How to find an internship in Beijing.

[JohnMotto]

Hello,

My name is Ben and I currently live in North Carolina. I am pursuing an undergraduate business degree and I speak fluent Mandarin and English. I want to do an internship next summer in Beijing, perferably a paid internship. And I was wondering if such thing even existed for American students in Beijing?

I do have some friends in Beijing but no one in the business industry. I am looking to get an internship in the finance, marketing, or consulting industry. I have a solid resume with good work experiences and top grades.

But I have no idea how to go about doing this? Most of the internships that I googled up was for teaching English somewhere and I have no interest in that.

So any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks

Ben

[littleknight23]

Ben, if your Chinese is good enough, I think it will be easy.

www.51job.com

www.chinahr.com

The two top human resources websites of China.

Register and create two resumes, one in Chinese and the other in English

The point is to use the search engine: input the keywords such as “外贸”　“国际贸易” …（both in English keywords such as “international trade”）you will find lots of positions for you!

Many companies just want to get a stuff with enough English skill, so if your Chinese is enough, you will find it easy.

Any more questions, just contact me at littleknight23@yahoo.com (both messenger and email)

[lily_spring88]

Dear Ben,

then you are an American? also can speak fluent Mandarin? how do you do that?

you are great.

yes, there are intership jobs can be payed. Just try to look up in this website:

www.foreignhr.com ( the special website for the foreigner to find job in China)

if need any more, pls talk to me on msn: mermaid19821113@hotmail.com

[imron]

then you are an American? also can speak fluent Mandarin? how do you do that?

Believe it or not, non-Chinese are capable of learning Mandarin. It's called studying

[JohnMotto]

Oh hi guys, both of my parents are Chinese although basically all my schooling were done in the states here, but I took time and sort of never forgotten my Chinese as I speak at home often.

We also have a huge Chinese community here and Chinese is actually offered in public schools from elementary to high school so it is very easy to foster that link. But I know quite a few Americans here that speak fluent Chinese.

[JohnMotto]

Also, I translated my resume from English to Chinese, however somethings didn't come out right.

Can someone be kind enough to take a look at it?

[heifeng]

then you are an American? also can speak fluent Mandarin? how do you do that?

I think we need to revive this thread

[gougou]

You could check out the chambers. The American never seems to have much, but the German chamber always has a lot of offers.

[JohnMotto]

Hi guys,

Here is my resume, there are a few I am not sure how it to translate into Chinese properly. I did translate it but they ended up sounding really weird and I don't know how to type in Chinese so that makes even hard as I have to input everyword in BabelFish and try to make it sound okay. I took out the personal details as this is a public forum. I highlighted the sections that I am having problems with.

Objective: To secure a 2008 summer position in Beijing, China.

Summary: Highly innovative and entrepreneurial individual; found own business at age 15 and successfully establish the business as a solid entity within two years. Extremely hardworking and dedicated; welcomes new challenges head-on. Handles responsibilities and react to stressful environments well.

Education

High School, 2003- 2007

• Graduated with 8 Advance Placement courses

University, 2007- Present Day

• Management Major

Experiences

PR Company, Intern, September-present day

- handled marketing and business development accounts for small to mid-sized gaming companies

- researched and anlyazed market trend and epxectations

Commerical Real Estate Company, September-present day, Intern

- gathered data on the valuation of properties in the state

- prepared legal documents

Clothing Co, December 2005-Present Day

- Started the business at 15 with $2,000 initial investment

- Successfully managed and established an E-commerce website

- Grow the website and company to be worth more than $100,000

- Earned in $45,000 in total revenue in the last 6 months

Pressure washing, summer 2006 & 2007

- Started landscaping and pressure washing business over the summers of 2006 and 2007

- Used unique low-cost marketing techniques

- Secured over 39 jobs around the triangle; earning over $2,000

Intern, Business School, March 2006- Present day

- Worked in the Urban Investment Strategies Center under the direction of Dr. Johnson Jr.

- Gathered and analyzed economics data for research

Captain, Rugby Club, 2006-2007

- Played rugby junior and senior years in high school

- State Champions 2006 and 2007; undefeated 2006 and 9-1 record in 2007

College Clubs: High School Clubs:

Men Rugby Club Honor Council

Entrepreneurs’’ Club History Club

Work Skills

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Mandarin Chinese- Fluent, can read, write, and speak

Thanks for all the help!

[aditthana]

Hi Ben,

So,

How your internship plan going on I really wonder what you r doing now.

All the best

[JohnMotto]

Its going good, I got several companies interested but no final offer yet, and I was told that I can expect something to finalize in when it is closer to the summer, but I think if everything go well, I should end up working in Beijing this summer.