So I was asked to come in for an interview for an internship position. I have already graduated from college and I would be completely streching it financially to take on an unpaid internship. Would it be too bold to ask how many interns they eventually hire? I feel like this company may be the type that has 20 interns every semester and never hires any of them. Is this something employers mind speaking about?
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What I did
I just asked “how long have you been here?” and she said that she started as an intern the year before. I’ve never had a problem when I ask people about their history… I think they like to talk about it.
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Asking interviewers about their experience at the company, and how long ppl tend to stay usually gets them to open up and if interns tend to stay there or get jobs, I’ve often had them mention that too.
Not bold, just silly
I mean, there really isn’t any answer to that question that would be of any use to you. If there are 20 (or even 10 or 5 or 2) interns a semester, of COURSE most of them aren’t going to get hired. Most magazines only have a few EAs at a time, and unless all of them leave or get promoted at once, a magazine having one entry level job opening a year is a pretty normal estimate.
Also, honestly, asking that question will make you sound like kind of a dick. It assumes that you think you’re going to be the most incredible intern of all time and they’d actually want to hire you, which is a bad assumption for you to make for your future career. You haven’t even been offered the internship yet; you’re still courting them, not the other way around. That kind of thing is something to ask about when you’ve been there a few months and proven yourself to them. If you MUST ask (and I have a feeling you will) I would ask your interviewer in the context of making conversation, e.g. ask “Did you intern here before you were hired? What is your background?” but make is seem as though you’re asking only out of curiosity, and don’t push if they don’t give you the answer you want.
Even then, though, I wouldn’t really ask that. If you’re going to be so stretched financially that you can’t take the internship without a guaranteed job in a few months, don’t take the internship. If you learn anything from reading this board, you should learn that this industry has no guarantees.
I don't think it's silly at all.
I think as a post-grad intern, they pretty much assume that you are looking for a job. You don’t have classes to go back to when you’re done there - you’re basically out on the street. As such, for my first post-grad internship (I’m on my third now), I just asked if they ever hire their interns. That’s all. I’m sorry, but that is not “silly”…it’s an honest question, and one that I’m sure your interviewer expects given where you are in your career.
When I asked, the editor was perfectly honest and cool about it - he said they typically don’t, but that they were making some changes to the magazine, and that they probably would be hiring interns for new jobs in the near future. Was that a crock of shit? Yes…I know that now. But at least I asked, and I knew from his response that there were certainly no guarantees. Since then, I’ve asked that of all my interviewers, and not one of them have appeared surprised or offended at all.
I didn’t say it was silly
I didn’t say it was silly because you would surprise or offend anyone. I said it was silly because no one will ever get a useful answer to that question, and you shouldn’t waste time in an interview in that way. Magazines hire their interns, except when they don’t, or they don’t hire their interns, except when they do.
Your interviewer could never give you a good idea of your personal prospects there because your interviewer doesn’t know you and has no idea if he’d want to hire you, so he or she is basically guaranteed to hedge and tell you “maybe” or something equally noncommittal.
As you said, if you’re post-grad, of course you really want a job, not an internship, and of course they already know that, so there’s basically no point in bringing it up until you’re at a point where they might want to offer you a job instead of an internship. I just think it’s not a good use of time in an interview, that’s all.
I respectfully disagree.
I respectfully disagree.
I don’t think I would
I don’t think I would phrase it like that. Do you know what your duties will be up front? I would ask detailed questions about the position and try to segue into it. Is this for a magazine? When I was an intern, I could tell how many former interns got hired just by looking at the masthead (interns were listed in the masthead so I checked back issues). It may be a off-putting if you come off as someone who’ll only do the internship if the probability of you landing a full-time job is high. Truth is, budgets are getting slashed left and right and they may not be able to hire you simply because there is no money for new positions.