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.

Young Canada Works
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

International Experience Canada

If you are a Canadian citizen between the ages of 18 and 35, you can work legally for up to one year in many different countries? Whether it is to gain valuable international work experience or to finally take that trip of a lifetime youÕve always imagined, why not become one of more than 23,000 young Canadians who travel and work abroad each year.

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada has negotiated agreements with several countries and has partnered with various organizations to allow Canadians toÊeasily obtain a temporary work permit and gain professional and personal experience abroad.

(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.

Government of Canada - Internships
Ages 15-30
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.

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
Professional internship is the most intense learning experience that we offer and links together our global network. Each year, we provide over 5,500 members the challenging opportunity to live and work in a foreign country in areas of management, technology, education, and development.

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)
Work experience in the environmental profession. Post-secondary graduates under the age of 30
The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO Canada) 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.

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.