Meet 3 Folks Who Did an Internship in Germany with AIFS
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Dwelling to quite a few thriving industries and the biggest economic system in Europe, Germany is a wonderful place to launch your profession. AIFS Overseas gives internship applications in Berlin, Germany’s capital. Whether or not you’re concerned about inventive industries like artwork and style or technical ones like enterprise or laptop science, Berlin has a rewarding full-time internship or Examine + Internship program ready for you. And past your internship, Berlin’s nightlife, artwork scene, and handy entry to the remainder of Europe make it straightforward to have enjoyable and discover the continent. Able to study what it’s actually wish to intern overseas in Germany?
Hear from three school college students who interned overseas in Germany with AIFS Overseas!
Harnoor: Product Administration Internship in Berlin
Meet Harnoor from the College of California, Riverside, who did a product administration internship at a neighborhood startup in Berlin. Harnoor selected Berlin for its distinctive environment and robust profession alternatives aligned together with her research in finance and statistics:
“I picked Berlin as a result of, actually, there’s no metropolis in Europe prefer it. It’s daring, various, inventive, and all the time lively. And with Germany’s economic system and innovation, it’s the right place for somebody in my main.”
Throughout her internship overseas, Harnoor found much more causes to like Berlin:
“My favourite factor about Berlin is how limitless it feels. There’s a group for everybody—whether or not you’re into punk, style, or part of the LGBTQ+ group, there’s all the time area for you right here.
Berlin has this uncommon combine—it’s a bit edgy, uncooked, and daring, but nonetheless so stunning. You’ll see graffiti-covered partitions after which peaceable parks and gorgeous pre-war buildings. It’s a metropolis that has all of it. I like to consider Berlin as a mirror—it displays the vitality you herald. If you happen to’re right here for artwork and tradition, you’ll discover it in every single place. If you happen to’re targeted in your profession in tech or finance, town pushes you to develop. No matter you’re in search of, Berlin offers it proper again to you.”
Whether or not you intern overseas in Berlin or elsewhere, with AIFS Overseas, you’ll all the time have loads of alternatives to make pals with different program individuals, as Harnoor did:
“Earlier than coming right here, I didn’t know anybody, however as soon as I arrived, I began going to AIFS occasions and assembly individuals straight away! I’ve made some superb pals and love hanging out with my roommate—it’s been such a enjoyable expertise.”
Keen on how Harnoor spends her time through the week? Under, she sums up a day within the life:
“A typical workday begins round 9 AM, typically from residence, a comfy espresso store, or the workplace (I’m going in not less than as soon as per week). I’m at present managing an organization challenge whereas serving to with smaller duties my boss assigns… I deal with every thing from growing the lead era course of to organizing outreach, monitoring firm KPIs, and ensuring the entire system runs easily… I normally wrap up round 4:40 – 5 PM, cook dinner dinner, and loosen up with my roommate. Some days I head out for dinner or cling with pals—simply having fun with metropolis life.”
Reflecting on her internship in Berlin with AIFS Overseas, Harnoor emphasised how the expertise would profit her skilled future:
“This expertise has helped me develop on a world stage—working with worldwide shoppers and adapting to totally different work cultures has strengthened my communication, management, and problem-solving expertise. It’s an expertise that can have a long-lasting influence on my profession.”
Matthew: Enterprise Internship in Berlin
Matthew did a summer time enterprise internship at a neighborhood startup in Berlin. As a rising senior and worldwide enterprise main at Fairfield College, this was a superb alternative to get some hands-on skilled expertise earlier than graduating.
Berlin, together with many different main European cities, is well-known for its wonderful public transportation system, which incorporates trains, trams, and the subway. Hear Matthew spotlight simply how handy it’s to get round in Berlin:
“There are [tram] stops in every single place, and should you can’t get onto a type of, you may get on the U-Bahn (subway) or S-Bahn (commuter rail), that are in every single place and so they’re all the time working each 5 minutes—they cease at 3 AM, however they’re superb. The general public transportation right here may be very, excellent, and together with all of that, [there are] rentable scooters anyplace you go, there’s about 1,000,000 of them, which makes transportation really easy.”
To make the general public transportation even simpler and extra reasonably priced, AIFS Overseas offered individuals with a reusable ticket, as Matthew describes:
“AIFS offered us with a Deutschland ticket, which you should utilize for any public transportation [in Germany] at no cost for our time right here. You possibly can simply scan it out of your cellphone in the event that they ask on your ticket. I’ve by no means seen a neater system.”
Public transportation is much from the one beauty of Berlin. As a world metropolis residence to individuals from all corners of the world, it’s a superb place to develop your palate by sampling worldwide road meals together with native delicacies:
“[The food is] so good. There’s a lot worldwide meals, and likewise native German meals. It’s all genuine and contemporary. I’ve loved it quite a bit.”
Teddy: Enterprise Internship in Berlin
Teddy from Saint Michael’s School did a enterprise internship in Berlin through the fall semester. For Teddy, deciding to intern overseas was a no brainer:
“I’m a enterprise main and econ minor. What brings me right here is I’m a semester forward in my lecturers, so I had an excellent alternative to [go] overseas and do an internship… [My internship] suits in with my main, and it’s been nice.”
Some highlights of Teddy’s internship in Berlin included studying easy methods to replace the host firm’s system with a brand new software program and collaborating along with his pleasant colleagues:
“I’m interning at an occasion [space]/café—[it’s a] stunning, excellent spot to work. I’ve a good time… My duties [involve] loads of laptop work, which is enjoyable—I’ve been doing loads of Excel. We had an outdated software program, and we’re importing the outdated software program into the brand new software program, which is a complete new expertise for me…however it’s actually cool to study and mess around with the software program and study from different coworkers. I’ve loads of nice colleagues right here, largely all German; they’re very pleasant and…straightforward to work with.”
Considering again on his enterprise internship in Berlin, Teddy famous how this expertise would profit him when he enters the skilled world after school:
“This internship is unquestionably going to assist me on my resume and put me on the market. An internship overseas is big, [it lets you] study [about] the tradition in numerous nations of the world and expertise how right here in Germany [a company] will be completely totally different than an organization within the U.S. It’s actually cool to study…how corporations are run right here.”
Prepared to find all Germany has to supply? Intern overseas in Berlin with AIFS Overseas like these three school college students did!
AIFS Overseas gives a variety of intern overseas applications in Germany, every tailor-made to fulfill particular tutorial, skilled, and private preferences. Whether or not you’re concerned about enterprise or product administration—like Harnoor, Matthew, and Teddy—or seeking to break into considered one of Berlin’s different thriving industries, there’s a program in Germany for you! Plus, while you intern overseas in Berlin with AIFS Overseas, you’ll obtain all of our priceless program inclusions (which actually take the stress out of planning!), equivalent to housing, journeys and excursions, social and cultural actions, the journey move, complete insurance coverage, profession readiness programming, 24/7 emergency assist, and the assist of our trusted on-site workers.
