{"id":137,"date":"2008-10-14T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-10-14T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T04:18:00","slug":"on-giving-new-graduates-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thestormypresent.com\/ocean\/2008\/10\/14\/on-giving-new-graduates-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"On Giving New Graduates Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.&#8221; &#8211; Abraham Lincoln<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been kicking it around in my head.\u00a0 There are programs for students in school (internships and the like) where they can get experience in a field they are working towards and maybe (just maybe) get hired where they are interning.\u00a0 Such things are common in the goverment, PR agency&#8217;s and even Law, MBA schools.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s be serious. Many of us arn&#8217;t always that sharp and we leave college, fresh with degree in hand &#8230; and are screwed.\u00a0 Turns out, after you leave college you are a &#8220;professional.&#8221; yet the catch 22, because you have no practicle exprience few want to hire you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What is needed, what this page advocates is the &#8220;newly graduated.&#8221; Paid internship program.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s the rub actually.\u00a0 PAID internship.\u00a0 While in collage you were free labor, paid for by govt or private loans.\u00a0 As a graduate you are really a salaried person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway the idea was to get a fund, a 501(c)3 not for profit who&#8217;s only purpose was to accept donations to pay the newly graduated so the companies wouldn&#8217;t have to.\u00a0 Several methods could be worked out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. Pay actual intership rates, in, while the Not for profit paid the Intern a base salary. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. to be eligable for greater than normal rates (upcomming) the intern would be evaluated by the employeer and must achive a steady &#8220;satisfoctory rating overall job and personality performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gathering funding may (well) would be difficult, but there are Gov&#8217;t grant programs as well as private funding (and being a 501(c)3 would be tax deductable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But i hesitate, for there is the hardest and most difficulty\u00a0 burden.\u00a0 Not new applicants. Grad schools gradute enough people every damn semester.\u00a0 The problem would be convincing companies to hire these young gradutaes or revamp there Intership programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What would be needed at a minimum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Development Associates. &#8211; To seek out standard internships and to convince companies to hire these recent gradutes.\u00a0 This would involve working also with universitiy graduate programs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>HR\/ Staffing professionals &#8211; To screen and match these young graduates and career changers with companies.<\/li>\n<li>Communication specalist. &#8211; To help promote this radical idea. To get people to contribute to it and to even add more exposure to the program.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to give it a try. 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