Engineering & Business Internships in China with Mentoring

It was a thrilling 9 weeks working experience in Shanghai (China) where I pursued my internship program. CIP program was incredibly helpful, understanding and flexible as far as career development is concerned.
Working with a reputable investment company in Shanghai, served as a career path and most importantly, encouraged me to express myself which has helped me view things in a different way. On the job skills gained are: assisting to review client’s assets, attending to client assets needs, asset valuation and revaluation, assisting the team with expenditure planning, performing client database maintenance and other related duties.
I’m very excited to have made such a journey and also, thank CIP for such opportunity. Don’t be surprised if you see me here in China again?

My guiding principle as a student is to search for avenues to build a unique career development journey. Having such thought encouraged me to apply for an internship program in China. China is an ideal destination because of its current economic performance (2nd worldwide) and rich cultural heritage.
Leaving home for the first time was not an easy task but friends and family motivated me in making such decision a reality. Quick visa processing, the nice accommodation, visit ancient historical sites, meeting new people, office events and parties made my stay memorable.
Assigned to the marketing dept during my internship added a lot of practical experience to my classroom knowledge. I almost worked independently after few weeks been introduced to the job. Some functions performed were performing market analysis and research on competition, prepare a promotional presentation, assist distribute marketing materials, data entry and update company database and customer relationship management systems (CRM), support daily administrative tasks, etc.
Nothing will make me happier than to come back again. Thanks.

The current economic growth in China played a key role in my decision of coming to China for my internship. As a Finance student, I needed such platform to explore financial solutions to problems at hand.
With the help with CIP, I got my visa on time and arrived in Beijing, China for the internship. Accommodation and other services met my expectation. Also, included in the program was other social activities built to give maximum exposure and immersion.
Among some of my duties as financial analyst intern were as follows: reconciling transactions, performing cost analysis, assisting the team in determining the cost of operations by establishing standard costs, performing financial analysis on data, filing, data entry, and other related tasks.
I gained a lot of practical experience in China and hope to return as a full-time worker.

It’s a great experience to begin your career life in a country like China. Currently, is the world second largest economy and also, attracting a lot of multinational companies in the country.
Am glad I took such decision of coming to China for my internship. Visa processes, Insurance, and others went smoothly with the assistance of CIP Team. Accommodation and my entire stay in China were pretty much okay. Visited a lot of tourist sites, had a reputable company for my internship, enjoy Chinese Cuisines and importantly, made a lot of Native friends in China.
As an accounting intern with a Beijing prestigious firm, I performed a lot of tasks, namely, filing and scanning documents, helping with bank statements reconciliation, account receivables, and payables, assist the team to perform physical inventory (semi-annual), support the payment processing team, help with the month-end financial reports, and many other related duties.
I loved everything so much that I intend to come back for a permanent job. This is an excellent avenue given to ALL International Students and a great platform to make new friends (work place).
I loved it. Family and friends will hear about it.

As the saying goes “first instincts always the best”. Often, you'll hear people say that you should "trust your instincts" when making decisions. Being in a dilemma as to where to do my intern abroad program really got to me.
I’m Joseph (citizen of USA) and had the privilege to undertake a 2 months internship program in Shanghai, China. At the beginning, I was offered a similar program in Hong Kong but my gut instincts opt for Shanghai, China. The busy vibrant city with its unique riverside and financial Hub is one of the most wanted places everyone should be. My 9 weeks internship in Shanghai will be one of the unforgettable memories in my life.
I count myself very lucky to be an intern in an Accounting Firm in Shanghai, directly working with the General Manager (for that matter). As accounting intern in the Tax Department, some of my roles included assembling and organizing clients information, preparing reports that highlight the expected results of tax returns, input client data, reconciling final tax returns with expected results, among others.
I see myself “on-top” with the new skills acquired.
At the beginning, family and friends did not come to terms with my decision of traveling abroad for an internship but upon return home, they appreciated such decision.
Sincerely, I must confess, coming to China (Beijing) had opened a lot of career opportunities for me.
As HR Intern with a multinational company, I had a fascinating but “human face” approach of dealing with issues. Understanding and appreciating your personnel is an important tool for organization success.
I worked at the firm for 3 months and during my internship, I learnt many things – namely, working with the HR Team to prepare job description, filing, posting recruitments on job boards, taking minutes at meeting, assist resolving employees complaints, observing interview sections and notifying interviewees – selected and not selected, writing and circulating memos, etc.
In addition, the corporate dinners and other evening entertainment events were incredibly unforgettable. I cherished every moment spent in Beijing.
Recommending people is the least thing I can do as beneficiary. I would recommend this program to anyone interested in developing his/her career abroad.
Thanks, CIP; thanks to my internship accounting firm; thanks, Shanghai; and lastly, thanks, China.

