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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeff Selingo has written extensively about internships being THE most important factor in post-graduation employment. Here is one of the CEO’s he interviewed on the topic of lifeguarding…

“You can’t spend your first couple of summers in college lifeguarding or working as a camp counselor anymore if you have a specific job in mind after graduation,” said Matt Sigelman, the CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, the company that provides real-time labor market data and has studied internship postings. “Those typical summer jobs are not going to position you for work after graduation.”[/quote]

That single anecdote you cherrypicked doesn't mean that lifeguarding is bad if your other options are not to have a paying job at all.  Jeff Selingo writes about the importance of real world work experience, regardless of the field.

Not everyone can find a paying internship in their field.  Not in this economy. If OP is so "concerned" she can offer to pay for her niece's expenses so that she can take an unpaid internship like rich kids do.[/quote]

It’s not cherry picked, you just don’t like what the employment data show. The full article is also posted above, if you are interested in learning more (instead of attacking the messenger). And from the sound of it, OP’s niece isn’t lifeguarding as a default (after unsuccessful attempts in finding an internship). It was a choice that will put her at a competitive disadvantage after graduation.[/quote]

Yes, it is a cherry picked anecdote, because you haven't shown actual data that shows that having a paid job such as a lifeguard will put the OP's niece at a disadvantage relative to having an "internship" (whatever that may mean, could be paid, unpaid, lifechanging or a waste of time) with respect to being gainfully employed upon graduation.

Feel free to share that data if you have it.[/quote]

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