Expand your professional experience in Asia

Author: Colleen Wilcox

Img 4125He Duan interned at IBM in Shanghai over the summer of 2018

Notre Dame International offers students the opportunity to learn firsthand how businesses and organizations operate all over the world. Through unpaid internships, students can participate in this nearly five-week workplace engagement program. The Global Professional Experience Program currently places students with businesses and organizations in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

“The GPE program provides students with an opportunity to gain professional and international work experience at a company we place them with,” says Hong Zhu, director of global engagement programs at Notre Dame International.

“This program allows students to have an immersive cultural experience through a workplace, provides students with professional experiences related to their academic and professional interests, and helps students with their career discernment and personal growth.”

Click here for the full list of host organizations and corporations. Participants from the Summer 2018 program reflect on their experience and how it’s enhancing their academic and professional endeavors. Click on the page below to read their stories.

Global Professional Experience Program

Originally published by Colleen Wilcox at beijing.nd.edu on August 07, 2018.