free unpaid internships for work

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/career-advice/career-tips/first-things-first-getting-a-foot-in-the-door/article2378195/


Andrea Alexis-James did a four-month unpaid internship at a media service company to meet requirements for her degree in creative advertising from Toronto’s Seneca College.

The job involved a lot of repetitive tasks, “which is what I was told would be expected of me at an entry level,” she recalled. “But I got a lot of benefit because it gave me practical experience, which I thought would lead to a full-time paying job.”
Things didn’t work out that smoothly. At the end of her internship in 2009, the company was downsizing, not hiring.

After several months of fruitless job hunting, she found another media company that would take her on as an unpaid, part-time intern in sales.
Ms. Alexis-James’s experiences aren’t unusual for newcomers to the labour force. Doing multiple, frequently unpaid internships, has become an increasingly common rite of passage for recent graduates trying to break into a career.

Continued economic uncertainty has forced nearly three-quarters of young people moving into the work force to make compromises, including accepting unpaid internships, to get work

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D - a bud of mine tried to get into advertising a decade or so back.
Sadly, Melrose Place was on TV. Every boy, girl and their dog wanted to be in advertising. He did not have the luxury to work for free.

TV, BTW, is a lousy basis to pick a career.
You don't get to wear leather hot pants in forensics, either.