Internships in Canary Islands

  Spain

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Las Palmas (de Gran Canaria),  Puerto de la Cruz,  Santa Cruz de Tenerife,  Canary Islands,  Santa Cruz

Term: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter 
Length of Position: 3 to 6 months
Dates: Any time during the year

Description: Hotel on Lanzarote, internship for reception
Hotel on Tenerife, internship for reception/administration
Hotel on Fuerteventura, internship for bar/restaurant/maintenance
Hotel on Lanzarote, internship for kitchen/bar/restaurant
Hotel on Fuerteventura, internship for reception/bar/restaurant

These are just some examples of our wide-ranged offer of hotel internships on the Canary Islands. We dispose a large list of our partner schools' internships. We offer internships appropriate to the students' language skills and personal preference. Please apply by means of our online application.

You pass your internship where others spend their holidays. Under palms inclusive sun, beach and the sea, one of the most attractive holiday resorts in Europe. Ideal for students of tourism who want to gain first job experience amidst a holiday metropolis. Also in your free time you will certainly learn to discover and to love the beauty of those islands. The Canary Islands offer the whole year through splendid temperatures which entice you to many outdoor activities.

We guarantee you an internship in a hotel of the upper class category. Our partner hotels have exclusively 4 or 5 stars and vaunt with international awards. Internships in a hotel of the upper category constitutes a great enrichment for each curriculum and sooner or later this will be very important to bear up at the European job market.

We manage recruitment and pre-selection of trainees for the hotels and save the students the endless writing of applications. Maybe you have already written some letters of application and not yet received confirmation. From experience it is very difficult to find an appropriate internship in Spain without connections. So we take a lot of your work. You just have to send us the online application as well as an attachment with your curriculum in English or Spanish including an application photo.

Highlights: Internship in hotels and restaurant including an intensive language course on Tenerife - your key to success!

The world grows together and it becomes more and more important to gain work experience abroad. Doing an internship in a foreign country, you do not only perfect your language skills but also gain worthwhile insights into a foreign world of labor. These additional skills are of vital importance especially in the restaurant and hotel business branch and are crucial to your later employment opportunities.

Send us your application - we organize your internship including an intensive language course on Tenerife, one of the most popular tourist destinations with sunshine guaranteed all year round.

We offer you:
- 12 and 26 weeks internship in a hotel on Tenerife or one of the other Canary Islands with a daily working time of eight hours
- an intensive Spanish course with the focus on restaurant and hotel business and a duration of four weeks in advance
- free accommodation and food at the hotel
- organized trips and common activities (salsa lessons,surf,flamenco, breakfast, volleyball,excursions,etc.)
- support and assistance, e.g. with authorities

Qualifications: The prerequisites for an internship are:
- aged between 18 and 30
- status of a student or apprentice with more than 50% of your course served
- working experience or apprenticeship in the area of restaurant or hotel business
- good knowledge of Spanish and/or English
- has a health and accident insurance
- you have to be a citizen of the European Union.

Cost in US$: Fee for arranging the internship: 355USD - (295 USD with course)

- We assure that your application is sent in an appropriate way
- We discuss your wishes with the respective company in advance
- We arrange an accommodation for you and bring you there
- We offer language courses which prepare you for working in the firm
- We take you to your company and present you to your supervisor
- We assure you a certificate in three languages
- We offer a language test at the end of your internship and issue a formal certificate of your state of Spanish
- We are always there for you. Via phone, e-mail or personally. In case of an emergency please contact our 24/7 hotline.

Salary / Pay: All our partner companies will pay at least 355 USD per month. Except the hotels will pay a smaller allowance or sometimes nothing, because they always provide free accommodation and board for the interns during their whole internship.

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to European Participants.

Participants Travel to Spain Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Resume
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Job and Internship Network

Year Founded: 2000