Explore Career Interests, Showcase Your Skills

International Internships has helped many people gain practical experience and envision new career paths. Plus, it showcases character, initiative, and personal qualities that today’s employers seek.

International internships in understaffed and under-resourced organizations overseas develops life skills and fosters creativity. It nurtures the ability to be flexible in changing conditions, and adapt and adjust to new environments and cultures. Interning abroad showcases an interest in learning about other cultures and working with people from diverse backgrounds.

Hands-On Work Experience

You will do hands-on work in your placement. While we ask interns to be flexible and open to changing conditions, these international internships are real work, not just making coffee or making photocopies abroad.

For students seeking short-term international internship options, placements might involve teaching, health care, or social work. No matter what skills or experience you have to offer, if you have the desire to serve there is an international internship opportunity to suit you.

A Learning Experience

An international internship is a highly personal experience, an opportunity for self-reflection and learning. You will be exposed to vastly different ways of thinking and worldviews during your program— although it will feel extremely challenging at times, it is also a unique opportunity for learning what it is like to work in a different culture.  You will learn from the communities where you work, the experience of traveling in the country, and the interaction with a diverse set of people.

Be great at what you are good at

Finding out what your talents are and where you interests lie is a major part of the learning experience.  International internships offer a way to gain this type of insight through short-term, practical work experience abroad.  If you already know where your talents lie, now is the time to excelerate. Gaining more experience in your field and putting it in an international context helps to differentiate you from the competition.