Employers
Are you looking for an intern for your company?
Since 2007, Israel Experience has placed over 1,200 interns in 800 leading organizations across Israel.
Applications are screened and accepted while abroad. The selection process includes interviews, medical forms, and references. Internship placement coordinators match candidates against your specific requests.
How to hire an intern:
Each Israel Experience intern is vetted by both our Registration Team and an experienced Internship Placement Coordinator to ensure they are the right fit for the program. Once the participant is accepted, they work one-on-one with an Internship Placement Coordinator to determine which internships are best for the intern.
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Acceptance Process
Each intern is carefully reviewed and vetted by the Registration Team and an experienced Internship Placement Coordinator to ensure they are a suitable fit for the program..
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Internship Selection and Matching
The coordinator provides the participant with a list of potential internships from their database, complete with detailed job and organization descriptions. The intern selects their top three choices, and the Placement Coordinator forwards their CV to the preferred company.
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Ongoing Support and Evaluation
If both the intern and the company agree it’s a good fit, the match is finalized, and the internship begins. Throughout the internship, the Internship Placement Coordinator remains in contact with the company to ensure all expectations are met.
What Are The Benefits To My Company In Hosting An Intern?
Acceptance
Each intern is carefully reviewed and vetted by the Registration Team and an experienced Internship Placement Coordinator to ensure they are a suitable fit for the program.
Onboarding
The coordinator provides the participant with a list of potential internships from their database, complete with detailed job and organization descriptions.
Selection
The intern selects their top three choices, and the Placement Coordinator forwards their CV to the preferred company.
Support
If both the intern and the company agree it's a good fit, the match is finalized, and the internship begins. Throughout the internship, the Internship Placement Coordinator remains in contact with the company to ensure all expectations are met.
How can you aid the interns?
Mentorship
The intern should be assigned a staff person who will be their point of contact at the internship and who has availability to mentor the intern. This is perhaps the most crucial piece to the internship’s success.
Weekly Check-In
The intern should have a meeting (ideally in person if not then by phone) with his mentor or project supervisor to go over the assignments, ask questions, etc. This meeting should be at the least a half-hour each week.
Projects and Tasks
The intern should have significant and meaningful tasks and assignments that are appropriate for his time frame in the company and language skills and that match what was discussed in his interview.
Workspace
Intern should have a designated workspace that is agreed upon before they begin working.
Transportation
Company should provide the intern with a chofshi chodshi to get to and from work.
Tips for hosting an intern
- Make the internship a fulfilling and enriching experience.
- Assign them a set mentor.
- Give them an overview of the company.
- Introduce them to all the other staff members.
- Meet with them individually to discuss skills and potential projects
- Provide them with all relevant materials that can prepare them.
- Set clear workdays, times and expectations.
- Take care of all logistical issues.
- Provide a clean and welcoming workspace for them.
- Set up their phone, email, and entry pass for the building beforehand.
FAQ
This information refers specifically to the Career Israel program. Israel Experience hosts various internship programs year-round, which may have different start dates, lengths, requirements, structure, participant profiles, etc. These programs are run for Spanish, Russian and French-speaking interns. If you are interested in hosting an intern with these language skills, please note this when filling out the Internship Description form.*
Career Israel is a professional internship program. Young, Jewish adults between the ages of 19-30 come from around the world to gain experience in their career paths. While they are on the program, we provide them with educational experiences to help them understand Israeli society and deepen their connection with the country. The program is run by Israel Experience, a subsidiary of the Jewish Agency, and our 5-month program is a Masa Israel Journey accredited program.
While our database has over 3,000 companies, we are always looking for new opportunities to work with great companies. Please keep in mind the majority of submissions are for marketing and social media, due to supply and demand, it’s less likely you will receive an intern for this field. If you want your company to stand out it’s important to make sure that you offer the intern the best internship experience. In addition to describing the work that they will do, make sure that in your form you also include the benefits of specifically working in your company. What meetings or conferences can they be involved in? What experiences will they get with you that they won’t get with anyone else?
The majority of participants from the 5-month programs have completed their first degree and are between the ages of 21-30. While most come from North America, we also have participants from South America, the UK, Russia, Australia and more! Our 2-month program cohort is almost exclusively, but not limited to, university students between the ages of 19-22, from North America.
All Israel Experience internships for tourists are unpaid. The only costs for your company are that of a monthly bus pass, per each month the intern is at your company. You are welcome to provide the intern with lunch or a 10bis card, but it is not required.
We provide two 5-month programs; our Fall session runs from August to January and our Spring session runs from January to June. In addition, we have a number of 2-month summer programs which run from June to August.
We provide the intern with housing, medical insurance (including workplace accidents), 24/7 staff support by madrichim, trips, educational seminars, ulpan, and an Internship Coordinator.
Our program requires the intern to work 28-35 hours per week. The company should decide with the intern how many days a week the intern should come into the office. (3 days – 9 hours, 4 days – 8 hours 5 days – 7 hours)
The interns have varying levels of Hebrew. Most have limited Hebrew, but there are some with higher levels and a few that are even fluent.
