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Industrial Placement

  • 29-10-2007 6:59pm
    #1
    eamoss
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    I am in my 2nd year in college and in the 2nd semester of 3rd year we have to go on Industrial placement. I found out that I can go aboard for my placement and I want to go to America but iv no idea how to go about it.


    Where to I start?


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  • #2
    BuffyBot
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    Hmmm, I think Work & Jobs is probably a better place for this than here.


  • #3
    damnyanks
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    Microsoft do them in the states.

    Realisticaly unless you're a top notch student you will struggle as you need to deal with visa's and what not.

    Canada might be easier.


  • #4
    leeroybrown
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    I know quite a few people who did foreign work placements. The large majority were setup via the college in companies they had placement agreements with. The people who managed to go abroad through their own effort did it via companies they had already done some summer work for, by looking into it while abroad the previous summer or through relatives.

    I can think of very few people who got to go to the US - the majority were in Germany, the UK and France. They were a half and half split between official internship programs via the college and self arranged. The one thing I'll say is that the people who managed to get a job over there got paid fairly well.

    As has already been pointed out the first official port of call would be the official internship programs. Next to that calling in favors from friends, relatives, etc. You could also ask your college placement office for advice (I'm not sure how helpful they'd be).

    I will say that you've got one thing right already - most people I've seen asking this question do so in 6 - 9 months time at which point it's probably too late.


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