HIDDEN COST OF FREE LABOUR: INTERNS

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There is what we called affiliated this is the biggest market where people eat from i come to realize that even you, when you check or see alots of websites you can see a banner which does not seem to belong to the website but just there to attract you let me tell you a trick its an advertisement and the owner of the website is paid in order for the banner to retain its position  when someone click on it he only earn about 50% of what the person who as click on it is going to pay in the next website and for that how many people can click on the banner each day about 10,000 a day just tell me how much does that owner of the website own just as a part time daily besides his business.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                For that reason if want to earn the same go to http://www.allankibet.weebly.com or go to http://clickback.com and register for a lot of company at first you will not earn much because after creating you website you have to make people know it and it takes long for you to start earning.

Hidden cost of free labour: interns BY:DENISE CULLEN  From:The Australian  January 08, 2011 12:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print

SEEKING bright young stars to join leading company! Outstanding entry-level opportunity! Gain invaluable experience and skills!

Offering you loads of benefits with exclamation marks and a long to-do list instead of cash!

Unpaid internships used to offer a legitimate way for students to gain academic credit in lieu of a pay cheque.

But increasingly, as students, graduates and even middle-aged career-changers confront employer expectations that they will work for free to demonstrate their enthusiasm and commitment, concerns are mounting about the whiff of exploitation in the air.

"It's called an internship because that sounds a lot sexier than free labour," chief executive of the Sydney-based Centre for Volunteering Lynne Dalton says. It's not that Dalton has anything against volunteer work arrangements with not-for-profit organisations; the Centre for Volunteering is the peak body in NSW promoting and supporting volunteering and community participation, with a range of programs including volunteer referral, research and training.

Rather, it's private enterprise firms seeking volunteers, interns or otherwise unpaid labourers, breathlessly promoting their "outstanding opportunities" on university careers pages and other job sites that make her blood boil.

"Some organisations think that you're privileged to be working for them, but if they want you to work for no money, then that's just exploitation," she says.

"If I'm an intern working for nothing in a for-profit organisation, then that profit goes to the CEO, the shareholders and the employees, not the [other] people who did the work.

"This is in contrast to not-for-profit organisations [which] can only reinvest in the community, so vicariously [the volunteer] is benefiting."

Unpaid internships have traditionally been sold on what the intern will get out of the experience, intangibles such as industry contacts, new skills, hands-on experience and the prospect of being identified as an up-and-coming talent.

But plenty of people think work-for-free arrangements offer employers the better deal. Presented with ranks of keen, newly minted graduates willing to volunteer their time to secure a toehold on the career ladder, companies can cherry-pick the best and brightest, and without so much as having to dip their hands in their pockets.

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