Internships

My focus today was applying on Creative Hotlist which is an extremely user friendly website for designers looking for work, probably my favorite website so far, and it is free to join. You choose your job search "designer," and then you have a few other options if you would like to narrow your results, but my favorite option is "level."

My first pick was the junior level, and then I downgraded to internship, after applying to every junior level entry. Having my preconceived assumptions of what would pop up, I wasn't surprised when about 50% were unpaid and of course hundreds of miles from my location. I was, however, surprised to find the requirements for internships:

-knowledge of company's productions
-1+ years of professional experience
-past experience with CMS frameworks
-compensation dependent on experience
-design degree required
-Benifits: large discount on store products
-unpaid 40 hours a week, with potential overtime

Wow, seems like internship is another word these days for "taking advantage of the newly graduated, unemployed, young America with student loans twice as much as our parents house costs."


Hailey Schultz