Virtual Internships

Virtual placements, also known as remote placements or online placements, are becoming more popular globally.

A virtual placement or virtual internship is a work placement where an intern gains professional work experience and training while not physically at the host company’s location.

All communication between the intern and company is carried out via online platforms Participants benefit from professional development before their program begins and after it finishes. 

The tools included in your program enable you to successfully prepare for your internship before you start, make the most of your experience while you’re there, and then successfully sell your experience in interviews to future employers.

• You get empowered with 21 creativity tools from Adobe that costs a fortune, tools you can use on any devise and anywhere to help businesses that potentially employ you with creative designs, animations, photo and video editing
• You get empowered with  Microsoft 365 (office and productivity tools)  Dynamics 365  Business Applications will boost your employability by 300 percent.
• We facilitate your licence  that  enables you develop  soft skills, business skills and technical skills with access from us to courses and certification from Adobe and Microsoft.
• You will have a Personalized Career Coach  from Microsoft connected to  Linkedln that uses  your interests, passion, and  academics to recommend  courses,  jobs and  supports your career  development and employability.
• Complete our  Career Development and Employability Training Course
• Get Virtual Global Internship a booming trend for Students to build experience
• `No God Father`  or  `who you know `  limitation-  Build  your own credible Network based on your  Skills, Knowledge and Expertise.
• Get deep insight into the company you want to work for
• Get your CV graded and learn how to reflect and adjust your  CV to every job you apply. Sending  a one  size fit all to every job is a recipe for REJECTION.
• Get expert training on interviews
• Access training, resources and tests on assessment centres, personality, spacial, numeracy, literacy, e-books to support your preparedness for a graduate management jobs.

You’ll work on real projects with experienced professionals, mentored by a dedicated supervisor within your host organization, and supported in your personal development

A guided reflection course, which combines personal development with professional competency building. Interns receive weekly reflection modules to complete during their program, which foster the acquisition of essential soft skills for employability and a resilient career. 

Each reflective journaling task introduces a new topic, presents learning objectives, and provides specific prompts that inspire and guide the learning process.

Upon completion of the internship and reflection course, interns receive a portfolio as documentation of their experience. 

This includes a certificate of internship completion, alongside a summary of the internship goals, skill development, highlights, and a compilation of the reflection work that will help you articulate your achievements during job interviews.

All students need to complete the career development and employability programme.

Our Career Advancement Training offers you a one year access to our exciting digital platform, with handpicked training to help you to develop each of the 8 key competencies that are identified as being essential to succeed in the 21st century.

Participants benefit from professional development before their program begins and after it finishes. The tools included in your program enable you to successfully prepare for your internship before you start, make the most of your experience while you’re there, and then successfully sell your experience in interviews to future employers.

Each of the 8 competencies listed below give a high level overview of the learning objectives of the Career Advancement Training, which are delivered through a combination of videos, podcasts, articles, quizzes and projects. Once successfully completed, you will earn badges and a certificate that can be displayed on LinkedIn.

1. Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
   Learn several methods for how to identify the route of a problem as well as how to generate solutions using mind maps and decisions trees. Learn how to use your creativity to come up with more insightful options and, using a combination of logic and intuition, to select the best one.
2. Oral/Written Communications
   Learn how to identify your key transferable skills and then how to articulate them in a compelling story that can be either written or spoken to both tell and sell your international internship story to potential employers.
3. Teamwork/Collaboration
   Learn how best to communicate in a team setting whether working in person or remotely. Learn about various online tools like Slack, Drive and Zoom, etc. that enable greater team collaboration. Learn to read people through body language as well as how to resolve and even prevent conflicts.
4. Digital Technology
   Learn the basics of digital transformation and why it is crucial in every career. Understand some of the most influential digital tools and how they are applied in the work place across a wide range of industries.
5. Leadership
   Learn how to lead with emotional intelligence. Learn how to boost your emotional quotient (EQ) in order to become more self aware and how that helps you to understand your impact when leading a team.
6. Professionalism/Work Ethic
   Learn why resilience is a key skill to be successful in any career and how you can build it. Learn how to thrive in adversity and make the most of any option B.
7. Career Management
   Learn how to create a career development plan, encompassing your career goals, skills and knowledge development for your desired future job, and how to make the most of your strengths, talents, and experience.
8. Global/Intercultural Fluency
   Learn how to develop the skills to understand cross-cultural differences and to collaborate effectively with people you perceive as different from yourself.

• Get creative and make the leap with Adobe Creative Cloud. Get 20+ apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and Acrobat Pro.
• Get all Microsoft productive and business applications with free lab to develop your digital and IT competencies.
• Get your personalized career coach with tailor-made based on your work preferences that uses your skills, passion and aspirations to suggest courses that you can take to better your career.
• Complete courses on linkedin and get certified by Linkediln, Microsoft and Adobe
• On-going professional support and  mentorship
• Get your own digital work space 
• CV and Job Application form training

• Gain real work experience
• Develop your skills and industry knowledge
• Save money on flights, visa, travel insurance
• Add an Global host company to your CV
• Make contacts for the future
• Flexible working hours – fits in with your life at home
• Flexible number of days / week – available 2, 3, 4 or 5 days / week
• Flexible location
• Continue studying or working alongside the internship
• No visa limitations
• Open to all ages
• Become part of the global online workforce (everything changed since Covid-19!)
• Safer than travelling while Covid-19 is prevalent
• Quicker to arrange than a traditional placement

Gaining online work experience will boost your employability. Having a remote internship with a leading, global company on your resume demonstrates to future employers that you can thrive in a remote environment and have the skills needed to be a valuable asset to their team, such as self-discipline, cross-cultural fluency and digital literacy. 

These skills are crucial for any career path you choose to pursue, whether it’s remote or not.