Intern Abroad

Why to Intern Abroad?

Internship Abroad – similar to many positive internships and work experiences, fosters your professional skillset and is an asset in your CV.

  1. Internship Abroad boosts your confidence as working in a new country is a challenge and overcoming the challenge due to your improved abilities ensures higher self-esteem. Imagine all this in colorful and super-unique India & Nepal!
  2. As you work out of your comfort zone, this experience develops your adaptability to grasp the new culture, language, rules and norms.
  3. You become more independent and self-responsible. In addition, you practice the field that you choose for your career, you improve your English or you can even learn a local language, imagine learning Hindi for instance.
  4. On top of this, you become an international intern which means you get international exposure, new working environment, new friends, lots of local contacts and bigger global network.
  5. Lastly but most importantly, as you choose to intern in India or Nepal with us, you engage in a wonderful travel opportunity which will definitely improve your cultural awareness through various community engagement activities, through splendid trips- workshops and networking with local people.

In today’s global labor market cultural competence will be highly prioritized as in any country nowadays you get to have a lot of international colleagues & staff members. 

Internships in India

Internships in Nepal

  1. Social development
  2. Teaching internship
  3. Engineering
  4. Fashion design
  5. Photography
  6. Video/Film making
  7. Social media marketing
  8. Business Management
  9. Marketing
  10. Agriculture and Organic Farming
  11. Architecture
  12. Hospitality Internship
  13. IT internship/ Software development/ Web design
  14. HR internship
  15. Graphic Design internship
  16. Nursing/Medical internship
  17. Dental internship
  18. Ayurveda Internship

Volunteers in Jaipur have two option of accommodation to choose from (options should come as + opening and closing drop down pages)
Host family Indian local family which is ready to receive you like a family member, share food and space with you. Chances of having single or dual occupancy are there as we don’t keep more than 3 people in one room in host families. Host family accommodation is best to discover the local culture and to enjoy tasty home-made Indian food. Food includes breakfast, lunch and dinner made by the host and includes vegetarian authentic dishes like chapatis, daal, vegetables.

Shared bedroom (max 2 people)
Western washroom with toilet & shower
Hot & cold water
Filtered water
Common Fridge
Common semi-automatic washing machine
Kitchen access to cook food if wished so
Wi-Fi or internet Data access
Family environment
Comfortable & safe stay option

This is a common accommodation for our foreign participants to share and experience each other’s culture as we have participants from all over the globe. To ensure understanding and security in this accommodation we have some basic rules to follow to make sure everyone is convenient here. Rules are no smoking inside the accommodation, no night outs, no outsiders allowed. Food in the volunteer house includes breakfast which is self-service (make your own coffee or tea, toast, oats), lunch and dinner are ordered by our coordinator staff with delivery from hygienic and decent restaurants or chefs. Food is vegetarian authentic meals like chapatis, daal, vegetables.
Facilities include

  • Gender based division of participants
  • Rooms with max 4 people in
  • Western toilets
  • Shower
  • Kitchen to cook
  • Hot & cold water facilities
  • Wi-Fi facility
  • Semi-automatic washing machine
  • Fridge
  • Filtered water
  • Air fare
  • Visa
  • Insurance
  • Lunch (in some projects available on sight, food available with cheap price in nearby project areas-we will guide you regarding this)
  • Local transportation (suggested to take community bus as it’s safe and cheap)
  • SIM card
  • Personal expenses
  1. Medical
  2. Dental
  3. Teaching
  4. Women Empowerment
  5. Environmental/Animal Care

In Kathmandu our team will allocate you with a host family that lives not far from your project. Host families are carefully chosen safe accommodation option to ensure cultural immersion as the volunteers can see the local customs and traditions, share food together and see the neighborhood with their hosts. Hosts are generally an extended family but you can come across nuclear families two, so based on the available number of bedrooms, our teammates decide how many participants can stay in one host family. Breakfast and dinner are included in the program and it is home-made local food while lunch can be easily arranged by the volunteers from nearby the project areas. It’s safe and also affordable and this way volunteers have freedom of choosing what they like once a day.

