As an a la carte service, Eurointerns picks an internship company according to the aspiring intern’s qualifications, level of language and interests. Some of the most popular professional sectors are: marketing, graphic arts, EFL, international relations, finance, law, journalism, NGOs and tourism.
In addition to internships Eurointerns offers:
- optional language courses for students whose second language needs a boost to reach an acceptable intermediate level for their internship
- accommodation referral service for participants who do not want to bother finding their own housing
- full-coverage accident and health insurance
- airport transfers
- a theme-week program for those with less time who want to study language around an engaging theme or activity like hiking the Route to Santiago, Flamenco, cinema, etc.
Program Coordinator, Mila Moreno explained, "If you 're looking for something in your career that you 're having a hard time finding, or you 're knocking on doors and they 're not opening, an internship might be the next step for you. You can do an internship at any point in your career and any time of year. We work mostly in Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Marbella, Brussels and Turin, Genoa or Bologna in Italy."
Participant testimonies have been good. Below are three examples illustrating different possible intern objectives. 
Initial introduction into a chosen career field
Patricia Uli who interned in fashion in Madrid states, "Internships can pay off, even if it's unpaid. An internship is a good way to get you out of a tough spot in your career. Often people look at internships as simply unpaid labour, but in fact, they are a great way to get a foot in the door in an industry that would otherwise be out of reach to you." Internships allow you to change fields James Sicilia will be starting law school in the fall. But he has taken an internship in a Madrid law practice where they focus on environmental issues. Sicilia sees the internship as essential to making himself employable: "My degree is in political science and I want to study law." he says. "So I can 't just get into the environmental sector with that degree." He is well aware that today, just having a degree is not enough to get a choice job in your field. Eighty percent of students have an internship under their belt by the time they graduate, and it is very difficult to get into a new field without having some type of experience, "Sicilia says. "You have to meet people in your field to get some references and some experience." Internships give you a chance to reintroduce yourself into a field A good internship is structured so that you learn about the field and about yourself. This option is especially good for someone who graduated from college a while ago and does not fit the profile that the most structured internship programs are looking for. If you have a good sense of the skills you bring to the table, and a good sense of the skills you would like to learn, you will be able to make your age work to your advantage. Additionally, an internship gives you a way to test the waters to see if this is really the right fit for you now. Research from Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard, shows that humans are particularly bad at predicting what we will enjoy. As we are very poor at predicting what life will really be like for us, we need to try a lot of paths for a career before we know what is really a good fit. So you could say that internships are a perfect workplace adaptation to the human condition of personal ignorance as well as a way to keep us resilient -- we are able to convince ourselves to look forward to life.
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