Internship in the UK (also traineeship, or secondment) is often necessary to
complete degrees for a student that wants to highlight is skills and get a first
experience at work! To seek an internship abroad is also a unique experience,
in term of language as well as for learning a new culture.
The obvious method to find a secondment abroad is to contact directly companies
from your countries with subsidiaries in England and which can send you abroad
for an internship. Some large worldwide companies organise selections with tests
and interviews to recruit interns.
Here are some websites that might be useful:
CEI-French Centre [http://www.cei-frenchcentre.com/frenchcentre]
is a member of the British-French Commercial Chamber (Chambre de Commerce Franco-Britannique),
and offers internships in London.
This organisation works mainly with companies based in London. You can validate
you training at international level with the University of Cambridge (more information
with http://www.ucles.org.uk
or http://www.cie.org.uk).
They also make available a service to find accommodation that can be very handy
when you found your internship.
Internship-UK [http://www.internship-uk.com]
offers Internship Programmes in London. Although the positions are unpaid, the
organisation provides for subsidized accommodation and food (in London and New
Romney office). They might also offer bonus travel awards and benefits. Positions
are available in office, reception, marketing, sales, IT, accounting, hotel
management.
However, British companies do not recruit interns extensively like in other
countries. In finance or banks for example, internship is often synonymous with
"discovering how a company works". English companies recruit more
often within Graduate programmes, set up every year and often (but not
always) ending with a full employment in the company. You can read here
the example with Morgan Stanley.
EU programme : Leonardo da Vinci
The Leonardo da Vinci Community vocational training
action programme, introduced in 1994, promotes projects based on co-operation
between the various players in vocational training - training bodies,
vocational schools, universities, businesses, chambers of commerce, etc.
Community funds for the first phase of the programme amounted to € 800
million between 1995 and 2001, and 125 000 people received a grant for
a work-related stay abroad.
The program addresses to:
- young people with less than 28 years. The program concurs to realize
an experience that can go on from a minimum
of three weeks to a maximum of nine months according to the level of
formation;
- to young people with less than 28 years with a professional title:
it is possible to carry out a training of job in a
company (for a period between three and twelve months) in the
working market of an other European State;
- to young university student : it is possible to work
for some months (minimal three, maximum twelve) in a company of an other
European State.
Information about participating in a Leonardo da Vinci project can be
obtained by contacting the Leonardo
da Vinci national agencies.
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