What does Jillian Skrocki believe（）

A. Unpaid internships are useless for graduate students.
B. It is vital to put some internships on your résumé.
C. Taking unpaid internships has lowered her worth.
D. She could have got her current job without internships.

Employers like to see internships on the résumé. Three quarters of those surveyed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities said they want students to obtain real-world know-how "through internships and other hands-on experiences". According to research firm InternBridge. corn, 60 percent of students say internships are now mandatory (强制的,法定的) for graduation at their schools. The result; more than half the class of 2011 had at least one internship, according to the NACE.

The high demand for internships in this gloomy economy ends up translating into lots of free labor for companies. Nearly half the 2011 grads were not paid for their work. At not-for-profits, that’s OK (at least in the eyes of the law). But when it comes to for-profit companies, it’s an issue. The Department of Labor has six conditions that must be met for unpaid internships at for-profit companies to be legal. The internship has to benefit the intern (not the company), for one thing. The intern can’t displace a regular employee, for another. The biggie, however, is that the internship must be "similar to training.., given in an educational environment". That’s been interpreted to mean unpaid internships at for- profit companies are legal as long as students receive academic credit.

Is it worth it Not always.

Unpaid internships don’t do as much for you in the job market as paid ones do. According to the 2011 Student Survey by the NACE, paid interns spent more of their time on professional duties, while unpaid interns were given clerical ones. 61 percent of paid interns working at for-profit companies received a job offer; only 38 percent of unpaid interns working at for-profit companies did. And paid interns netted higher starting salaries. "The unpaid internship offers no advantage to the job-seeking student," NACE concludes.

University of Pittsburgh grad Jillian Skrocki had her doubts. "I’11 never forget my grandfather telling me to never take any job or internship that was unpaid. He said, ’ You’re worth more than that. ’" Nonetheless, she took several unpaid internships before graduating last May. And,now employed full time with an insurance company, she isn’t sorry. "Internships are indispensable," she says. "If you don’t have lots of things on your résumé, then it will be trashed.\