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Friday 4 December 2020
Nine departments say they have done so since 2014.
Internships have acquired a bad name in recent years – but change is afoot. Éamon Cullen shares his tips on getting the most from a training position.
The new scheme aims to target young people who find it difficult to enter employment.
A recent survey from gradireland found that 76% of the 120 graduate employers surveyed run internship programmes.
Graduate jobs survey finds employers more likely to recruit those who interned for them as students.
It’s not all about binging on box-sets: this is the time to feather your CV for future employers.
A large number of employers are now looking for students rather than graduates for internships, writes Ruairi Kavanagh of GradIreland.
The glamour of it all.
The scheme has been widely-used, but never without controversy.
Having launched in March, Shake.io aims to connect students with paid graduate positions and internships.
* “Apart from politics of course,” the Tánaiste said.
Unpaid internships are largely the preserve of the well-off and reinforce disadvantage; JobBridge has levelled the playing field.
The force is currently seeking a “human rights assistant” and “legal/policing researcher.”
The placement is at a store in Galway City.
A school in Mayo has found a loophole, it seems.
The Council are set to vote on a motion that could make the local authority one of the first in the country to stop using the Government backed internships.
One on the interns said that after the internship “It was like nothing, as if it wasn’t there”.
Advance Pitstop has said that it is availing of the scheme to provide nine-month placements to interns across its branch network.
Young people, and all of those who are unemployed, should not accept the choice the government is trying to offer us between emigration or life on the dole and in unpaid work, writes Kevin Coughlan.
If we haven’t got God to fall back on what does this generation believe in now? Kate Bellamy takes a lighthearted look at what people follow today.
Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore also addressed concerns over the scheme, stressing that it will be implemented in 2014.
Internships are like extended job interviews – so adjust your attitude accordingly, writes Julia Purcell.
The Social Protection Minister has answered questions about the government’s flagship internship scheme in the Dáil today.
Minister Joan Burton has welcomed criticism of the JobBridge scheme, but what do you think of unpaid internships in general?
Figures provided to TheJournal.ie show that the Department of Justice and Equality currently has the most JobBride interns.
Minister Joan Burton says scheme is also being extended to include people receiving One Parent Family payment and disability allowance.
A survey of young people on college campuses finds that 53 per cent of interns felt undervalued during work placements.
Government decides to extend internship scheme to primary teaching grads who have to find 100 days of experience to register with Teachers’ Council.
As well as a butcher, a baker and, er, a picture framer…We take a look at some more of the “intern” positions being advertised through the Government’s National Internship Scheme.
Critics have branded the JobBridge initiative ‘exploitative’, while others say it provides valuable experience. What do you think?
Employer and online business MD Aaron McKenna says that while JobBridge is scattered with ads for unskilled, unpaid labour, internships – even unpaid – should not be written off as without merit.
The airline said the role advertised under the government’s JobBridge scheme would not involve overseeing safety practices.
In your Sunday Fix: A certain ginger-haired former media executive is arrested; the cost of smoking to Ireland’s economy; Come on Clarkey! and Hackgate: The Movie.
The government is hoping to create 5,000 internships from the scheme which was launched two weeks ago and insists it is happy with the progress so far.
RESTAURANTS AND GASTROPUBS are allowed to reopen across the country from today.
Ireland entered Level 3 restrictions earlier this week after spending six weeks at Level 5.
Non-essential shops and services have reopened, cultural institutions like cinemas and museums are back open and from today, you can once again dine in a restaurant.
So, today we want to know: Do you plan on going to a restaurant/gastropub this weekend?
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