Employers everywhere are faced with the decision to offer compensation as a part of their internship programs. Yet pay is clearly not a top priority for most companies, as 36.9 percent still offer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A great internship can be a springboard to a first job — perform well enough, and you could blossom into a full-time employee. But ...

In a big victory for unpaid internship lawsuits, a federal judge ruled last Tuesday that two interns who worked on the movie Black Swan for Fox Searchlight Pictures should have been paid. Federal ...

The question of whether employers should pay their college interns is a hot-button issue these days. Plenty of employers don't pay their interns; data compiled by online hiring platform InternMatch ...

Have a question? Submit it here. Unpaid internships can offer excellent learning opportunities if the arrangement is fair and designed to help you grow professionally. Question: I’m a rising sophomore ...

Unpaid internships can be a touchy subject for a lot of people. For some, it’s a temporary sacrifice to get one step closer to a paying job. For others, it’s just a tool companies that use to exploit ...

Correction: This segment stated that people with internship experience received more job offers and higher starting salaries than those who had not. In fact, paid interns received more job offers and ...

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Unpaid internships have long faced scrutiny for their inaccessibility, especially for lower-income students who can’t afford to work for free. Now the National Association of Colleges and Employers is ...

Long before Engineering sophomore Christopher Reynolds crossed the Diag on his first day of class last fall, the Pennsylvania native knew he would need to save money from his high school lifeguarding ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...