got an opportunity to gain practical experience and understanding of a couple industries from the inside (a win-win IMO). I even came up with an invention to simplify one of the boring rote jobs I had to perform in the QC gig, but couldn't interest the employer to develop it (as a freshman engineering puke, I didn't have the skills myself, yet). In hindsight I still think it was a good idea, but I like most of my ideas, even when others don't. :-) [/QUOTE]

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