Interns wanted
The Business Roundtable is seeking one or two interns for the next year. If you have a passion for public policy issues, then the BRT can be a great place to work – they produce a staggering amount of research on various issues, and also bring over to NZ some world class speakers. The requirements are:
Applications should demonstrate a genuine interest in public policy, strong research and writing talents, excellent communication skills, strong computing skills and willingness to pay careful attention to detail. We are looking for fun people who are motivated, well organised and willing to work hard.
Details on how to apply are on the linked page.
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March 25th, 2008 at 9:39 am
‘We are looking for fun people who are motivated, well organised and willing to work hard.’ And, I assume, work for free.
This intern thing seems strange (and I wonder how legal it is), you work, we don’t pay you.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Rocket Boy:
Clearly you’re too lazy to read the referenced link:
March 25th, 2008 at 9:57 am
I wonder if it will include the baby eating clauses in their employment contract this time, that and the pledge to exploit as many Kiwis as possible
Ahhh the left really do like making these guys look bad.
I bet it would be brilliant working for these people. At least it will piss the lefties off, that itself would be enough for me and I’d do it for free!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:58 am
OK Peak Oil Conspiracy, maybe there is some small payment for the interns, however the use of interns in sectors like the advertising industry is widespread and many of these positions are low pay/no pay.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I agree clintheine, “I’d do it for free”just to get up the snotty snouts of the socialist suckhole pricks, who drain the public purse with relentless ease.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Wanted: Two interns with the external look of Scarlett Johansen, but with the dedicated tenacity to go the extra mile like Monica Lewinsky.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Just blog when the EPMU are looking for an intern. Thanks David A.K.A – Job Consultant.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I am at a loss why so many left wing commentators seem to think the business roundtable is bad! Surely the net goal for an organisation such as this is a strong economy to benefit all who wish to take advantage of it. A productive business sector leads to greater economic growth, sustanable increases in productivity and wages, and more jobs. No need for Working for Families to artificially stimulate economic growth which leads to inflation pressure and high interest rates.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Just blog when the EPMU are looking for an intern. Thanks David A.K.A – Job Consultant.
So you want to suck more from hard working Kiwi’s? Gee James, why dont you get out and work in the real world amoungst those you wish to represent one day, you will probably get a better perspective from that than getting Andrew Little his morning coffee…..
March 25th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I have two big gripes with the Business Round Table:
1. They succeeded in stuffing National up over fire service reform in the late 1990′s – IMO they did not have a clue how to bring about effective reform in a highly unionised organisation where the individual employees can garner much public support.
2. They issue all these pretty papers about the electricity industry should be privatised and how it is necessary for there to be further reforms. IMO the only way their ideas will work is by taking investors in the industry for a ride by setting the scene for destructive cut-throat competition (which someone likened to two scorpions in a jar). However when there is a bit of a shortage and the spot prices go through the roof (precisely what is supposed to happen), captains of industry (who are the BRT members) go screaming off to the Government to ‘do something’. The Labour government has of course obliged.
Given this, I just cannot take the BRT seriously. As far as I am concerned, they need to keep their heads down until the election lest they lose National votes.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I’ve used interns (in a strictly non-Clintonian sense) on community radio stations and newspapers in the past. And I got my first break in radio commuting in after school to do the evening and weekend news on Radio Windy for the grand remuneration of $89 a week, which covered my bus and train fares. It’s a great for businesses who can’t afford to pay semi-productive staff full wages but who are committed to providing some training, and likewise a good way for wannabes to get real world experience.
Of course it shouldn’t be used to avoid hiring someone and paying them a proper wage to do a full time job, but I doubt it could be – any “intern” who saw themselves doing as much work as the salaried person in the next office, and not receiving the guidance and training they were promised, would soon quit.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Rocket Boy
Regardless of the pay, I imagine a year in that “internship” where more will be learned than an elongated Masters in F’All and the young man or woman will be able to print their own starting salary on a piece of paper in the private sector. Rather like the advertising internships.
James, the Union internship hopeful will no doubt aspire to a life time of sucking off the public tit and the Grand prize, a candidacy within the Labour Party.
Woopy.
That’s worth getting all that student loan for.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Cool – a chance to get involved in the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!
March 25th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
1) I work with genuine hard working kiwis at Wairarapa Hospital
2) an internship to widen my horizons to serve hard working kiwis
March 26th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Sleepy, you’re 16. Tell me in 25 words or less why the EMPU is better than the BRT.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:05 am
ClintHeine:
24 words – does that win the intern prize?
March 26th, 2008 at 6:01 am
James
Seriously a month working for Roger Kerr you’d never dream of going left again. Of course you’d never actually win the internship because you’re an underqualified leftist idiot but if I was in charge I would give you the internship just for the challenge of turning you. No one who has ever worked for me has ever left believing in Unions.