  • Shared bedroom
  • Washroom with squat or western toilet & shower
  • Hot water for bathroom in winters
  • Filtered water
  • Common Fridge
  • Wi-Fi or internet facility
  • Washing machines are not available in all the family accommodations but if the family has one, volunteer can use it.
  • Family environment
  • Comfortable & safe stay option
  • Pre-arrival assistance
  • Detailed pre-arrival orientation and cultural awareness info
  • Pick-up from Kathmandu International Airport
  • A detailed orientation about Nepal, project, cultural responsibility and things to remember in Nepal
  • Accommodation with host family (sharing occupancy)
  • Breakfast & Dinner (Home-made Nepalese meals)
  • Wi-Fi or internet access
  • Guidance to figure out the local transportation
  • Drop at Kathmandu International Airport
  • Logistics & program assistance if required
  • Emergency support
  • Air fare
  • Visa
  • Insurance
  • Lunch (in some projects available on sight, food available with cheap price in nearby project areas-we will guide you regarding this)
  • Local transportation (suggested to take community bus as it’s safe and cheap)
  • SIM card
  • Personal expenses

For costs and further details please contact us on info@stepbeyondborders.org

Virtual Internships for a Global Experience

Offered by reputed organisations in India & sub-continent, now students, aspirants and professionals can work in an international environment through virtual internships from home. What are the benefits of virtual internships?

  • If your summer internship is hampered due to COVID-19 and you are a university student, you can get credits for your virtual internship and enlarge your work experience in the field of your interest crossing the virtual borders but meantime adding a value to your CV.
  • If you are a high school graduate you have a chance to indulge in a job orientation through the internship to understand if the field you are interested in truly fascinates you, what can be the challenges and how to overcome them. It’s a unique chance to explore study field options while doing internship. There is a chance provided by STEP Beyond Borders to combine up to 3 internships in one program with a small extra fee and gain knowledge of various industries thus benefiting from career orientation.
  • Virtual internships like offline internships shape mature, self- confident participants who have better cultural competence. This is possible to achieve through constant communication with the supervisor and other team-mates, learning their work-culture, differences of approaches and also thought process. On top of this STEP Beyond Borders combines cultural immersion online with your program: our local coordinators provide cultural workshops online such as Hindi, online meditation, yoga, virtual Indian cooking, online Bollywood dance (as per the wish of the participants) which can help the interns find a tighter bond with their colleagues’ culture, have topics for “small talks” and ensure cultural inclusiveness. India is worldwide famous for it’s incredible culture so participants can experience Indian culture and its essence virtually.
  • Remote internships develop some of the most important skills of the 21st century such as communication skills and adaptability. This is achieved through various online presentations, reports, email communication and task completion. Furthermore, virtual internships provide an opportunity to boost the interns’ knowledge of and experience with technology which is an important skill both for employers and academic professionals.

Above all, who knows? Maybe you get the fascination to travel and explore India offline after experiencing its diverse culture and difference from the western word! 

Step Beyond Borders offers a range of internship positions in :

  • Marketing & Business Management
  • Digital Marketing & Social Media Management
  • Journalism
  • Architecture & Design
  • Engineering
  • Environment Waste Management
  • Human Resources
  • Project Design & Planning
  • Social development
  • Data Analysis and IT

Procedure of Placements for Virtual Internships

  • Apply through sending your CV & Motivation to info@stepbeyondborders.org  

  • Choose start date

  • Apply for free

 

  • We will match you with placement option tailored to your skills, experience and career goals
  • Update you with the acceptance confirmation

  • Confirm your placement by paying the deposite to secure your internship

 

 

  • Choose your start date

  • Get introduced to your internship organisation and supervisor 

  • Agree on your remote internship plan, tasks and schedule 

  • Online orientation

 

 

 

  • Work on real projects 

  • Have an international supervisor 

  • Enhance your learning credentials and skills 

  • Make your CV stand out with international experiences

 

 

For further details please contact us on info@stepbeyondborders.org

Apply for the internship