College students’ internship in enterprises before graduation, especially in famous enterprises, is not only conducive to improving their own ability, but also very helpful for finding jobs in the future. However, this is actually used as a channel for making money by intermediaries. Some intermediaries claim that they can recommend college students to practice in famous enterprises with the help of huge enterprise resources and workplace tutor resources, and clearly mark the internship opportunities, saying that "they can be pushed internally to ensure that they can go in for internships" and "no fees are charged if they are unsuccessful". The "Workers Daily" reporter noted that the fees charged by intermediaries ranged from thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan. Is this internship reliable?
The internship has been guaranteed, and the maximum need is more than 50,000 yuan.
"Students who want to go to top investment banks, big four accounting firms, well-known consulting companies and other institutions for winter internship can contact me and be guaranteed. The internship time is about three months, which requires a certain fee. " Just as some senior graduates were running around looking for internship opportunities in winter vacation, some intermediaries began to promote internship positions in employment forums of major universities.
In the list of "target offer (employment notice) and fees", the agency clearly classified different types of enterprises in different industries. Take investment banks and consulting companies with high academic qualifications and high gold content as an example. The internship offer of the most expensive foreign investment bank is priced at 52,800 yuan, while the internship offer of foreign consulting companies is priced at 46,800 yuan. In this project list, the cheapest ones are domestic fast-moving consumer goods and Internet companies, and the price tag ranges from 7800 yuan to 15000 yuan.
The reporter consulted an intermediary agency in Guangzhou as a job seeker and found that the intermediary agency has different packages to choose from according to the different needs of job seekers. For example, if the goal is to guarantee an offer for the internship position, there will be a job-seeking consultant to teach career planning, resume revision, interview counseling and three financial practice courses, and get the internship offer within two months. If it is unsuccessful, most of the fees will be refunded at a price of 5,999 yuan/person; For high-end positions with hukou needs such as Beijing and Shanghai, they are priced one-on-one separately, and they can’t get targeted positions, and all of them are refunded.
9.9 yuan can join the winter vacation internship promotion group.
In addition to using employment forums, the reporter found that many intermediaries also operate WeChat official account for publicity. There is a winter vacation internship push group in the menu below WeChat official account. There are generally two ways to join the push group: one is to forward the WeChat of the intermediary company to the circle of friends or the WeChat group of college students with more than 100 people to help promote it; Second, you can pay for 9.9 yuan’s backward group by scanning the code.
After the reporter entered the South China Group of an intermediary agency, he found that there were nearly 500 members in the group. Every day, the intermediary consultant sends the internship information to the group in the form of pictures, but the delivery mailbox left is not the enterprise mailbox, but the intermediary company’s mailbox is used as a transit point, and then the intermediary company throws it into the enterprise mailbox.
The intermediary consultant said that this kind of extrapolation method does not need to screen resumes, and it is possible to go directly to the interview. However, when some students told the consultant that they didn’t wait for the interview notice, the consultant simply responded "wait".
And some "more secure" internships are pushed in by paying. Students scan the QR code to fill in the membership application form. In addition to the name, school, grade, major and basic information, the registration form should also fill in information such as graduation plan, expected internship start time, internship days, target industry, expected position, job target city, career confusion, reasons for wanting to participate in internship, academic background, scholarship experience, award-winning experience, community experience and internship experience.
The intermediary consultant explained that this kind of referral opportunity belongs to his own company, which can guarantee the entry, but it needs to pay to lock the quota, and if the interview fails, it will be refunded in full, and the recommendation fee is about one or two months’ internship salary.
Is the practice of intermediaries legal?
So, is this practice of intermediaries legal? People in the legal profession pointed out that from a legal point of view, it is not illegal for intermediaries to provide internship opportunities to college graduates at a clearly marked price. However, if intermediaries engage in false propaganda and defraud college graduates, they will infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of college graduates and are suspected of breaking the law.
"I think this kind of service is acceptable with a clear price tag." Liu Tongxue, a senior student who is looking for a job, told the reporter that she calculated an account for the reporter: "The relationship between supply and demand of graduates and recruitment positions in our line is very unbalanced. Take our school as an example. Among the 3,000 to 4,000 people who graduate every year, there are at least 800 people who want to enter the financial industry. How can there be so many internship positions for brokers? " Some students also said that they would choose to pay for an internship opportunity with high gold content because they want to enrich their resumes abroad.
In this regard, a career consultant told reporters that the authenticity and effectiveness of the "paid internal push" service mode mentioned by some intermediaries have yet to be verified. There is no standard for the effect and satisfaction of post-service, and once a dispute occurs, it is difficult to protect the rights and interests of job seekers.
He believes that college students should still obtain the job information of their favorite enterprises through campus recommendation, campus job fairs or large recruitment websites. At the same time, college students should consciously improve their comprehensive strength to meet the requirements of enterprises, instead of spending money to take "shortcuts".
Our reporter Ye Xiaozhong Intern Liu Chubing Lin Guanfeng