Investigation on the paid internship with sky-high price： the authenticity of the internship certificate with a price of over 20,000 yuan is in doubt.

　　● More and more college students want to work in internship positions with high technology content or which can really improve their professional ability, but good internship positions are scarce, which leads some college graduates to spend a lot of money to obtain them. This phenomenon gives criminals an opportunity.

　　● Some intermediaries, company tutors, and e-commerce operating platforms carry out illegal acts of collecting money under the banner of internship promotion. Because such incidents are relatively secret, it is difficult to obtain evidence, and once they are infringed, the probability of successful rights protection is small.

　　● Intermediary agencies must ensure that the advertised content is true and effective when providing paid referral internship service. They cannot package the positions that were originally open to the public into positions that need to be paid referral, and they cannot recommend internship positions that are inconsistent with previous commitments or students’ requirements after charging students’ "referral fees".

　　□ Our reporter Han Dandong

　　□ Intern of this newspaper Guo Yuanqiao

　　At the beginning of 2020, influenced by the COVID-19 epidemic, online learning and online office became a highly popular topic. With the normalization of epidemic prevention, online learning and online office have become an important choice for people nowadays.

　　For college students facing employment, in addition to completing the basic online learning courses, it has become the first choice for many college students to obtain an internship experience in a top company through online "remote internship".

　　However, such internship opportunities have been targeted by some businesses and started to buy and sell. Searching for the keyword "internship" on idle fish, Taobao and other platforms, you will find that many merchants post internship resources. Merchants claim to be reliable intermediaries and can get internship places through internal relationships, or so-called "remote internships".

　　Recently, some media reported that "Alibaba’s remote internship is 15,000", "Blackstone’s LEVEL is 18,000", "PricewaterhouseCoopers is 21,000" and "Boston (consulting) is 25,000". A netizen also exposed a screenshot of the WeChat chat of Ernst & Young’s resigned employees pretending to be Ernst & Young’s recruitment of "remote internship".

　　The "Rule of Law Daily" reporter learned that the paid "remote internship" is not only expensive, but also has many routines.

　　Paid internships are common.

　　Mainly involving head enterprises.

　　Affected by the epidemic situation, it is not convenient to enter the company or work in the field during the internship, and all kinds of internship tasks assigned by the internship company can only be completed online. On the premise of ensuring quality and standard, "remote internship" is really good for college students and companies. At the same time, however, many intermediaries and individuals have started paid internships with the help of information asymmetry between students and internship units.

　　The so-called paid internship means that intermediaries and individuals provide internship opportunities for students through personal resources, contacts or other means, and students need to pay high prices for the internship opportunities.

　　Screenshots taken by some netizens show that when the netizen said that he wanted to know about the internship position of Ernst & Young, the other party said that he could help him enter Ernst & Young’s internship by paying for the "remote internship", with a price of 7,000 yuan, and said that "remote internship" is a business model that has just come out in recent years, because there are too few internships in the market and the threshold for "remote internship" is low, in fact, it is to pay for an internship. Regarding the payment contract and the issue of offer, the other party said that because it was a personal act, the payment agreement could not be signed, but the payment could be made by sending the offer first, and the payment could be delayed by Alipay.

　　The reporter of Rule of Law Daily learned through investigation that at present, paid internships are not uncommon, and there are paid internships on Internet social platforms such as WeChat, Weibo and QQ.

　　"An institution can provide ‘ Remote internship belt certificate ’ Unit ""A recent remote summary of an institution ""The recent opening of colleges and universities has reduced the demand for students’ field practice. Little friends can push more remote, and the remote internship with proof is organized as follows "… … Information like this frequently appears in many college students’ WeChat circle of friends, WeChat internship group and QQ internship information group, involving securities companies such as CITIC Securities, CITIC Jiantou, Guotai Junan and China Merchants Securities, consulting companies such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young and iResearch, luxury jewelry and FMCG companies such as LV, Dior, Procter & Gamble and Unilever, and some big Internet companies such as Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance.

　　The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" found that Weibo’s "internship" is also full of the words "internal promotion", and posting "seeking internship" will attract a large number of intermediaries to take the initiative to inquire.

　　Field remote free choice

　　The price is as high as 20 thousand yuan

　　In addition to social platforms, the reporter of Rule of Law Daily found that when searching for related information such as "paid internship" and "pushed internship" on Internet e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Xianyu, many merchants posted their own internship resources. It is also not uncommon to find paid internship information such as ByteDance product job internship push, Tencent business analysis push, and CITIC Jiantou Securities Investment Banking Department push.

