What’s changed about internships since you were an intern?

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We worked for free and got little actual experience. We were volunteer grunts—there to serve the FTEs. Now the senior managers bend over backwards to make sure interns have a great experience, and they get to work on the coolest projects instead of the staff members. They get to turn down real work so they can focus on the “intern projects”. Oh yes, and they are paid to work on said awesome pro bono projects. A lot has changed.

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Everything! Long time ago I made $500 for the summer playing with Photoshop, hole punching presentations into binders, ha. My current intern could run our place so we’re glad she’s going back to school.

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