Even unpaid internships can pay off. Is your company taking advantage of this opportunity?

Thomas Kemeny applied for an unpaid summer internship at a top-rated ad agency in Florida after graduating Columbia College in 2005.

The aspiring copywriter, now the real deal at San Francisco’s Goodby Silverstein & Partners, was thrilled then to work for free.

"There’s a little bit of a psychological twist going where they [imply], ‘We’re so good we don’t have to pay,’ " he says. "You think, if the law of supply and demand works and they can pay me nothing, how many people must want this job?"

Barbara Rose

Full Story: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mon-internships-rose-space-apr21,0,5190380.column

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