Would you like fries with that, sir?

It means internship.

Canada does this too, sadly.

Yup, they caught up to southern Europe finally.

The southern tip of the dark continent does this as well. You need a four year BSc degree with 2-5 years experience, or a Masters degree with no experience. Explain the sense in that...

You mean well done everywhere.

UK does this as well

They expect you to have experience at an internship.

Yeah .. It's like did the egg come first or the hen??

*Chicken

In order to get a job you need experience but to get experience you need a job... Sadly very few employers are willing to give new workers a chance now days.

Where I live, you're more likely to get a job if your family has connections with the employer.

@ #5. the T-rex came first :)

It's an employers market.

@11 a hen is a female chicken.

#44- true, but the original saying says chicken, not hen.

incorrect, it was the egg. offspring changes, over time. the non-chickens reproduced and the slight change in DNA made it a chicken

an internship is 21st century slavery. Who decided it's a privilege to WORK for a corporation.. for free.. while making them money

I did an internship class in high school. Got to intern at H&R Block. 5 years later, still no job.

But you do get otj experience, and contacts and connections. OP should have been doing an internship while going to school so that when he/she finished, there'd be job opportunities

Many internships are paid. I'm looking for an internship and I've saw many paid ones. But the paid internships are usually big name companies. The smaller companies or the local companies are usually the unpaid internships.

I was going to say internship, it's where you get your 2-5 years experience. Most people will have their internships done while in school still so its easier for them when they have their degree and looking for work. A company will look for entry level positions, and only want to hire those who did the time with interning. Hence the experience required.

I don't understand why #31 was thumbed down. Most internships these days ARE paid. In fact, my school encourages students not to take the internship if it's not. And not only are they paid, many are paid well, like $20 an hour.

It really depends what field you're in. In publishing, I only found one paid internship while I was in school, in NYC, for $7.25 and hour. Everything else was unpaid. Since I got no familial support, my options were to put myself even further into debt so I could give an internship 2-3 eight hour days a week (no weekends!), or not do an internship and work 20 hours a week to pay for school and my apartment. Sometimes doing an internship just isn't a possibility, which is why it's really frustrating when there doesn't seem to be a way into your field outside of an internship.

ive seen internships that paid between like $12-20. Not exactly slave wages. Granted, this is in the petroleum engineering field.

Best thing to do, most places require some experience like an internship beforehand. This is required for a lot of places now, they want someone that isn't fresh and just getting used to working for a corporation. I had this problem when I used to do work in web design and animation. Some work experience is a must.

Yeah, because an unpaid (or underpaid) internship will really pay the bills. Douche.

Oh yes, because staring one's own business is so easy.

That episode of 'That 70s Show' where Midge is talking about being a boss because she doesn't want to work? Anyone at all?

Shut up flappybird no one likes you

Exactly. It means "there are tens of thousands of people unemployed with your skill set" Why scrape the bottom of the trainee barrel when you can get a good, experienced, desperate worker for the same pay rate?

When I was at university and looking for jobs in the field I was studying the situation was such: companies wouldn't hire you because you are a student, these same companies also wouldn't hire you for jobs they list as "perfect for graduated" or even as "seeking recent graduate for <role>" because you lacked commercial experience when you finally graduate. Many of them had requirements like 2-3 years commercial experience or certifications suited for a senior position (10+ years experience). There was no winning. 10 years later and I still see the same rubbish; no one wants to train people anymore - this forces people to either lie or bend the truth to get a job.

The term entry level is suited more to the likes of your position in the company(which you just entered), not the job.

Graduating without any experience in your field is the same as nothing at all these days. Loyalty pays more than schooling and companies would rather promote and train from within than take a chance on a grad who had never worked a day in their life. For example, my payroll manager was my janitor ten years ago. Paid for her night classes and got a loyal employee in senior management.

Jobs at the bottom of the ladder shouldn't be expecting people to have years of experience already, it goes against the concept of entry, if they want people with years of experience it would be better practice to advertise as a junior role.