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There's a right way to look for an internship and a wrong way. By right and wrong, we mean one way will get you a job, and the other way will waste your time.

The wrong way is to look for interesting internship openings on the internet and apply for them. The right way is to first give some serious thought to what you want to do first, then contact companies in your industry and create your internship.

This section will help you choose what you want to do and then take the next step from there. Before we continue - if what you want to do is child care your health care delivery, you are out of luck, both of these professions are closed to foreign interns.

Engineering Hospitality Management Tourism
Business Administration Information Technology Law
Non-Profit/Non-Governmental Organizations Health and Biotechnology Finance

Engineering

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: drafting (especially in AUTOCAD, PROENG, VECTORWORKS, and Photoshop), design, operations management, risk assessment, administration, quality control, manufacturing assistance, technology implementation, documentation, data entry & data mining, site assistance, marketing & market research (including distributor analysis, promotion, collateral development, and contact management), internet research and process implementation.

Hospitality Management

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Customer service, food service, table bussing, administration (including document processing, design and formatting, data processing, data mining, contact relations management, internal and external communications via email, phone and fax, and scheduling), room maintenance, room services, room booking, staff interviewing, training development, internet research and event coordination.

Tourism

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Client generation, service, promotion, ticketing and ticket sales, administration (including document processing, design, and formatting, data processing, data mining, cash management, contact relations management, internal and external communications via email, phone, & fax), invoicing, web content development, web design, tour organization/research, tour attendance, loyalty program development, recruiting/interviewing, internet research and event coordination.

Business Administration

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Internet research, operations/process analysis (in accordance with ISO), distributor analysis and contact, export development (including distributor/product sourcing, comparative analysis, logistics analysis), international trade (specifically, logistics documentation, supply chain analysis, import/export documentation including invoicing, tariff research, administration support and customs documentation), market research and analysis (specifically utilizing Excel, Word, Access, and SPSS software), marketing collateral design (specifically utilizing Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel, Pagemaker, and Powerpoint), client relations, customer service, business development, entrepreneurship and zero sum negotiation assistance/analysis (win-win situational development).

Information Technology

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Programming (particularly utilizing Java, XML, C, C++, Visual Basic, and with a knowledge of Java Scripting, Windows, and Linux platforms with a variety of server bases), Wireless Fibreoptic technology and attached platforms, Design (especially with Macromedia products, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop), animation, Microsoft platform network administration & troubleshooting, customer service, database design & implementation, and software development/design for business applications.

Law

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Research and documentation support (knowledge of Canadian Quick Law is an asset), client service, interviewing, note-taking, document drafting/formatting (especially utilizing Word), report writing/compilation, administration support (specifically, answering phones, making appointments, completing applications and ensuring supporting documents are present), precedent case analysis and research, letter writing, and event coordination.

Non-Profit/Non-Governmental Organizations

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Private and public funding sponsorship research, social and political policy research, administration (including contact management, data mining/processing/verification, cross-referencing, correspondence via phone, fax, and email, proofreading, letter writing, and scheduling), volunteer coordination, event planning/production/coordination, media management/relations, accounting/bookkeeping, client services, entrepreneurship, graphic design (specifically utilizing Pagemaker, Photoshop and Word), web design and content development/updating (utilizing Frontpage).

Health and Biotechnology

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Laboratory work, protocol development, sample & media preparation, equipment maintenance/preparation, results recording/analysis, report writing, statistical analysis (utilizing SPSS and several other statistical analysis packages), quality assurance and risk assessment, patient relations, production assistance, preventative risk assessment, research corroboration, primary and secondary source research, experimental design and microscopy.

Finance

» Typical roles and responsibilities may include a combination of any of the following: Data processing and entry (particularly using Excel, Accpac & QuickBooks), invoice generation, research, administration (including bank reconciliation, internal & external communications, letter writing, record creation, filing, copying and information processing), financial modeling, database management, customer service (including telephone sales, information collection, & product marketing), system implementation, inventory control process analysis, stock research, company research and comparative analysis.
 
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