Virtual internships give students the freedom to schedule internships around their educational and extracurricular commitments. With virtual internships, there is no obligation to absorb the cost of relocating. With a strong internet connection, virtual interns can work from home, dorm rooms, apartments, or even while traveling the globe.
GEOinterns focuses on providing virtual internships at fast-growing tech companies that are agile and familiar with remote workers. All disciplines that exist in a tech start-up are perfect opportunities for GEOinterns.
GEOinterns helps companies develop virtual internships for our participants. Most of our internships cannot be found on posting sites; they are custom-created opportunities just for GEOinterns.
Getting good jobs in the high-tech industry is always about relationships. When we work with our corporate partners, we develop a deep understanding of their company’s needs and culture. We believe in developing strong long-term relationships with hiring managers. Their success is our success.
GEOinterns utilizes several online platforms that support its students in developing a high-quality professional brand. We focus on assisting our interns in managing their LinkedIn profiles, creating a polished CV, and a top-notch video introduction that are shared with potential employers.
Virtual Internships are project-based work. Interns are assigned manageable, well-thought-out work assignments that could be accomplished off-site and then evaluated via video-conferencing or other collaborative online tools. The work is done when and where the interns can manage it, as long as it meets the companies needs and deadlines. For example, here are some possible skills and assignments that our interns can expect:
- photography and illustration
- Photoshop assignments
- writing assignments
- data acquisition
- data representation
- market research
- editing
- market analysis
- market trends
- answering customer support questions
- code quality assurance (testing software code for bugs)
- software back and front-end development
- cultural appropriateness testing (including localization of images and text to various global locations)
- posting brand messages on various media channels—Brand Ambassadors
This is just a small sample of tasks our virtual interns could be asked to perform. As such, these interns will work with teams of professionals from Marketing, Sales, Data, Software Development, HR, Customer Support, and IT departments. Our interns learn real skills on the job, all from the comfort of their familiar environments.
