Your Internship Matters

An international internship is a distinctive experience that enhances your employability. The ability to work effectively with people from different cultures helps you throughout your career - from getting your first job after graduation to leading an organization.

Our placement teams have guided over 25,000 students through the internship experience, offering advice and strategies to help them navigate their professional practice and cultural immersion.

No two students and no two internships are exactly alike. Our placement teams take the time through individual internship consultation meetings to understand your personal, academic, and professional needs and match you with the internship that gives you the best opportunity to achieve your goals.

EUSA continues to support you throughout your internship - from prompting you to reflect on your developing skills through Growth Tracker to helping you resolve specific challenges.

Our placement teams carefully screen and monitor the companies and organizations we work with through regular contact - including in-person visits and student assessments.

TRACK YOUR GROWTH

Developing your ‘career’ competencies

Living and interning abroad is a great way to develop professionally and personally.

An internship abroad is a chance to build meaningful skills and experience that you can add to your resume and confidently discuss in your future job interviews.

EUSA has developed My Growth Tracker to help you identify the skills that are most important for their own professional development.

The National Association of Colleges and Employers in the U.S regularly conduct research to understand the career competencies and skills that employers are looking for today.

According to NACE’s latest research in 2026 - the ability to ‘work in a team’, ‘problem-solve’, and ‘communicate effectively’, are the competencies employers are looking for in graduates.

For example, 85% of employers are looking for graduates with teamwork skills on their resume.

My Growth Tracker is grounded in the research from NACE, and it has 10 ‘career’ competencies: 

  • Career Management

  • Communication

  • Critical Thinking

  • Equity and Inclusion

  • Global & Intercultural Fluency

  • Leadership

  • Professionalism

  • Social & Emotional Growth

  • Teamwork

  • Technology