In this world, making a bold decision comes with a reward. I must confess, it was not easy taking this huge decision but as the saying goes “the end justifies the means”.
My 2 months internship in Shanghai was a stunning experience and very glad China was my first Asia country to begin. Permit me to express my deepest gratitude to CIP Team for their tremendous assistance in ensuring my accommodation, visa and internship job in China. Working among the dedicated workforce of Asset Management Team added more practical value to my academic knowledge. As an intern I was trained to analzse contract information, asset depreciations, write cost reports, issue payments due and purchase order, manage inventory, assists in the renegotiation exercise of customer contracts among others.
This has been the best experience of my life so far away from home. The creamy part of it all is that one gets to travel to historic places, meeting affable people and eating delicious traditional and continental cuisines.
To ALL friends and family, I say – make a bold decision now and move your career to the next level.

Hospitality, they say, is the key to customer satisfaction. One of the most defining moments in my life is my desire to pursue a hotel management internship in China. Regardless of the geographical distance, I was very poised on embarking such memorable career development journey. The internship placement, I must say was impressive with lots of overseas experiences.
As Guest Relations Personnel, I was trained to make our clients feel welcome and ensure their comfortable and enjoyable stay at our hotel. In addition, I felt in love with the meticulous nature of the job and importantly, establish a friendly relationship with ALL.
Pursuing such an internship broadened my horizon by making me realize that the industry heavily relies entirely on customers “being happy” even when they were at fault.
I’m very blessed to have the chance to work and live in such a captivating city like Shanghai, China and will always recommend this program to friends and family looking forward to developing their career professionally.

This is a program I very much liked compared to all other internship programs I considered during my search. I graduated with a bachelor in International Business and Trade and would like to do my Master degree but I was keen to getting some corporate experience before continuing.
I knew this is really a step out of comfort zone because I needed to man up and grow some amount of self confidence and trust in my good-self. I wanted to be sure I was not a corporate misfit. I also was serious to make sure that I did not have too much theories without skills.
My internship placement was staged in a shanghai company with an investment banking company located at the center of the city. I liked this company because though I was a marketing student, I got to understand the operation of financial companies especially services.
Before my arrival into China, CIP arranged a conversation between me and the HR manager of my prospective host company. Our discussions were based around my role as an Intern. Have done minored Finance, I felt I could also use the opportunity to practice investment banking. So I had a mixed role of marketing financial instruments and projects as well as evaluating organizations for corporate takeovers and infrastructural investment. I also learnt what it takes to invest into china especially regarding very sensitive sectors.
As part of the program, we had 3 days set aside for entrepreneurial training for all interns. OMG !!! I loved it. We had representatives of several organizations practically teach us how to set up a business as an expat in China and the procedure is very simple with the few tactics we were taught. I will not share that here but I will encourage Interns to choose CIP’s program because of their entrepreneurial training. This is not only relevant in Chinese context but could be applied elsewhere.
Coming out of this program, I will surely recommend it to intern irrespective of their field of study because you get more than just an experience.