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Caution To Students and New Grads - Scam Alert - Do MT Work (Internship) For Free - These companies are at it again

Posted: Mar 10, 2011

There is still another scam company out there offering to help "train" students and graduates. They will kindly let you do their real work, the work clients are paying them for. This is unacceptable and unethical. It will not look good on your resume because potential employers do not look kindly on this. If, for example, they find out that you did your 'internship' with XYZ Company, you will probably never know the reason why your resume was rejected or tossed. Working for free for experience sounds like such a good idea if you went to a poor school and can't find a job, but it isn't a good idea, so don't be pressured into doing it. This is not the way to try to fix a poor MT education.

Working for experience - Anonymous

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Working for experience does not necessarily mean that a person went to a poor school. When I was in MT school doing an internship was a requirement to graduate and I was hired by the hospital where I interned. Many coders do internships as sometimes that is the only way to get a foot in the door. This is probably a different situation but don't assume that needing/wanting to intern means that a person's education was lacking.

Who are they? I don't want to waste time applying to them. nm - Noob

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I thought internships were unpaid - cr

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I thought the nature of internships was to gain experience by working a certain period of time without pay. Years ago (many), I was not paid for my MA internship, and most currently, my granddaughter is doing internships for free (not in this field) to gain experience before graduating from college.

I did a summer long internship while going to - sm

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college without pay while getting my Associate Degree in Medical Records Administration (giving my age away with that terminology). I worked in all departments of the medical record department, not for pay, but for a grade. If it is something associated with the school for your grades then it is fine. If it is just to work for a company doing their work for no other reason than experience on your part and a free MT on theirs, it is not right at all.

What an internship IS - grad student

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It is often an UNPAID gig where you do the "real" job (repeat for no money) for a finite period of time.

So all the FIRE!!! screaming is really just that.

Companies that use interns to do MT work must have a high number of QA people since in most internships, the intern is overseen, mentored, guided, and TAUGHT by a mentor :) Wonder if that happens?

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