　　The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" randomly consulted an internal referral agency named "BCG Bain McKinsey MBB Remote Online Internship Insurance offer". The store said, "We are mainly engaged in internship promotion, job search guidance, one-on-one tutoring by tutors and other projects. We have internship positions and tutor resources in investment banks, research institutes, fixed income, quantification, asset management, VCPE, actuarial science, Big Four, consulting, foreign banks, the Internet, and fast-moving top 500 companies.

　　When asked how to charge, the store replied: "The price of field practice is between 20,000 yuan and 25,000 yuan, and the monthly internship salary is about 4,000 yuan to 6,000 yuan. You can do long-term work and leave people. If it is a remote internship, it is very cheap, ranging from several thousand yuan to more than 10,000 yuan. Depending on your internship time, you can issue relevant certificates, but you don’t leave personnel. "

　　When Baidu searches for keywords such as "paid internship" and "pushed internship", "2020 paid internship? Relevant information such as applying for an internship with a famous enterprise immediately/full-time quick promotion "and" summer internship for international students "will also appear in the page headlines.

　　The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" combed and found that there are two forms of paid internships in the society: "offline internship" and "online internship". In comparison, the form of paid "offline internship" lasted longer. As early as 2017, many institutions issued a statement to resist the behavior of paid introversion. In December 2017, the famous accounting firm KPMG issued a solemn statement on the behavior of related paid introversion.

　　At present, it is still common to pay for "offline internship". Some students majoring in finance said that it has long been a well-known secret among students majoring in finance to promote famous enterprises within the payment. In addition, compared with the paid "online internship" that doesn’t "walk the personnel", many intermediaries and individuals said that the field internship needs to go through the personnel department and also has the corresponding internship salary, so the price will be higher.

　　Then the question is coming. Why can’t the paid "online internship" "leave the personnel"?

　　It is understood that "long-distance internships are all personnel-neutral", "long-distance internships are generally recruitment within the project team and do not take official channels" and "because this has not really gone to the enterprise, you are definitely not an internship with personnel" … … It has become the rhetoric of many intermediaries and individuals.

　　The authenticity of the internship certificate is doubtful.

　　Paid internships are often rumored.

　　The reporter of "Rule of Law Daily" learned that the current steps of paying for "online internship" are generally divided into: Step 1, intermediaries or individuals provide applicants with so-called "remote internship" positions of well-known enterprises, and applicants need to pay high fees in exchange for offer；; Step 2: After the applicant pays the fee (usually by personal transfer or transfer to a consulting and education company specializing in this kind of business), the intermediary agency will contact the illegal employees of the corresponding well-known company, and the employees of the company will send an offer email to the applicant with the company mailbox to confirm the admission as a "remote intern", and a large part of the high fee paid by the applicant will be divided by the illegal operators of the company; In the third step, the company’s illegal employees assign "internship tasks" to applicants by email, WeChat, QQ, etc., generally in the name of writing industry reports, research or repetitive work, so that candidates can carry out so-called internship work.

　　Qi Wang (pseudonym) has worked in many well-known financial companies, and he once took a "remote intern" for an intermediary company.

　　According to Qi Wang, the staff of the intermediary agency told him that there were many students in his hand, so he could introduce them to work remotely, send emails and teach them, and bring a student to get a reward of more than 10,000 yuan.

　　"Now, it seems that this kind of internship is more ‘ Water ’ Students want proof from the human resources department, but in fact we can’t give it. " Qi Wang said, "Although this so-called cooperation has made me make money, my heart has been uneasy."

　　Qi Wang believes that this kind of service is equivalent to breaking a balance, making the internship unfair, making the whole society more impetuous, and giving people the illusion that they can enter a big company as long as they have money. In the past, internship opportunities in large companies often needed to be obtained by submitting resumes, providing school grades, social experiences, and even participating in interview competitions. Now, the "sky-high" paid internship not only makes the internship taste bad, but also lays a risk in the effectiveness of "internship certification".

　　In the face of the chaos that some third-party organizations or individuals ask job seekers for relevant fees on the grounds of providing interview, internship/job opportunities in today’s market, KPMG, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers among the four major accounting firms will produce anti-counterfeiting reports in 2020.

　　On April 16th, KPMG China solemnly declared: "KPMG China has never authorized any third-party organization or individual to provide paid interviews and job opportunities for KPMG, nor has it provided any long-distance online internships or work projects. All interns or employees who are hired must report to the relevant office of KPMG China and go through the formal entry procedures before they can start their work."

　　On May 20th, Ernst & Young officially denied the rumor: "Any information and policies of Ernst & Young member institutions in China campus recruitment shall be subject to the official WeChat platform of Ernst & Young School Recruitment. Exclusive broadcast, only one, no branch. An Yongjun has not cooperated with any other third-party job search or training institutions. Please don’t be superstitious. "

　　On June 11th, the PwC campus official denied the rumor: "Any third-party organization or individual who claims to get an interview, internship/job opportunity by paying a fee is false."