Young workers are particularly vulnerable in the workplace because they tend to do short-term work, often lack training and safety education, and may see injury as just “part of the job.”
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Although jobs are being cut due to COVID-19-related business closures, there are still clever ways to secure meaningful work experience this summer, an internship specialist says.
Success in finding an internship is tied to factors that range from prior experience to local unemployment rates, new research has found.
The number of young people who work traditional summer jobs has declined significantly in recent decades. A scholar who focuses on generational differences in the workforce explains why.
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Professor of the Practice and Graduate Program Director, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Economics, University of St Andrews
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Lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Hiatt Career Center, Brandeis University
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Professor in Child and Youth Studies, Brock University
