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“#Internships get canceled, turned virtual because of pandemic<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n LONDON \u2014 Yadeen Rashid was flying high in February. He\u2019d just earned stellar grades in his latest semester at Virginia Tech University, where he\u2019s in his third year double majoring in economics and political science<\/a>. And he\u2019d just landed a summer internship at a data analysis company.<\/p>\n

Then the pandemic hit, triggering lockdown restrictions and pushing the U.S. economy into recession. Many companies canceled their internships programs and rescinded job offers \u2013 including NTT Data, where Rashid was set to intern.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really upset, not just because finding an internship is hard, but because I actually was very excited to work with them very specifically,\u201d said Rashid, 21. He said he bears no ill-will to the company and is looking for other internship opportunities. \u201cBut, you know, as time goes on, it gets a little less optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rashid\u2019s experience shows how the global coronavirus crisis, which has already thrown much of the business world into turmoil, is also disrupting summer internships, an important stepping stone to working life for many university students and recent graduates.<\/p>\n

Half of all internship openings in the U.S. have been cut since the pandemic outbreak, and 64% of those in the U.K., according to research by Glassdoor, the career website. Hundreds of companies, including Airbnb, FedEx, Gap and Walt Disney Co., have scrapp<\/a>ed their summer programs, according to an online database.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

More than one in every six young workers globally have stopped working during the pandemic, the International Labor Organization said last month. The U.N. labor agency added that the pandemic\u2019s long-term fallout could lead to a \u201clockdown generation\u201d scarred throughout their working lives.<\/p>\n

Some companies are making their internships virtual \u2014 mirroring the work-from-home trend that\u2019s swept office life during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

E-commerce giant Amazon is hiring more than 8,000 interns for its summer program, which it\u2019s turning into \u201ca virtual model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Global consulting firm EY said more than half of its 15,000 internships this year will be in virtual formats. Interns will be assigned a \u201cpeer counselor,\u201d someone who joined the company in the past two years, as well as a more senior \u201creporting counselor\u201d who will both regularly check in on them, said Trent Henry, EY\u2019s global-vice chair of talent.<\/p>\n

At the Associated Press, some internships will either likely be done remotely, some deferred until next year and others have been canceled.<\/p>\n

One benefit of a traditional internship \u2014 networking \u2014 is harder to do virtually but companies are trying to help. Amazon is providing mentoring and weekly \u201cfireside\u201d chats via remote video conferencing.<\/p>\n

U.S. air conditioner maker Lennox\u2019s 54 summer interns can join lunchtime talks with senior executives by video conference. The company still wants to treat them to a good lunch so it\u2019s considering sending them gift cards to buy food, said recruiter Lexie Williams.<\/p>\n

Those who have done virtual internships say it\u2019s a way to learn remote working skills that are more important now that COVID-19 has changed how people work.<\/p>\n

Recent graduate Sahar Shabani, 22, did a three-month remote internship with a development charity based in Thailand from her parents\u2019 home in South London.<\/p>\n

Shabani applied in February through Queen Mary University of London, where she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in politics and international relations. She checked in by phone every day with her supervisor, who assigned her to research and write reports about topics like corporate social<\/a> responsibility and then give video presentations on them using Zoom.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether it was in person or not, you still gained those skills or valuable experience,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a new way of experiencing work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catarina Silva, 22, is doing a part-time virtual internship with an Asia-based social enterprise through Aston University in Birmingham, England, as part of her master\u2019s degree. Silva, who returned to her parents\u2019 home in Porto, Portugal, spends her mornings working on her dissertation and afternoons building a donor database and working on strategy for the foundation.<\/p>\n

She says she\u2019s getting used to the unstructured nature of working from home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means, for example, night owls could work after midnight, she said. \u201cThere are a lot of people in my generation that like that flexibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silva, who has already lined up a job after graduation with the consultancy Accenture, said she\u2019d like to work in an office, \u201cbut at the same time, you will always have to know how to work remotely.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has done two previous in-person summer internships, at a bank and a fashion chain in Portugal, and acknowledges that interning remotely makes it harder to network.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good when you go to the office and meet people and have lunch with them, so you build human connections,\u201d Silva said. \u201cWith a virtual internship that\u2019s more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Universities with work placement or study abroad programs have scrambled to replace them with remote options, said Edward Holroyd-Pearce, president of Virtual Internships, a British firm that helped arrange Silva\u2019s and Shabani\u2019s programs and specializes in Asia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a huge demand because of coronavirus,\u201d said Pearce. The number of students his company has placed has jumped 10-tenfold this year, with inquiries coming from the U.S., Britain, Australia, the Middle East and many other countries, he said.<\/p>\n

Still, the remote option doesn\u2019t appeal to everyone.<\/p>\n

Tobias Bidstrup, a third-year international business student at Copenhagen Business School, was offered an internship at Procter & Gamble\u2019s London offices this summer. But after the pandemic hit Europe, the company offered to let interns to do it virtually or defer it for a year. Bidstrup, 21, chose to wait.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting at a new company, doing the internship and you\u2019re meeting people and being introduced to new tasks and also getting to know how the culture is at a company \u2014 I think that\u2019s really difficult to do virtually compared to doing it in person at the office,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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