Internships / Give them the opportunity to do meaningful work

Every year several million students, career changers and other job seekers get internships in companies large and small.

Some of those employers — small ones in particular — won’t offer internships ever again.

“It’s just not worth it,” the owner of one small company in the service industry told me.

“I wanted to offer people the chance to learn, to expose them to our business and teach something,” the small-business owner said. “I hear about so many internships where you just do slug work like getting coffee. But I wanted to give them the opportunity to do meaningful work. I’ll never do it again.”

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