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Career Tip of the Week!

Nicki GilmourThis Week’s Tip Is…

Enjoy the journey, but know the destination.

Like Steven Covey’s advice of “begin with the end in mind”, it is good to review how your current job is a pathway to gathering the skills and relationships needed to take you to your next job.

Welcome to Career Tip of the Week. In this column we aim to provide you with a useful snippet of advice to carry with you all week as you navigate the day to day path in your career.

By Nicki Gilmour, Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist

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Ask-A-Recruiter: Should You Ever Work For Free?

jobsearchContributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart

If I am really interested in working for a company, is it a good tactic to offer to do a project or a trial basis for free?

I have been seeing more press coverage about “adult internships” lately. These refer to experienced professionals who take on a short-term project for little or no pay. Sometimes, these adult internships are for career changers to break into a new target sector, but sometimes experienced, unemployed professionals use internships to get a foot in the door at a new company in their same sector.

I’ve read about adult internships but I haven’t seen widespread practice of them, so I suspect (but don’t have data to prove) that they are not as prevalent as the press coverage warrants. So I don’t recommend targeting these adult internships or offering free work to employers, whether projects or days on the job. However, savvy, proactive jobseekers absolutely work for free, just not for specific employers.

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