My Experience with the Zuri HNG Internship

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I was excited when Zuri sent me an email about their HNG internship weeks ago. My excitement would later turn to horror as the program progressed. I chose the Digital Marketing track as I am trying to transition into that area.

The first task they gave us after familiarizing ourselves with the LMS system — Slack being a huge one. We created a blog with websites other than WordPress and Wix.

I chose Tumblr as it is not that popular in Nigeria, at least to my knowledge. Some students used Medium. The first assignment they gave us was to write a short blog post promoting one of Zuri’s products and use a keyword and try to justify the keyword.

I went with Zuri books because of the low competition. I wrote a short blog post on Tumblr and submitted it to them. They scored me 6 out of 10 and I advanced to stage 2.

I was confused by this because this is the first time I would see such a concept used in an internship. The next part was that we had to join groups and each person from each track would have to complete tasks in projects.

I joined different groups because the management kept on dissolving groups which I found weird. What was going on? The ultimate insult came yesterday when I tried to log into the Slack group only to find that I could not log in.

It was then that it sank in. They kicked me out because I did not advance to stage 3. This angered and hurt me. I vowed never to ever sign up for any Zuri internship after this.

Just that action alone shows how worthless some online internships and training are. Why waste my time on something like that when I can always learn some of that shit online via YouTube and get free e-books and stuff and create an impressive portfolio afterward?!

This blog might as well count as a portfolio of sorts. In fact, I can use my Tumblr blog as a free promotion for myself. Screw them. I am not allowing some bitches to determine my worth. I am way more than that internship. Periodt!!

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