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Check out the Internship Company Examples below but know that these are just examples of common employers and not the only possibilities. Students are matched by our Global Partner with an employer based on their interests/experiences and the employer’s hiring needs.
Build Your Own Internship: Location of Your Choice
Not seeing an internship for you below? If you have a very specific internship placement in mind or are looking through our program list and not seeing your location of choice, you still have options! You can “Build Your Own Internship,” where you research and secure your own internship while working with the GEO office to receive relevant academic credit. Students are responsible for finding this internship, housing, and travel arrangements independently, which is what differs from the existing internship placement programs that GEO offers. All students will be charged in-state tuition for this program and receive a guaranteed $250-$1000 scholarship.
Build Your Own Internship
Examples of Internship Placements
Bangkok, Thailand with World Endeavors
HR Generalist Internship:
Human Resources interns will assist professionals in human resources departments with reporting and evaluations, interviewing, orientations, record-keeping, and other administrative tasks.
Payroll Internship:
Placements are available with companies specializing in payroll and HR policy.
Dublin, Ireland with World Endeavors
Professional Staffing Company Internship:
Professional staffing company with a wealth of experience in the Irish market. Interns focus on sales support, accounting, administration, and marketing functions, and also support the recruitment teams in the areas of HR, accounting, financial services, technology, business support, retail construction and marketing. Interns also support the recruitment process by sourcing, pre-screening, and scheduling potential clients, helping with interviews, assisting with LinkedIn advertisements, job posts and candidate management.
Berlin, Germany with CIEE
Start-Up Internship:
Intern with a growing startup to contribute to the human resource strategy. Research talent acquisition strategy and create a plan to expand the team in areas of need. Develop internal systems and processes for new hire onboarding and training.
Consultancy Internship:
Intern with a small consultancy on HR related projects including internal employee training and employee retention planning.
London, UK with Anglo Education Services
Non-Profit Internship:
A human resources internship with an independent international peacebuilding organization, operating programs around the world to address conflict. The intern can expect to get involved with planning and arranging interviews for new recruits, assist with the onboarding of new starters, and advertise any upcoming vacancies on relevant websites.
Hotel HR Internship:
A human resources internship at a 4-star hotel in central London. The intern can expect to get involved with an audit of their current employee files and addressing any holes they have in the paperwork, planning any upcoming staff events, as well as attending and onboard new starters and conducting orientations.
Osaka, Japan with CRCC Asia
HR Company Internship:
Intern at a company providing career support, HR solutions, and creative business solutions. It focuses on helping people fill the gap between their current situation and their ideals and hopes, and thoughts. Duties include providing marketing, strategy, and sales support for a new section of IT and AI within the company.
Prague, Czech Republic with World Endeavors
HR Internship:
Human Resources interns assist professionals in human resources departments with reporting and evaluations, interviewing, orientations, record-keeping, and other administrative tasks.
Payroll Internship:
In this internship placements are also available with companies specializing in payroll and HR policy.
Seoul, South Korea with CRCC Asia
Recruitment Internship:
Intern at a recruitment company supporting global branch managers with recruitment and operation, doing market research for global HR business and regarding strategy. Duties may include exporting and reviewing data for global regions about client usage flow and users’ application flow, setting and revising content, and supporting recruiting events with client communication.
Singapore with CIEE
HR Internship:
Intern with a SME on internal employee engagement and retention strategy.
Auditing Internship:
Intern with a MNC and audit international staff for an employee satisfaction project via small focus groups and individual interviews - contributing to a larger company review of HR policies, benefits, and procedures.
Sydney, Australia with World Endeavors
HR Internship:
Support national talent teams through candidate management, and provide overall team support. Intern responsibilities include managing candidate attraction projects, entering candidate details in the database, conducting LinkedIn activities, posting external advertisements and supporting the team with HR and marketing projects.
Tokyo, Japan with CRCC Asia
International Company Internship:
Intern at a company that has set the standard for recruitment across Japan and the APAC region – winning multiple awards in the process. Accumulatively, this firm founded by seasoned recruiters, has over 90 years of experience in their field. They’ve managed to find their niche in a saturated market by specializing in placing executive-level candidates into senior positions across the healthcare industry. Recruiters act as the mediator between employer and candidate. It is their role to understand the employer’s needs and then find a suitable candidate who fulfills those needs. As a result, strong account management and organization is essential. You will be assigned a number of key accounts and will be expected to provide a high-level of customer service to each of those accounts, ensuring that they hire the right candidate.
Consulting Internship:
Intern at a bilingual executive search and recruitment consultancy headquartered in Tokyo, assisting SMEs and multinational corporations to connect with an extensive network of bilingual professionals. Duties may include supporting business development teams, adding and contacting new or existing leads, talking to new or existing leads to understand their experience, skills, and expectations, and admin related tasks such as entering notes and info based on the discussions they had with leads or candidates.