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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 presents internship packages in Berlin, Germany’s capital. Whether or not you’re fascinated with inventive industries like artwork and trend or technical ones like enterprise or pc science, Berlin has a rewarding full-time internship or Research + 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 be taught what it’s actually prefer to intern overseas in Germany?
Hear from three faculty 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 an area startup in Berlin. Harnoor selected Berlin for its distinctive ambiance and powerful profession alternatives aligned along 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, numerous, inventive, and all the time vigorous. And with Germany’s economic system and innovation, it’s the proper 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, trend, or part of the LGBTQ+ group, there’s all the time house for you right here.
Berlin has this uncommon combine—it’s just a little 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 think about Berlin as a mirror—it displays the vitality you herald. For those who’re right here for artwork and tradition, you’ll discover it all over the place. For those who’re targeted in your profession in tech or finance, town pushes you to develop. No matter you’re looking for, Berlin provides 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 folks immediately! I’ve made some superb pals and love hanging out with my roommate—it’s been such a enjoyable expertise.”
Inquisitive about how Harnoor spends her time in the course of the week? Beneath, she sums up a day within the life:
“A typical workday begins round 9 AM, typically from house, a comfortable espresso store, or the workplace (I’m going in at the least as soon as every week). I’m presently managing an organization mission whereas serving to with smaller duties my boss assigns… I deal with the whole lot from creating 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 calm down with my roommate. Some days I head out for dinner or dangle 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 abilities. It’s an expertise that may have an enduring affect on my profession.”
Matthew: Enterprise Internship in Berlin
Matthew did a summer season enterprise internship at an area startup in Berlin. As a rising senior and worldwide enterprise main at Fairfield College, this was a wonderful alternative to get some hands-on skilled expertise earlier than graduating.
Berlin, together with many different main European cities, is well-known for its glorious 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 all over the place, and when you can’t get onto a type of, you will get on the U-Bahn (subway) or S-Bahn (commuter rail), that are all over the place they usually’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 one million 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 may simply scan it out of your cellphone in the event that they ask on your ticket. I’ve by no means seen a better system.”
Public transportation is way from the one wonderful thing about Berlin. As a world metropolis house to folks from all corners of the world, it’s a wonderful 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 in addition native German meals. It’s all genuine and contemporary. I’ve loved it loads.”
Teddy: Enterprise Internship in Berlin
Teddy from Saint Michael’s Faculty did a enterprise internship in Berlin in the course of 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 a terrific alternative to [go] overseas and do an internship… [My internship] matches in with my main, and it’s been nice.”
Some highlights of Teddy’s internship in Berlin included studying the right way 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, good spot to work. I’ve a good time… My duties [involve] loads of pc 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 an entire new expertise for me…nevertheless it’s actually cool to be taught and mess around with the software program and be taught 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 faculty:
“This internship is certainly going to assist me on my resume and put me on the market. An internship overseas is big, [it lets you] be taught [about] the tradition in numerous international locations of the world and expertise how right here in Germany [a company] may be completely totally different than an organization within the U.S. It’s actually cool to be taught…how corporations are run right here.”
Prepared to find all Germany has to supply? Intern overseas in Berlin with AIFS Overseas like these three faculty college students did!
AIFS Overseas presents a variety of intern overseas packages in Germany, every tailor-made to fulfill particular educational, skilled, and private preferences. Whether or not you’re fascinated with enterprise or product administration—like Harnoor, Matthew, and Teddy—or seeking to break into certainly one of Berlin’s different thriving industries, there’s a program in Germany for you! Plus, once you intern overseas in Berlin with AIFS Overseas, you’ll obtain all of our helpful program inclusions (which actually take the stress out of planning!), similar to housing, journeys and excursions, social and cultural actions, the journey go, complete insurance coverage, profession readiness programming, 24/7 emergency assist, and the assist of our trusted on-site employees.
