Craig’s list for New York Internships

A lot of college students use craig’s list for finding New York internships.  We frequently get asked by students whether or not you can get legitimate work from craig’s list.  Yes, legitimate New York internships are on craig’s list.  There are also a lot of scams and fake internship work.  There are much better ways to find internships, especially New York internships, but there is no harm in just checking out craig’s list to see what’s there.

So there are some legitimate internships on craig’s list.  But the companies that list them do so because they don’t know where else to find interns.  And it’s cheap.  Put yourself in the shoes of a company advertising a New York internship on craig’s list.  It only costs $25 and takes five minutes (at the most) to post a job.  Odds are, they won’t be expecting too much out of an intern.  The position is likely a cog job (job that requires little intellectual capability and many mindless tasks).

Today, I was checking out some New York internships on craig’s list as research for this article.  And behold, I stumbled upon this gem of an internship request.  This was the tite:

MOST CHILL INTERNSHIP IN NYC:  music/film/art/internet/chilling (Brooklyn).

It gets better.  This is an actual excerpt from the posting.

“We want you to be the best global intern Brooklyn has ever chilled with.  We don’t want you to just get coffee, we want a chiller to get coffee with us.”

Back to the point.  The intern would basically serve these guys as a personal assistant for no compensation, besides the college credit that was promised.

You can find New York internships on craig’s list but it shouldn’t be your first option.  If you are looking for New York internships, be able to spot a scam when you see one.

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For more internship information, go to internship cover letter, internship resume, and intern jobs. For specific resources, go to investment banking internships or marketing internships.

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