Interns are becoming harder to place

By Mike Switzer

Published March 21, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

Avril Lail, Interim Director of Field Education at the University of South Carolina’s College of Social Work in Columbia

With the labor market still tight, we were surprised to learn that our next guest was having trouble finding employment opportunities for her college interns. Mike Switzer interviews Avril Lail, with the Field Education Office at the University of South Carolina’s College of Social Work in Columbia.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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