首页
登录
职称英语
Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxe
Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxe
游客
2023-11-15
35
管理
问题
Spring is here: flowers are in bloom, birdsong fills the air, and the inboxes of employers are filled with desperate pleas for summer internships. College students and graduates are well aware of the impact a plummy placement could have on their careers. With ever fewer entry-level jobs in many industries, internships have become a critical first step into employment. In America, three-quarters of students on a four-year university course will have toiled as an intern at least once before graduation. Up to half of these gimlet-eyed workers will have given their services free. Some may even have had to pay for the privilege of coming to work.
Unpaid internships seem to be an example of mutual utility: inexperienced youngsters learn something about a chosen field while employers get to farm out some menial work. The arrangement is consensual, and companies often use internships to test potential recruits. But the increasing popularity of these unpaid placements has caused some controversy lately. Nick Clegg, Britain’s deputy prime minister, recently launched a crusade to ban them, arguing that they favor the wealthy and privileged. Others complain that uncompensated internships insult labor standards, exploit inexperienced workers and surely depress wages for everyone else. In America, they tend to be illegal at for-profit companies, according to guidelines set out in 1947. But the Department of Labor barely enforces such rules, in part because interns are often too afraid to file complaints.
Organizations in America save $2 billion a year by not paying interns a minimum wage, writes Ross Perlin in "Intern Nation" , a new book about the "highly competitive race to the bottom of the corporate ladder". Perhaps one-third of all internships at for-profit companies are unpaid, and interns now often fill roles once held by full-time employees. "Young people and their parents are subsidizing labor for Fortune 500 companies," Mr. Perlin comments.
To avoid legal complications, companies often encourage students to work in exchange for academic credits from their college. But such credits can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Some colleges give up their fees or earn them by offering guidance and oversight. For many institutions, however, they are an easy source of revenue, more beneficial to themselves than their students.
Calls for new labor laws that reflect the growing prominence of internships have got nowhere. Instead, interns will have to look out for each other, for example by rating their experiences on websites such as InternshipRatings and Internocracy. At any rate, students may be buoyed by a rare bit of good news from the National Association of Colleges and Employers: employers intend to hire 19% more graduates this year than last. This should spare some from the drudgery of working without pay. [br] The word "plummy" (Paragraph One) probably means
选项
A、passable.
B、desirable.
C、vacant.
D、specific.
答案
B
解析
语义题。定位至首段第二句,由句中的“impact…on their careers”可以判断,一个良好的实习经历对学生的就业意义重大,desirable意为“称心的,好的”,符合本句语境。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3190118.html
相关试题推荐
Thereisasayingthatriversneeda______.A、springB、summerC、autumnD、winterA
TheChineseSpringFestivalhasalwaysbeenahappytimefor______.A、usChinese
Serialparentsmaythinkthateachnewsiblingofferstheiroffspringthegi
Serialparentsmaythinkthateachnewsiblingofferstheiroffspringthegi
Serialparentsmaythinkthateachnewsiblingofferstheiroffspringthegi
Serialparentsmaythinkthateachnewsiblingofferstheiroffspringthegi
Alltoo______itwastimetogobacktoschoolaftertheSpringFestival.A、quick
Springishere:flowersareinbloom,birdsongfillstheair,andtheinboxe
TheSpringFestivalisatraditionalChinesefestival.Oneofitsespecially
WhatisthetotalnumberofstudentsatDeepSpringCollege?[br][originaltext
随机试题
Onewaytodeterminewhichplanetsoutsidethesolarsystemmightharborlif
TheCambridgeUnionSociety,commonly【C1】______(refer)tosimplyastheCam
HighlightingIsa
标准状况时,560mL乙烯与甲烷的混合气体通过溴水,溴水质量增加0.28g。计
队列研究的重要缺点是A.容易发生失访偏倚 B.在研究进程中研究对象可能改变暴露
在混凝土抗渗试验中,某组试件各块表面出现渗水现象时的最大压力如下表。试件编号|1
对福利进行监控要注意()。 A.关注相关的法律法规的变化 B.确保企
甲为了能在自己的房子里欣赏远处的风景。便与相邻的乙书面约定:乙不能在自己的土地上
根据我国《反不正当竞争法》的规定,下列行为属于不正当竞争行为中的混淆行为的是(
(2019年真题)以经济资本为基础计算的资本充足率,是监管当局限制银行过度承担风
最新回复
(
0
)