Internships not helpful in finding job

Internships, trainings and intervention work don't facilitate securing a workplace by the unemployed, according to a report by the Supreme Audit Office (NIK). The office controlled the efficiency of professional activation of the unemployed in eight voivodeships between Q1 2011 and Q1 2014. The report read that internships and intervention works not only don't help in finding a job, but allow for using the unemployed as a cheap or even free workforce. Only between 33 and 39 percent of the jobless managed to find a job within three months after completing an internship. In the case of trainings, the share is even lower standing at between 18 and 21 percent. "After one year since completing them, the numbers decrease,"said Andrzej Trojanowski, the Rzeszów office press secretary. The controllers point out that the Ministry of Labour doesn't have reliable knowledge about the effects of professional activation. The auditors say that the indicator used by the ministry overstates the effectiveness by almost one third.