Alumni outcomes show global internships enhance employability
, /PRNewswire/ — The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) and the Institute of International Education (IIE) this week published a research report entitled Standing out in a competitive market: The impact of a global internship on career readiness.
Using survey responses from individuals who completed an internship outside of their home country between 2013 and 2023, the research team studied the impact of a global internship experience on skills acquisition, future employment, and more. Survey respondents were global internship alumni from eight different internship providers and included both Americans who interned in a location outside the United States and international participants who interned in the United States.
Researchers found that participation in a global internship has an overall positive impact on the development of 21st-century job skills, with 81 percent of internship survey respondents indicating that participation in a global internship supported their development of a wide range of 21st-century job skills relevant to their professional and …