If you want to get a great job that pays a good salary, one of the best ways to learn about the industry you are leaning towards and to get your foot in the door, so to speak, is to look for an internship. Not just any internship – a corporate internship. Why are corporate internships so sought after? Well there are a number of reasons. First of all, just about all corporate internships are paid internships, which means that you will get a very basic salary for your time working there. This could be weekly, or monthly, depending on how long the internship is for. This is great for students and will really help you to pay for your studies instead of taking a secondary job as well. You can get the best of both worlds. Secondly, corporate internships are highly popular because they cover a ...

As the semester draws to a close, most students are hard at work trying to find summer jobs or summer internships. While internships can be hard to get into as many require certain criteria, you will be glad to know that many cities still have summer intern positions available. You can enjoy travelling to a different city or state and make money while learning more about the career you want to go into when you have graduated. While many of these internship programs are offered throughout college and company home cities or states, other institutions are providing lucky students with international internships during the summer. For example, Harvard is sending 51 students to intern in Africa where they will be working in areas of education, healthcare, government, and religious institutions a...

Global IT Company, Atos Origin, has confirmed that they plan to recruit about 3500 more employees into their company, including at least 700 for their French division. These positions will include offering 50 % to new graduates that want to enter the IT industry and start their careers. Their 2009 Young Talent Plan also includes offering about 800 internships, 500 of which will be in France. This close collaboration with universities and colleges is set to create a new benchmark for the IT industry globally, as more and more first, second and third year students will be able to get on the job experience and learn more about the different IT industries that they can work in, as well reassuring them about their future career prospects.  The internship programs will include 6 month internshi...

Interning in any country, in any industry, has its pros and cons, and to make things easier for those of you who are getting a summer internship this year, here are the top 10 things that you can do to make your internship a success: Make Sure You are Noticed Make sure that the important people in the company realize that you are new by initiating contact and offering to help out in any way. Your friendly, go-getter attitude is what will impress the boss. Do Research About the Company Knowing everything you can about the company you are going to intern at and its employers will give you a good footing. You can learn more by reading local newspapers, asking the Chamber of Commerce, setting up interviews, checking websites, and requesting more information from the company itself.  Set Goal...

There are many different places around the world that offer sports internships and if you want to experience living in a different location and learn all about the sports of that country, then this is a valuable exercise for anyone looking to go into a professional sports career, whether it is to play, become an agent, manage, coach, or even to cover the journalism side of sports. There are a number of excellent intern programs like AustraLearn which offers full internships throughout cities in Australia and New Zealand. The sports interns that join this program will learn a huge amount about sports management, sports marketing, sporting programs, fitness training, program development, tour operations, coaching, surveying, tourism development, sports customer service, and more. In Canada t...

If you want to become an intern to get ahead in the career of your choice, there are many ways of doing this and many places where you can find exciting intern programs. One of the most exciting places to become an intern is overseas. There are many wonderful benefits and opportunities of getting an international internship, but you must be very careful to choose the internship for the actual job and not for the location. To get the best training and advice possible, you should not necessarily choose an internship in the most exotic location, but rather where you feel you will get the best working opportunity. You will also benefit greatly from working in a foreign land, and learn about different cultures and economic structures. Remember that in other countries there might be perfect oppo...

When you want to learn all about the career path you have in mind after graduating, an internship is probably the best and most common way to do this. You not only gain on the job experience, but you will sometimes get paid as much as the entry level salary depending on the industry. There are various types of internships of which the paid version is one. There is also a for-credit internship where you will receive credits towards your graduation, which is normally an unpaid job. Sometimes however there is also a paid credit option called a stipend, but these are very rare to find, and many just cover your basics, such as transport, meals, and placement. When you are looking for an internship while still at college or university, make sure that you can find one that offers academic credits...

Most of the time, when you hear of becoming an intern or taking an internship, you think about shadowing someone from a company and learning what they do without getting paid. While this may be true of some places, it is far from the truth. The many misconceptions surrounding internships has prompted the Internship Finder website, where you will get all the details about internships including how to get them, what they are, the different job categories you can find internships in, internship terminology, where to apply for internships and more. You will soon have access to a job board when the member’s section is launched so that you can apply for internships easily online from the Internship Finder website. You can also find lots of resume tips, interview advice, details about when to i...