We’re looking to amp the site up with some additional content and are seeking your expert input on topics that affect women everywhere these days, from laughable tampon commercials to heated courtroom battles over same-sex civil rights.
Zelda Lily is currently hiring TWO UNPAID INTERNS. Both positions are part-time and are responsible for posting 4-5 pieces a week to the site. Both male and female writers are encouraged to apply.
To apply, send an email to sarah@zeldalily.com with “ZL Intern Application” in the subject line. Please include a cover letter, links to your original blog (if you don’t have one, now would be a good time to start!), and 3-4 writing samples if you don’t currently run a blog of your own.
If you think you’d be a good contributor to Zelda Lily and you’d like to get experience writing for a larger audience, please consider applying for the available positions and check us out over there while you’re at it.
Again, please send your applications to sarah@zeldalily.com by no later than Tuesday, June 1st at 11:59 PM ET.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
I know there’s crisis evrywhere blablabla
but shouldn’t internships be paid something??
just saying!
Obama no longer allows unpaid internships unless your company meets the 6 criteria, which I seriously doubt it does. Watch yourselves on this!!
Interns usually aren’t paid.
They do it for experience. That’s why they’re called “interns” and not “employees”.
Shannon-you’re quite wrong. Check dol.gov
@ Pricilla your post wasn’t up when I wrote mine, so it wasn’t directed at you, it was directed at the original poster. My mistake for not clicking reply.
In light of that, I’m not sure, exactly, what you’d like for me to check .
That’s just the department of labor website…if you have a link to the actual post with the 6 criteria, that would probably be more helpful to them.
http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
Not that I wouldn’t love to be paid for my work at ZL, but …
1. The internship, even though it includes actual operation of the facilities of the employer, is similar to training which would be given in an educational environment; (I’m receiving tremendous training)
2. The internship experience is for the benefit of the intern; (since I want to pursue a writing career, this experience is invaluable)
3. The intern does not displace regular employees, but works under close supervision of existing staff; (I’m not working in place of a regular employee and am closely supervised by existing staff)
4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded; (If I screw up on facts or insulting somebody inappropriately or accidently delete completed posts or whatever, the operations would most certainly be impeded)
5. The intern is not necessarily entitled to a job at the conclusion of the internship; and (Nope, not entitled to a job … but it would be nice ;-))
6. The employer and the intern understand that the intern is not entitled to wages for the time spent in the internship. (I agreed to what I am currently doing … and am happy to do it for the experience and the passion I have for the site and more importantly the subject matter).
I hope that clarifies a bit …
It clarifies that you knew what you were getting into and it’s a consensual situation but it is still an illegal practice—#4 is still broken. Yes, you could screw up and that would suck for ZL, but any paid employee could do that as well. What you did not refute were “the immediate advantages they derive from your work.” I’d say published content qualifies here.
Not attacking you personally or people who take the internship–times are rough, I know, and people are taking unpaid internships to just keep building experience in their fields as MANY places are offering internships-that-should-be-jobs–but it’s still an illegal policy and deserves to be pointed out as such.
“The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern”
It’s entirely possible that the company is not deriving any benefits whatsoever from my internship. It’s a very subjective thing … you could argue that it is less successful because of me if my writing isn’t well-received, for example, or that it might be more successful since my internship began but I have nothing to do with it, that it’s just that more people are interested in the site itself.
I think this sole point is just way too subjective to be arguable.
So, I hear you are hiring over at the hairy-legged girl site.
Hey, my legs are very smooth :-)
We are! … But I wax. :)