International trainees are a big success
- International understanding, new ideas and global insight are all crucial to a business wishing to be globally competitive
About 3,000 international students are enrolled at CBS. Many of them need traineeships and want to work in Denmark but to some, it is very hard to get a traineeship at a Danish company. Most of them have to return to their home country once their studies have ended - without any practical experience.
Extension of the studies
- To many of the students, it means an extension of their studies as they have to get a traineeship in their home country in order to fulfil the study requirements. It is unfortunate, says Senior Advisor Finn Kjerulff from CBS Career Center.
It has especially affected CBS's MBA and double degree students, who in their studies have developed competences to cope with market challenges today and in the future.
Rewarding for both parties
The communications agency Essencius is one of the businesses hiring international trainees from CBS. And it is a great success.
- We are an international business, and we benefit from the international students' input, not to mention their linguistic and cultural competences, which we find useful in negotiating with partners in different countries. It has made it easier to make agreements in the respective countries, easier to find translators, easier to gain knowledge about the local markets and so on, says Brian Orland, partner at Essencius.
For instance, the communications agency has established 4-5 cooperation agreements in Italy, where negotiations were primarily conducted by the trainees.
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Essencius
The communications agency has so far had 4 trainees from India, 6 from China, 6 from Italy, 1 from Denmark and 2 from France. The trainees have ranged from MBA and double degree students to graduate and undergraduate students.