In this day and age, you’ll need a lot more than a high GPA and a few weeks of volunteer experience to get the job of your dreams. If you have your heart set on getting an international business internship, here’s a handful of tips and advice for finding the right international internship for business students.

In preparation for your application to an international business internship, take some time to research all of the large multinational corporation with offices in your area. There’s a good chance that you know somebody with connections on the inside, and in many cases these individuals would be only too happy to help you get your foot in the door. Naturally, you’ll want to approach businesses that are best suited to your education and/or work experience.

Government agencies offer excellent opportunities for young people to gain international business experience. Sometimes, the best international internships can be found with a government agency. If you intend to apply for an internship with the Consulate Offices abroad, it would be a good idea to explore their website for information regarding international internships. Business associations provide another great opportunity to research and learn more about international business internships. The chamber of commerce, for instance, can help you identify local businesses with an international presence.

Expatriate networks and student alumni groups provide another opportunity to gain meaningful, actionable feedback regarding international internships. Hopefully, you haven’t lost touch with all of the connections you made while in college. They are the people who can likely help you the most. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are wonderful tools for staying connected with former classmates and colleagues.

If you have the resources available to you, why not consider traveling to the country of your choice and try to line up an internship in person. Most employers will appreciate your commitment their cause, when they learn that you traveled half-way around the world to pursue an international business internship with their company. Give it a try, why don’t you? What have you got to lose?

Finding a translation service can be daunting. Where does one start to look for a translation service and when they find one, how do they know if they will be able to do the job well? What questions should one ask? This article will offer some useful tips on how to find a translation service to meet your needs.

Where to find a translation service?

There are three main ways of finding a translation service.
The first port of call should be your local directory such as the Yellow Pages. If you have a specific business directory for your area then even better. Simply look up “translation” or it may sometimes be under “translators & interpreters”. Have thumb through the listings and earmark some to contact.

The second, and easiest, means of finding a translation service is through the internet. Using the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN can bring up hundreds of listings. One added advantage of using a search engine is that you can be more specific with your searches. For example, if you are looking for a translation service local to you type “translation service London” or “translation service Oxford”. Similarly if you are in need of a specific language try something like “German translation service”.

With search engine results you will be presented with two types of listings, paid listings (advertisements) and organic listings (non-advertised results). It is good to bear in mind that those with organic listings are there for a reason, i.e. the search engine naturally sees them as important sites for translation services. On the other hand paid listings will be from companies that need the business. This is not necessarily a negative thing but good to consider when making a choice.

Contacting the translation service

Once you have a list of the translation service providers you want to contact, it is then key that you are prepared with information necessary to get an accurate quote.

Any decent translation service will want to know what languages they are translating from and into, the length of the document (especially the number of source words), the nature of the text (is it business or technical?), the format of the document (is it a paper document, an email or brochure?), when you need the translation delivered by and if necessary what format it should be delivered in. These details will help the translation service price your piece of work. However, remember that many translation service providers may not give you a concrete quote until they see the document. This is because once they see it they may realise they under-quoted you due to unforeseen elements such as the format, poor image quality or technicality of the document. It is always a good idea to have your translation in a format that can be emailed or faxed.

When speaking to the customer service agent make sure you thoroughly explain your needs. A good translation service however will always ask the right questions so they get a decent grasp of what you will need.

Questions to ask the translation service

Once you have established the cost of your translation it is always a good idea to probe the translation service with a few more questions to gain a better understanding of their capabilities. These questions for your translation service should give you some insight into their understanding of the industry and their capabilities.

Which translation service?

Ultimately for many people, when it comes to the crunch they choose a translation service based on cost, location and speed of service. There are no hard and fast rules as to how to choose a translation service and it is really up to the individual to go with what they feel it best for them.

In the general scheme of things most translation service providers are bona fide and professional outfits. If when asking the questions above to a translation service you sense a level of uncertainty then it may be best to go with the service that seems to know what you want and how to give it to you.

If you want to be a teacher, you need to get a teaching degree. You can either go to a brick-and-mortar college, or you can enter the virtual learning world and earn your degree through distance learning. Distance learning is being implemented in schools, colleges and other learning environments more all the time, and perhaps distance learning would prepare you better for the future of education than a traditional college would.

You need a teaching degree to enter the teaching profession, but you will need a masters degree to continue in it. Teachers are life-long learners, and you will want to take classes to keep up to date and improve you teaching skills as long as you have a teaching career. Distance learning, teaching jobs, and continuing your education go together because you can learn while you are involved in a teaching job.

Distance Learning and the Teaching Profession

Distance learning is changing the way teaching is done. Many schools are making online classes available to help homeschoolers and to help high school students meet graduation requirements.

Some teachers use distance learning to individualize instruction for children who have learning disabilities or other special needs. Children who have illnesses that keep them out of school can keep up with their classmates through distance learning.

Some schools are implementing distance learning as part of the normal school structure. Classroom instruction is only one part of the total learning plan for any given subject. Distance learning broadens the learning environment into the home, and parents have more opportunities to be involved, which improves the child’s learning. The City of London, England, for example, has established the LGfL (London Grid for Learning), which links schools and children across the city to provide quality online education.

Distance Learning Teaching Jobs

As distance learning becomes more popular and more integrated into our culture, it is becoming a teaching specialty. Currently, schools usually have teachers prepare lessons for the classroom and for online or distance learning. Distance learning requires a different set of skills than classroom learning does, and lesson preparation for distance learning has to take that into account. Specialized educational training in the theory, principles and practice of distance learning may earn you a distance learning teaching job.