Debra Friedman, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Labor & Employment department, wrote an article for Business Woman about how to create an internship program. Hiring interns can provide companies a great pipeline for identifying and developing talent. Interns get benefits too — they gain knowledge and skills that will aid them in job searches. So why may companies be hesitant to use interns? Often it is because companies struggle to determine whether someone is really an unpaid intern or an employee who must be paid wages, or they do not know how to design and implement an internship program.
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