Vancouver Internships.ca manages the paid and unpaid internship and work experience programs for ESL schools and career colleges around Metro Vancouver. We handle placements in every field, for every length of time above 4 weeks, and provide detailed visa support to you, your staff, and your agents.

In addition to providing placements, we also provide several value added services, like interview and resume preparation.

Where other outsourcing companies treat ESL schools as a marketing channel - we see you as our most important client and we do everything we can to serve your needs and the needs of your students.

VancouverInternships has three programs:

Paid Professional Internship - this is open to university students in their third year of studies, or workers with 2 years of recent related experience. Students and workers must intern in their profession. We offer placements in Information Technology, Office Administration (incuding marketing), Bookkeeping, Hospitality Management - and starting in 2010 - Engineering. Interns work for a minimum of 6 months, and they must have Cambridge FCE level English by the time their internship begins. Interns receive a living allowance of between $200 and $350 per week.

Unpaid Internship - open to students and young workers who have completed high school. Interns are placed with companies in dozens of industries, from finance, to marine biology. The goal of these internships is training. Placements can be from 4 weeks to 6 months.

Working Holiday - this is our Casual Work Experience Program - these are job placements at resorts, cafes, restaurants, supermarkets, and shops in Vancouver, and around western Canada. Placements are done before your students arrive in Canada. The minimum term is 16 weeks, the maximum is the same as the length of your student's visa. Young workers usually make between $8 and $10 per hour.

Monitoring is an important aspect of internship and work experience programs: both for quality control, and for marketing purposes. We engage in close monitoring of all interns thorughout their period of work. This monitoring includes on-line reports to be completed by the intern and the host company, site visits done by our staff, follow-up visits with the internship host, and a letter of reference from the host. In many cases, we also collect video testimonials from the intern - these are done at the intern's host company, mid-way through their internship.

All materials produced during monitoring - including host reference letters and videos, are available for your marketing purposes.

In the rare circumstance where monitoring uncovers an issue between an intern and their host company, we move to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Most problems can be solved by discussion - though when required, we will re-place an intern at another company at no additional charge.

If you represent a Languages Canada accredited language school, we are interested in working with you. Whether you have an established internship program, or are just considering setting one up - we can help.

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