{"id":29881,"date":"2022-06-07T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/?p=29881"},"modified":"2022-06-03T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:56:58","slug":"finding-an-internship-in-germany-as-an-international-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/finding-an-internship-in-germany-as-an-international-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding an internship in Germany as an international student"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even before I started studying Business Administration<\/a> at Frankfurt School, I was sure that I wanted to gain practical experience as soon as possible. This can be achieved through internships or working student positions. The biggest challenge for me as a foreigner was to find a suitable internship that matched my skillset and fulfilled my interests. I came to Germany with a B2.1 level German certificate and always took the initiative to talk with my friends in German. Getting out of my comfort zone and conversing in German was not a piece of cake but living in an environment where people communicate in German daily made it a bit easier.<\/p>\n

Mastering your Application Documents<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When I first arrived in Frankfurt, I had no connections at all in the job market in Frankfurt. I was a bit intimidated at the start, but as time passed, the Career Services<\/a> Team started organising various workshops. I took the initiative to take part in these workshops. These interactive workshops helped me master my application documents. We received a lot of CV tips from the Career Services and they guided us step by step as to how we should approach writing a good cover letter. There were some sample CVs and cover letters uploaded on Jobteaser, which provided us with a clear direction.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technical Workshop Training<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After the successful completion of the documents, I started taking part in technical workshops which were conducted by Investment Bankers, consultants, and fund managers. Learning important concepts in Finance was key to a strong foundation. It took time and was frustrating at the start, but I just hung in there and tried to amass knowledge from every source. Once I had a good base, I then started doing some mock interviews in German with my friends. Explaining technical concepts in German during these Interviews was a challenge for me as a foreigner at the start, but I decided to just keep practising until I felt confident. These interviews really gave me a good insight into the interview process. Being open to constructive criticism is an important step towards learning and I was glad to receive some valuable feedback on these mock interviews.<\/p>\n

Leveraging your network<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After the technical workshop training, the time had come to finally apply. I decided to leverage my network and land an internship after the 1st<\/sup> semester. I started off by asking some of my classmates as to where they were pursuing an internship and contacted their employers to ask if they had some more vacant positions. I then contacted some FS Alumni and inquired about a short internship. As most of the lecturers and professors at the University are working simultaneously in other companies, I wondered why not ask them. I approached my accounting professor with whom I had developed a great relationship in the class. After handing in my documents, he invited me for an interview with his partner. We went through a 1-hour case study in German. Although it was a bit challenging at the start, I was able to successfully make my way through it and ended up landing my first internship at his consultancy firm.<\/p>\n

Moral of the story<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Never lose hope or give up when you receive rejections. Once I had completed my first internship it was then much easier for me to land interviews for a 2nd<\/sup> internship. Being in my 2nd<\/sup> semester I already had relevant modules like Finance and macroeconomics which helped me ace the interviews and I ended up accepting an offer for portfolio management equities at Berenberg<\/a> \u2013 the oldest private bank in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even before I started studying Business Administration at Frankfurt School, I was sure that I wanted to gain practical experience as soon as possible. This can be achieved through internships or working student positions. The biggest challenge for me as a foreigner was to find a suitable internship that matched my skillset and fulfilled my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":29898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,1221,39],"tags":[181,351,1968],"class_list":["post-29881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bachelor","category-bachelor-of-science-bba","category-study","tag-international-student","tag-internship","tag-work-and-study"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29881"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29903,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29881\/revisions\/29903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.frankfurt-school.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}