Can you get your kid an internship at your spouse's company?
Asking your spouse's employer for an internship for your child often hits roadblocks because colleagues feel uncomfortable with family members viewing sensitive information like salaries. This makes people hesitate to ask, worried it will trigger nepotism concerns or get an outright rejection from management.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1ignoring personal knowledge or treating it as standard candidate information
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My daughter is going into accounting and finance major at college and was looking for some experience and asked my husband if she could do an internship with the finance department of his company (mainly consists of a bookkeeping role)”source ↗
“My husband is apprehensive about asking because other people in his company will feel weird about his daughter looking at their salaries and that his job will just say no to her.”source ↗
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