4 Benefits of an Internship Abroad

You are applying for a job in today’s competitive job market.  How will you stand out? My answer to students is always the same. You will stand out with an extraordinary internship. By Aniket Singh (Author of Intern Abroad This Summer).

Good grades are great but an internship will just make you stand out. And the best internship that will make you stand out is a foreign internship. With a full time foreign internship, you will professional development, jobs training and cultural immersion all at the same time. 

It will give you the confidence you need to stand out from the crowd.

Whether you dream to intern in Barcelona, Madrid, London, Shanghai or Dublin you will pick up skills that will make your resume stand out while you live the experience of a lifetime.

Here are some other benefits of a summer internship abroad

1. Get Your Credits: Most students are unaware that they can get their credits while doing a foreign summer internship.
2. Flexibility: Having lived in your country for all your life you start taking your way of life, your customs and your habits for granted. You expect the whole world to be the same. But when you step in a foreign country, you realize that different countries have different ways of doing the same thing. This challenges your thinking and makes you think out of the box which is always a good thing.
3. Independence: A foreign internship teaches you independence. For most students who have lived with family all their lives, living in a foreign country on a stipend teaches you independence It teaches you how to budget your finances. It teaches you how to take care of your house while you cook, clean, laundry and run other chores. It teaches you how to make friends and thrive in a new social environment.
4. Benefits After Internship: Students who have interned abroad end up getting a higher salary than their counterparts, get a job faster than their counterparts and get into their grad school of choice better.

About the author:

Aniket Singh works for Apple Inc. in California, United States. I Am the author of "Intern Abroad This Summer".

I holds a BTech degree in Electrical Engineering from the IIT, Madras, Chennai, and a Master’s degree in Wireless Systems from Politecnico Di Torino in Torino, Italy. 

He has interned at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland during this studies.

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