Internships within Canada

Career Edge
A private sector not-for-profit organization offering 6, 9, or 12 month internships to recent graduates of university, college and high school. All internships are within Canada.

Department of Heritage Internships (2500 Internships available each year)
Young Canada Works (YCW) sponsors opportunities with employers through six components: four provide summer placements for high school and post-secondary students; two components are for unemployed college and university graduates. Many of the opportunities are within Canada.

International Internships

Government of Canada
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Internships (DFAIT),
Youth International Internship Program (YIIP)
A paid career-related international work experience program that furthers the objectives of Canada's foreign policy. More youth programs administered through DFAIT (for people up to 35 years of age)

• Working Holiday Programs: Travel to one of the program countries and have the option to engage in short-term work to supplement your travel expenses.
• Student Work Abroad Program (SWAP): SWAP is a program sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Students and administered by the Federation's travel company, Travel Cuts. Through this program, Canadian university and college students can work and travel in other countries. SWAP operates working holiday programs in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
• Young Workers' Exchange Programs: This program allows Canadian participants to gain professional work experience through overseas training. Participants have the opportunity to acquire new skills while gaining a better appreciation of the culture and values of their host country.
• Other International Youth Programs: This section provides details about the international exchange programs managed by Canadian partner organizations.
• CO-OP Education Programs: This initiative provides students with an opportunity to gain valuable experience related to their current academic field of study and helps prepare them for a successful transition from school to the working world.

Canadian Centre for Minority Affairs
The program is aimed at providing young Canadians with first paid career-related opportunities in an international environment. This program is operated in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), private, public and non-governmental organizations in Canada and the Eastern Caribbean.

(CIDA) Canadian International Development Agency Internships
Over 300 funded Internships listed. You can search by country, title, sector status, or by Canadian organization.

Canadian Youth Employment Strategy
Internships listed in the categories of: Science and Technology, International, First Nations and Inuit, and Summer Student Placements.

Youth Internship Canada (YIC)
Ages 15-30
The three programs are, Youth International, Individual Youth Internship Canada and Youth Entrepreneurship. Projects encourage active partnership between the private and voluntary sectors and other levels of government, to work together in creating employment opportunities for young Canadians.

Federal Public Sector Youth Internship Program
Ages 15-30
Sponsored by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and delivered in partnership with the YMCA, the Federal Public Sector Youth Internship Program places interns in host federal government Departments, Agencies and Crown Corporations for 9 month terms. Its main objective is to enable unemployed or under-employed young Canadians to acquire the experience and skills they need to enter and fully participate in the labour market.

Science Horizon Youth Internship Program (Environment Canada)
A collaborative effort with Canadian universities, the private sector and provinces and territories that offers promising young scientists and post-secondary graduates hands-on experience working on environmental projects under the mentorship and coaching of experienced scientists and program managers.

CANADEM (Canadian Resource Bank for Democracy and Human Rights)
Internship assignments promote human rights, gender equality, the building and consolidation of democratic institutions, environmental sustainability, health, education and the creation of societies that are more peaceful, open, and economically strong. Junior Professional Consultants work in a diverse and multi-cultural environment, and provide assistance to humanitarian efforts that address the needs of low-income people, refugees and displaced persons living in post-conflict zones and transition economies.

Netcorps Canada International
Ages 19-30 - 6 month commitment Đ unpaid Đ IT
Internships in developing countries to young adults with appropriate skills in information and communication technologies. These internships, of approximately six months, are implemented by some of Canada's largest volunteer-sending international development organizations including, Canada World Youth (lead), Alternatives, Canadian Crossroads International, the Canadian Society for International Health, CUSO, Human Rights Internet, Oxfam-QuŽbec and VSO - Canada in partnership with Industry Canada

(WUSC) World University Service of Canada
"Believes that all peoples are entitled to the knowledge and skills necessary to contribute to a more equitable world. Its mission is to foster human development and global understanding through education and training." There are several internships available.

AIESEC
(students of accounting, finance, economics, information systems, marketing, computer science, development, or engineering)
An international, non-political, non-profit, student-run, independent, educational organization. It is comprised of students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education who are interested in economics and management. The two main programs are: The International Traineeship Exchange Program (ITEP)'s objective is to promote cultural understanding through international work exchanges. As a university student or recent graduate, a traineeship of 8 to 78 weeks in one of 84 countries around the world allows you to develop a broader understanding of cultural, economic, business, and world issues. Cultural Envoy for Exchange Development (CEED) is a two-month exchange opportunity open to experienced members of AIESEC Canada. Each year, the CEED program sends these members to targeted developing countries where they help emerging AIESEC chapters to improve the quantity and quality of their exchanges.

Springtec International Consulting Inc
(50 positions in the Near and Far East)
These Internships are offered to individuals interested in pursuing careers in International Business, Engineering and Applied Sciences; Trade and Export Marketing, Project Management, and Institutional Development.

The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IASTE)
Full-time students ages 19-30
Students of engineering, technical sciences or technologies such as agriculture and forestry, can be placed abroad through AESTE Canada.

Canada World Youth
A national, non-governmental organization that provides young people from Canada and around the world with the opportunity to travel, live and work in different communities, to learn about local and international development, and to gain important job skills for the future.

International Health Youth Internship Programs
Recruits through CIDA and NetCorps

Environmental Youth Corp. (EYC)
Post-secondary graduates under the age of 30
The Canadian Council for Human Resources in the Environment Industry (CCHREI) is a not-for-profit corporation that assists the Canadian environment sectors in implementing sound human resource development policies.

Cultural Human Resources Council
The Youth Internship Program (YIP) will provide financial support to cultural organizations and businesses to enable them to hire young interns for a period of six months to help them develop skills which will enhance their job opportunities in new technology and in export marketing, and to help cultural organizations and businesses provide on-the-job learning experience for future cultural workers.

Canadian Unitarian Service Organization [CUSO]
CUSO is a Canadian organization that supports alliances for global social justice. We work with people striving for freedom, self-determination, gender and racial equality and cultural survival. We achieve our goals by sharing information, human and material resources, and by promoting policies for developing global sustainability.

Japan Exchange and Teaching Program [JET]
The Program is designed to invite foreign youth to Japan and provide them with opportunities to teach language, and sports at junior and senior high schools all over the Japan, or to engage in international exchange activities at local governments.

Katimavik - National Youth Service Program
Ages 17-21
Katimavik offers an opportunity to acquire valuable personal and professional skills through an alternative educational program. The Katimavik program is based on the concept of service learning - learning through volunteer work on community projects to which participants make a significant contribution.

The World Bank Group
Offers Junior Professionals, Young Professionals, and Knowledge Internship Programs

United Nations Headquarters Internship Program
The objective of the internship programme is threefold:

• to provide a framework by which graduate and post-graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds may be assigned to United Nations offices where their educational experience can be enhanced through practical work assignments;
• to expose them to the work of the United Nations; and
• to provide UN offices with the assistance of highly qualified students specialized in various professional fields.

Canada Switzerland Young Worker Exchange Program
Ages 18-35, bilingual
Designed for Canadians who wish to gain professional expertise in their field of studies in Switzerland.