Global Internship Programme

AIESEC partners with many corporate organizations all over the world who recognize us for a unique youth leadership talent pool.

The Global Internship Programme experience is an opportunity for you to develop entrepreneurial and responsible leadership by living a cross-cultural professional development experience. This programme offers internships that contribute to your professional development and assist to specialise in a certain field of work. They are normally long term in nature and involve working on diverse business projects and organisations.

We provide an internship in a host organisation, through which you can contribute to the goals of the organisation, complete a job description requiring special expertise or skills, and receive supervision and evaluation on your professional development.

What can you gain through this programme?

With this programme, you can gain access to AIESEC’s value-based platform, and also experience:

Cross-cultural living and working experience
Professional development experience
Global network
Practical hard and soft skills development

Who is suitable for this programme?

Students and recent graduates in the last 2 years
Between the age of 18 and 30
Available for 4-5 and 18 months depending on the job description and the country
Profile – background: Market Evaluation and Research, International Marketing, Organisation Management and planning

Requirements

Previous working/volunteer experience is an advantage
Excellent English and German or French knowledge
Student status depending on the countries

There are several countries and companies that have a prefence for Swiss students because of their language (native German or French and excellent English) and educational background (Business Adminsitration, Economics, Management studies).

Popular internships available in AIESEC Switzerland’s partner countries

Belgium (AGC Glass Europe, Ingersoll Rand ESA, Microsoft)
Germany (Deutsche Post DHL)
Greece (Teleperformance Hellas)
Hungary (TATA Consultancy Services, Nokia, Inbev, Unilever)
Ireland (Apple, Gala networks, SAP, Google, Colgate Palmolive)
Pakistan (Lakson Business Solutions)

Global Internship Programme for technical students

If you have been studying:

Software development and programming,
Web development and management,
Database management,
System analysis and design

The following countries are waiting for you: Austria, Brazil, Mainland China, Germany, Poland

The programme also includes:

One day long cultural preparation seminar (including travelling preparation, policies and programmes standards, training on the usage of our online system, workshop on cultural differences delivered by a citizen/returnee from the region)

Monthly 1,5 hour long one-to-one consultancy with your Student Exchange Programme responsible

It takes about 4-5 months to go through the selections process and match to an internship abroad

Salary is provided (the amount depends on the job description and the country) that covers the stay (other costs: airfare and insurance coverage are not included)