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Internship / Placement Abroad

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  • 20-06-2013 9:01am
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    harry92
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭


    Hi there,

    I am a Mechanical Engineering student going into my 4th year of college in UCD and we have a paid placement opportunity next January for 5 - 8 months. Personally I want to travel abroad for the experience.

    I will go anywhere really but I have heard of a lot of Irish engineers getting jobs near the mines and in project based work in Australia & Dubai and other places where they earn crazy money working the 3 weeks on, 1 week off shifts.

    My question is this:
    Does anyone know if they run internship programs? Or do you have to be a fully qualified and graduated engineer?

    Any help would be much appreciated.
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    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,211 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    You seem to be caught up in the fact that these lads are earning "crazy money".

    As an intern (and I'm talking the american version of the word) you will be lucky to get your costs covered.

    I was lucky enough to get a job in New York in 3rd year of college. I didn't apply as an intern so wasn't paid like one. Worked out well for me but that was when money was free flowing.

    By all means apply for jobs abroad but maybe kerb your expectations salary wise


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    brandon_flowers
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    You won't get crazy money anywhere as an intern and you certainly won't have any fly in fly out type jobs available as an intern. If you are interested in this crazy money then do your internship in one of those industries i.e. oil/mining.

    For this your best bet is Aberdeen, it is full of internship opportunities in places like BP, JP Kenny, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Technip etc. You will get the experience required to regain a job with a company once you have graduated. Forget about crazy money for the first few years, you need experience before anyone decides to pay you more money than you deserve.


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