#How to find an Internship

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gleaming needle
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Search for what you want. If you want to be a game developer search for "game developer". You can also add "internship" although both the site I've sent allow you to filter out the type of position.

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How to find an Internship

shell steeple
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Why do you need to find an internship if you already got an offer in a foreign country. I don’t get it

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I see, and I’m guessing nothing related to programming ?

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The current internship you have, is it programming job?

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I think we don’t understand each other. You said

I got the offer of an internship in a foreign country
What is this internship? What industry ?

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I see. So you are looking for an internship, and you school will help you getting accepted.

So, yeah. The best would be LinkedIn or any website that has job offers from European countries (if you are from there, has it is more complicated to get a job in the Americas if you are European).

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Internship are most often paid. So you will no need to pay the company to get hire, they will pay you for working for them

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Wdym by « write »?

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Depending the company, sometimes they pay for relocation, breakfast and lunch in site, etc (not all tho). But, I’m curious, why do you want to go in a foreign country? I think it will be easier to find something in your country?

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Apply to every company you find. No matter the size. You will most likely get an answer for startup tho.

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Im curious, how old are you and which degree are you currently pursuing ?

gleaming needle
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I agree wth Astra here. Try to find an internship in the country you're currently living in. It will be much easier.

shell steeple
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Oh. Well, that is also another factor to take in consideration. Not saying it is impossible, but it will be very difficult for you to find a lm internship at 16 and not even in college

shell steeple
gleaming needle
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And without prior experience

shell steeple
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I would say, focus on school and learning, get experience working on projects on your own and/or open source projects. Then once you get to college/university, you will most likely have better chance to find an internship

gleaming needle
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For 2 weeks? You want a 2 weeks internship? I doubt you'll find anything interesting with all those requirements

shell steeple
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An internship is a least 2-3 months

stark thorn
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you're required to do an intership in another country?

shell steeple
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Which country are you from if you don’t mind me asking

stark thorn
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Germany has massive IT market

gleaming needle
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Yep, was about to say that

shell steeple
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Uhm, you should probably look into Germany tho.

gleaming needle
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I think for you it would be much better to look for internship in germany rather than other countries

gleaming needle
stark thorn
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here in EU, most internships are paid so you can just move close to bigger city, rent an apartment so you don't have 4h commute

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especially IT internships

shell steeple
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Other countries that speak German doesn’t exist much. As for a foreign country, I doubt nobody will hire a 16 years old from middle school (because of regulations and also because of experience and paper work)

stark thorn
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you won't get crazy money obviously but slightly less than junior level

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and even with junior level pay, which in IT is usually the country's media salary, you can rent something

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well, looks for more then

shell steeple
stark thorn
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aa no, yea, i forgot the 2 week thing

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i'm talking about an actual career

shell steeple
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Starbucks maybe

stark thorn
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internship turned into a job

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get IT internship and maybe you'll be hired

shell steeple
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Maybe McDonald

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For IT internship, with 2 weeks requirement you can probably forget about it

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Too much requirements on you to get a chance to be honest.

stark thorn
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it depends on the country and programs, internships at our company were 6 weeks i think (minimum)

shell steeple
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Your age, your grade, your 2 weeks limitation, a

shell steeple
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And that’s when I was 13

gleaming needle
shell steeple
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But that was almost 20 years ago. Maybe things has changed in Europe idk

gleaming needle
shell steeple
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Even it that’s true, the current state of the market is so bad that even experienced programmer can’t find a job.

gleaming needle
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Of course, it does exists but I've personally never seen that for only 2 weeks and even less in the IT industry which requires a lot of knowledge for the most basics jobs

stark thorn
shell steeple
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Like I said, you better learn on your own than trying to find a job that will not pay you (and will most likely not teach you anything). In two week, you can learn better than any job tbh (take already 1 week for onboarding, then not enough time left to do anything).

gleaming needle
stark thorn
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but that filter list has 0.0000n% chances to happen

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unless nepotism

gleaming needle
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Indeed, I don't see any other options

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Listen, best thing you can do is try.

