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Newshound
20-02-2013, 11:37 AM
You’re approached by an ambitious student, or fresh faced graduate, bemoaning the tight labour market. It’s impossible, they proclaim, to secure a role without some experience. And so they beg and plead for an unpaid internship or work experience. Initially you resist, explaining you don’t have any available jobs. But they persist, you relent, and secretly you’re filled with a warm glow for being so magnanimous and helping to launch this person’s career.

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