SourceThatJob strikes a chord over media internship exploitation

My recent post about our decision to no longer accept adverts for unpaid internship positions on media job board SourceThatJob triggered a wave of support.

I had more comments on that one post than any other on this blog and the vast majority were supportive of our attempts attempts to raise awareness of this issue.

I've recorded a podcast explaining how I became aware of media internship exploitation and our subsequent decision to reject advertising for unpaid positions.

Daryl's internship exploitation podcast

If the only people who can get decent work experience are those who can afford to work for free for extended periods then media inevitably becomes elitist. I firmly believe the media should represent society in its widest sense, not just the better-off.

Comments

[REG CROWDER]

Please permit me to join in the applause for what you have done. This is a GOOD THING that you have done.

My internship days were in the United States and I have always considered the U.S. most predatory and exploitive labor market in the industrialized world. And yet, back there I never saw or even heard about anything as depraved as the unpaid media internships in the U.K.

Well done!

REG CROWDER

http://www.linkedin.com/in/regcrowder

[Mark watson]

That is so great to hear Daryl - if only other job sites were as straightforwardly honest!