@Going Concern “Love Me, Love Me… Say That You Love Me: Critiquing The Positive Intern Hiring Trend”
By Francine • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Writing for OthersMy new post is up @Going Concern
“…There’s nothing wrong with hiring more of your interns for full time positions. It does close off opportunities for graduates to switch firms – get hired full time for a firm you didn’t intern for – and for those who don’t intern to ever be hired, especially by the Big 4. But, hiring more interns instead has big pitfalls, for both the employee and the firm. Interns have a higher probability of a full time job, but KPMG for example, hired hundreds of fewer new graduates for full time work and cut hundreds already on the rolls in all practices, nationwide in the last eighteen months…”
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Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) has more than twenty-five years of experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad. Look for my column, 