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For students, I understand, it gives them "exposure", but why do firms give non-assessment internships especially when they do not have vacancies for freshers or do not plan to hire them?
2. Also, I have heard from an HR that every internship is an assessment internship, otherwise what is the purpose of the internship. Is that true?
3. Why HRs of all these law firms (except a few) are soo unprofessional? They have one job, and they can't do that right.
(ii) Interns sometimes can be used for redundant tasks like citation, numbering, preliminary research (the person asking you to do this needs to do it all over again anyways to be sure).
(iii) firms closing down internships because they are not looking to hire is just going to be lose-lose situation. They can at best clarify whether or not they are looking to hire. But if they do this senior students will probably avoid the internships leading to a natural decrease in quality.
2. I believe Khaitan has this policy, Not sure though. Honestly I cant rule out the Tier 1 HRs saying this just to get rid of that conversation.
3. (i) Unprofessional because they aren't the best at their job. Why would an MBA join the HR department of a Law Firm? They have to be bad at what they do to get hired here.
(ii) Unprofessional because they know there aren't going to be any consequences. India me kisi ko thoda sa bhi power de do toh woh khud ko PM samajhne lagega. Try going in through a client contact or something and see how they're attitude changes. They will be at your feet willing to accommodate you for the month/time/practice of your choice and respond promptly as well.
(iii) A lot of times these are not even proper HR people looking after internships, they are just secretaries. Prospective/ Interns are the only people they can probably mistreat. (Check JSA)