Internships – dos and donts for employers

Gordon Brown announced a Graduate Guarantee scheme in autumn 2009 in an attempt in the economic meltdown to get the thousands of newly qualified and unemployed graduates some form of meaningful employment and work experience.

Graduates who have been unemployed for 6 months have access through the Jobcentre, and useful websites such as Directgov and Graduate Talent Pool to apply for internships with employers.

A number of our clients do not have an internship scheme and are unsure of the legal ramifications of employing graduates in this way.  They have a number of questions around

• the business benefits of running a good internship scheme
• whether or not internships should always be paid positions
• how interns should be recruited
• employment contracts.

The CIPD has recently published a comprehensive guideline with practical suggestions on how to tackle these issues.

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For more information on employment related government funding, please contact Recrion, People and Career Management Specialist who are actively facilitating Response to Redundancy schemes in the East of England.

Visit www.recrion.co.uk/free or call 01780 484910.