Evening everyone. As my junior year of college fast approaches, I have begun to hunt for different options for internships as it is a requirement for me to do one before I graduate. As many of you know, I'd like to travel outside of the states for awhile and see what there is to offer elsewhere in the world. Britain right now is at the top of the list. My major is Recreation Management with an Emphasis in Tourism and since Tourism is Britain's 5th largest industry (Or so I read), I figure it might not be a bad place to look for an internship. I'm very familiar with looking for jobs or internships here in the states, but I'm not sure how different it would be in England. I still have some time before I actually do my internship but I like starting early. Can anyone give me some tips or things to know about finding an internship in England or if there are any good websites I should check out? Any help is much appreciated.
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http://www.workcircle.co.uk/jobs/?ad=google&keywords=Internship Vacancies&adtype=Search&creative=2277249961&googlekeywords=Internship&gclid=CNGhyuDJ8dMCFQa77QodAO8G0Q
these might possibly be of use .. enjoy your trip to England, the next best place to the Garden of Eden ((:>)
Or we'll be living in a land of milk and honey and you'll be visiting the heart of a resurrected British Empire basking in the glory of a thousand new free trade agreements and a conspicuous lack of Polish being spoken on our buses. *
*source for both the General Election and Article 50 threads
https://www.travelport.com/career-center-uk-internships
https://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/search?show=jobs
The length of placement varies from a couple months to a year. There is loads of jobs on there. Pretty much all of them are paid. You can read what other people say about the place too.
General advice I'd give is you want to find the balance between a large company and a small company. Sounds weird but a large company will have a lot more support set up for students and will be used to having them and will have processes in place to deal with it all. But there is and risk of you being treated a bit too much like 'just an intern' and just making coffees, taking minutes or writing up other people's work.
A smaller company will need to use you (especially if they're paying you) So you'll be straight into the proper work from day one but they may not have systems and processes for dealing with students.
I got lucky, my placement was in a large organisation but in a small team within that, we were desperately overworked and understaffed so I had responsibility immediately.
Definitely make sure it's somewhere that has taken students before. Read the reviews on the site above or go to https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk and see if anyone has written about their experiences there.
Basically you want more than just a name on your CV. You need specific skills and experiences to talk about and you don't want to be bored to death the whole time.
Good luck!