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We're just warning you that it might be harder than you think for the reasons we mentioned. Our goal is not to discourage you, far from it.

stark thorn
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remember that you have to offer some value to a company

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no one is doing a charity project

gleaming needle
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Again, I really don't think there's a 2 weeks internship that will make your code anything but yes learn whatever you have to learn

stark thorn
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so, make yourself valuable

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but yeah, haven't ever heard of 2 week internships

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it's just a waste of resources

gleaming needle
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If you question was "should I learn programming in order to increase my odds of getting a job/intership" then yes of course. You should already know at least the basics of programming to pursue an internship. It's not something that can be learned in a few days or even in a few (2) weeks

gleaming needle
shell steeple
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5 months isn’t a lot either. A minimum of 1+ years to start actually understanding how programming works.

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Anyway, good luck on your research.

gleaming needle
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Some people learn faster than other. It also really depends on what you learn and the level you are at the end. Some people will be able to get a job after 3 months (it doesn't mean they'll keep it) but they often do very basics tasks until they learn more and can take on more important things

shell steeple
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In 3 months, you can probably learn basic html and css. But other than that, nothing (and good luck looking for a company that are looking for someone that know only this two skill)

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I personally been learning and studying programming the last 4 years and still don’t think I am an expert. I’m not bad, but I still have so much to learn. I just recently think I have a decent enough skill, but far from being an expert software engineer.

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This field takes time, and a lot of practice

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Yeah for sure. My point is that even for me after 4 years studying the field and 2 internships in my counter, it is very very hard to find another job.

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and I’m a computer scientist from a US university.

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And I got a second internship because I got a return offer from my previous internship, but I couldn’t find anything else other than this one.

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And it was 3 months internship not 2 weeks

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Good luck then. Sorry, I don’t know anything about Germany regulations so can’t help more

gleaming needle
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If you're serious about it and take enough time to learn it is totally achievable

shell steeple
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I just spent 4 months learning mySQL and I have a minimal knowledge about it. So, 5 months to learn all those, nah not even close.

shell steeple
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You better understand and learn by writing your own tbh

gleaming needle
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Depending on how fast you learn

shell steeple
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It is possible if you are building a project using those stacks.

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Stop tutorial, they are useless. Open a book, the informations is better than any useless dude on YouTube

gleaming needle
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i just listen to some dude while im writing along
You won't learn anything doing this

vagrant ginkgo
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Okay, so here is my thoughts on this (since I was specifically asked).

Internships are usually very long (3+ months) or "very" short 2-4 weeks (these are usually just for if you are required to do one - which I assume is the case here).

It sounds like you are trying to find an internship for year 11 at school? (E phase). If this is the case, then you should be able to find something internship based without any prior knowledge. Albeit, there isn't really much point to restrict yourself to game dev (since you'll likely just be learning the basics to programming). Additionally, if it is a school internship, then it also doesn't make sense to look for something outside of Germany. Additionally it's worth considering looking for a remote internship. "Home office" if you will. That way you wouldn't need to go to a big city or similar.

With that said, if it's not a school related internship, what's the purpose of this internship? Are you doing it for a specific purpose other than "because you're curious"?

My thoughts are:
Getting an internship is very possible, but I think it's very dependant on whether or not it's a school based internship or not (since this also has an impact on what the company will expect from you, and plan to give you in terms of tasks)

It doesn't make sense to go and work externally, simply because the IT industry in Germany is so unbelievably needy,, that in theory (especially if IT happens to be a really strong subject for you) if you can get some connections and your "finger in a companies books" it would be hella beneficial to you

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Who says home office internship is not allowed? Have you asked to clarify? Surely a one off under these conditions is allowed?

If you argue that praktika are designed to help you learn about and understand the workflow of a working German, and argue that IT is a field you'd like to go in to and that it'd make sense for you to learn about the industry you are interested in - for after all, this is in theory a deciding praktikum for your later university life etc etc. surely they can't say no if you reason yourself well :)