Why this page exists
Publishing about internships and early-career growth without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.
Standards
Sourcing, checking, bylines, dates and commercial links, set out so you can judge what you read on After 5 Intern Program.
Publishing about internships and early-career growth without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.
The date you see is real. A tidy up of wording leaves it alone; only a change to what the piece recommends moves the modified date, along with a note saying so.
Part of what keeps the lights on is commercial links. The verdict on a page is written first and does not bend to whether a link earns anything.
Requests to soften a verdict are declined, and we keep them on file. More than one has become the subject of its own paragraph later.
The writer starts by getting everything down, then goes back and marks anything they could not defend if pushed. Those marks are resolved one by one, against a source or from experience, and whatever cannot be resolved is deleted rather than softened. A second reader then goes looking only for false certainty.
What gets written is decided by demand, not by a schedule. A question that keeps arriving, from readers or from our own work, becomes a page. A clever keyword with no real question behind it does not.
We attach a person to every article on purpose. It means a mistake costs the writer something, which is the strongest quality control a site this size has.
Rachel Kim, Founder and career writer. Rachel spent five years as a campus recruiter before switching sides. She now writes about what she saw from the hiring seat and what most candidates never find out.
James Okafor, Workplace skills writer. James managed intern cohorts at two agencies before going independent. His writing focuses on the unwritten rules that experienced colleagues rarely explain.
Sophie Lander, Applications and early career writer. Sophie completed three internships before landing the role she stayed in. She writes about the application process with the clarity that comes from having done it wrong first.
Send the page and the problem to info@after5internprogram.com. Typos are fixed silently. Facts are fixed quickly. Conclusions that turn out to be wrong are corrected in the open, with a note saying what we previously said.