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Behind the Scenes: The Interns’ Project

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Guest author Noemi, the current editorial office intern in our Content & Communications Department, reports on an essential part of her internship experience at InterNations.

A video presentation of intern life at InterNations
— as created by our interns themselves

The interns’ project has been created for us to be more courageous and to take more responsibility.”

During their journey at InterNations, interns have the chance to take part in at least one interns’ project and make an impact on the company. Being an intern myself, I have been working on a charity program recently, and I would like to tell you in more depth what the interns’ project in general — and our most recent one in particular — is all about.

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Behind the Scenes: The InterNations Cities across Europe

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The company behind InterNations, the world’s biggest global expat community, is sometimes mistaken for a US American business or even for a multinational corporation with a branch office in every country. While the latter might be an aspirational goal to strive for, we’re not quite there yet.

On our website and our app, we do feature 420 online communities around the world. In most of these cities, we also offer our members the opportunity to meet in person, thanks to our InterNations Ambassadors and Consuls. As the face of InterNations on a local level, these particular members dedicate their time on a voluntary basis, organizing official events and activities to bring expats and global minds from Abu Dhabi to Zurich together.

In fact, InterNations — the company, not the community — was originally “made in Germany”, and most employees are still based there. However, we now have offices in four European cities. Find out more about the InterNations locations here!

The InterNations Team in exploration mode…
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Behind the Scenes: Impressions and Insights from NWX 2019

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Last Thursday, our team members Theresa (Head of Business Solutions) and Christa (Team Lead Human Resources) started their working day in a most unusual manner: Together with the Monteverdi Choir Hamburg and 1,500 other people, they performed Beethoven’s famous “Ode to Joy” in the “Elphi”, Hamburg’s spectacular new concert hall.

The spectacular location on Hamburg’s waterfront
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Women in Management: A Closer Look at InterNations

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International Women’s Day, on 8 March, is an occasion to celebrate women’s achievements, but also to look at areas where there’s still room for improvement.

In Germany, the percentage of women in management (i.e. members of management boards and managing directors) is being widely discussed: the current share of 29% is somewhat below the EU average (34%).

Frankly, InterNations doesn’t do any better than the average German company, though we don’t perform any worse, either. If we count our two founders and co-CEOS as regular members of our management board, three of ten board members are women. At 30%, this corresponds more or less to the national average.

The women on our management board are anything but average, though, and they have a lot to share about leadership in general, as well as women and leadership in particular.

In Germany, fewer than three out of ten managers are women.
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