ANALYSIS
It Takes a Village to Realize
By Chris Deliso
While Macedonia’s Higher Education Law has required all university students to do internships
since 2008, the practice is still in
its nascency. Due to a traditionally
sluggish labor market dominated
financial services sector are running
the biggest programs in addition to
the country’s biggest employers in
heavy industry and utilities. However, this isn’t the only reason companies run internship programs. In
accepting internship applications
from high school students.2 Companies mentioned included Deloitte,
Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Facebook, LinkedIn and other technology firms.
The reason why such companies are targeting the
so-called ‘Generation Z’
(those born since the mid1990s) is both a strategy to
“close the skills gap” and to
compete for the most talented young minds “to build
brand awareness early and
that means high school.” In other
words, such companies are taking a
broader view, choosing to offer paid
internships to the best and brightest – not because they necessarily
expect to hire them – but because
they want promising young people
to perceive their company as both
a desirable employer and top provider of goods and services.
U.S. companies that compete on the
labor market for certain skills are now
coo