[双语]无薪实习靠谱吗_新闻台

　　YOUNGSTERS enter the office of Inspiring Interns through what looks like a wardrobe door. The reference to C.S. Lewis’s “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” is deliberate: the company wants them to feel transported into a magical new world where they might actually find a job.

　　年轻人走进“实习生激励”公司的办公室必须穿过一个类似衣橱柜门的大门。这是该公司在刻意模仿C.S.刘易斯笔下的童话场景-----狮子、女巫和衣橱：他们希望实习生来到这个很可能带给他们工作机会的办公室，感觉上就像步入了一个魔幻的新世界。

　　With unemployment rife throughout the rich world, more and more young people are seeking internships. Many firms, nervous about the future, are reluctant to hire permanent staff until they have tested them. Intern-recruitment agencies are popping up to help. Inspiring Interns, a Londonfirm, boasts that it can provide competent interns within three days. It processes 300 applicants a day, and claims that 65% of the interns it has placed have been hired.

　　随着失业的魔咒在全世界的发达国家肆掠，越来越多的年轻人开始寻找实习机会。许多公司因为忧心未来前景，在没有完全检验实习生的能力之前并不愿意将他们转为长期的正式员工。实习生招募机构因此蜂拥而出。“实习生激励”这家伦敦公司就宣称，他们能在三天之内给实习生提供实习机会。公司一天收阅300份简历，声称65%他们推荐的实习生最后都能被招为正式员工。

　　Many intern candidates have no previous job experience and only a vague notion of what work involves. Inspiring Interns screens them with personality tests, coaches them on interview technique and urges them to make a video-clipcurriculum vitae. Many internships are unpaid; the firm charges employers ?500 ($779) a month for each intern plus 10% of the starting salary if an intern is hired permanently. Ben Rosen, who founded Inspiring Interns with?20, 000, says it grossed around ?1m last year.

　　许多寻找实习机会的年轻人之前并无工作经验，对自己将来要从事的工作也概念模糊。“实习生激励”公司全面包装这些年轻人：给他们进行性格测试，教授他们面试技巧，并敦促他们制作面试小视频。许多实习机会都是没有薪酬的，但是他们成为实习生后，需每月给公司缴纳500英镑(799美元），被正式聘用后还需支付10%的首次薪水。本.卢森用2万英镑创立了实习生激励公司。他透露，去年公司的毛利润就达到了100万英镑。

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