Amid the pandemic the entire education system has changed it’s way of teaching and started online classes which will help them to cope up in terms of their syllabus and examinations. There are many students who wanted to join internships as well but their plans got hampered due to the pandemic.
According to the research by Glassdoor, the career website, Now Half of all internship openings in the US have been cut since the pandemic outbreak, and 64 per cent of those in the UK. Hundreds of companies, including AirBnb, Fedex, Gap and Walt Disney Co., have scrapped their summer programs, according to an online database.
Companies use summer internships as a pipeline for recruiting graduates while young people benefit from exposure to real working life. They can serve as a source of income or a graduation requirement.
More than one in every six young workers globally have stopped working during the pandemic, the International Labor Organization said last month.
Some companies are making their internships virtual - mirroring the work-from-home trend. E-commerce giant Amazon is hiring more than 8,000 interns for its summer program, which it's turning into "a virtual model." Global consulting firm EY said more than half of its 15,000 internships this year will be in virtual formats