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Summer jobs gained through AIESEC are designed to provide practical experience in business for students who have had some theoretical training in economics or commerce. The nature of the jobs varies widely. Although some jobs are no more than clerical work in a foreign language, many provide an over-all glimpse of one company's entire operations...
...Other AIESEC jobs provide practical experience in a student's specialty. One junior worked for the Swiss Bank Corporation in Zurich, where he spent the entire summer in the office of financial advice, counselling clients on the desirability of specific stock purchases. Similarly, an economics major did financial research for a small mutual funds firm in Lille, France. At the end of his traineeship he prepared a 40-page report on the prospects for investment in one of France's major steel companies...
...AIESEC traineeships in Africa have the particular advantage of offering a general look at business in an entire country. For instance, one senior who worked for the United Africa Company made an on-the-spot survey of advertising media throughout Nigeria...
...students on an AIESEC traineeship receives a salary sufficient to cover his local living expenses but each trainee must pay for his own transportation to the foreign country...
...Harvard students going abroad this summer were able to choose their country of work from a list of 38 participating countries. Besides all of Western Europe, AIESEC operates in Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Japan, Korea and most of South America. The Secretary-General of the organization is presently negotiating to arrange traineeships in Poland. An international engineering program has already sent several students to Polish state 'firms...