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8 Convincing reasons why you should take an internship abroad

Taking an internship abroad is becoming more popular amongst young students today and quite rightly so, because it´s definitely the best way to gain work experience, explore and live a different culture, be independent, learn to take risks and find out about yourself as a person.

1. Living in the real world and enhancing your academic experience and performance.

This is a superb opportunity to apply all the theories you´ve learnt in the classroom and relate them to real experiences. Similarly, what you have experience and learnt from your year abroad can be taken back to the classroom. This means that your discussions, questions, and papers will reflect your greater level of understanding to a real world context, and so will your grades. Also, you`ll develop a greater appreciation for how your academic assignments and achievements translate to the world of work! Let´s face it being at school, college and university is not the real world and students really need to realise that there is a world outside of it and taking an internship can really help you to akcnowledge this.

2. Gaining confidence in yourself

Learning how to live and surive successfully in a foreign country will definitely increase your confidence as a person and once you have completed the internship, you´ll go back home and realise that anything really is possible, if you put your mind to it. Very often it´s our lack of confidence which prevents us from doing what we want to do in life and so a successful internship abroad definitely gives us a self esteem boost!

3. Potential Networking

Going abroad means the chance to meet lots of different people of all different nationalities who could be great points of contact in the future, for work or travel purposes. Also, it means the chance to travel in the future to other countries and stay with friends who you have met on your whilst interning. These could be friends from Australia, Canada, China or Europe, so lots of potential countries and people to visit in the future! Networking is especially beneficial for graduates who may need to look further afield in terms of job prospects.

4. Getting on the job ladder

Of course an internship can give us a step up in terms of helping to obtain that all important work experience for future job applications and CVS. So, where best to start than with an internship placement, which can give you a taster of the world of work without too much commitment or pressure! It maybe that you proove to be a successful intern and they might want you to come back and work for them full time!

5. Taking a career test drive

So, you’re not quite sure what you want to do for a career but you have a few ideas in mind. So, why not test out your options with an internship in the specific field. It could be that through your internship you find out what you would definitely not want to do for a career or the opposite that you find that you really like what you are doing and would like to persue it!

6. Developing skills in abundance

An internship can help you to gain all those important personal and interpersonal skills that you need in life and in your professional career. More importantly, you need to be able to prove to your employer that you have these skills and also to be able to demonstrate that you have them which are most important! We are talking about the usual skills such as teamwork, leadership, problem solving skills and many more that employers look for and want as a pre-requisite.

7. Earning some cash

Not all internships are paid of course, but many are and this gives you the chance to fund your travels and trips whilst you are interning.

8. Improving language skills or learning a new language

Now we are living in an ever inreaasing globalised world, we need to think and act globally and the best way that we can do this is by learning foreign languages whilst living in another culture. One of the most important global skills employers are seeking is foreign language skills and the way to do this is by interning abroad.

If you´re convinced by these 7 reasons for interning abroad and you now fancy taking an internship, but don´t quite know how to go about doing it, then this is where European Internships can really help. We have a variety of internship options in different sectors available throughout Europe for you to look at and consider. Take a look at our website and then get in contact with us and we´ll make your internship happen for sure!


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