5 Things to Know About Global Entrepreneur and Why You Should Definitely Do it

Interested in filling your holiday with useful experience and extraordinary opportunities? Not sure whether to travel or spend your time being productive and take part-time or internship? Why not both? Through our all-exciting Global Entrepreneur experience, you can both journey to new places and improve your professional skills through six to twelve weeks of work in a challenging startup companies. Read on to learn more!

What is it?

If you know the basics about Global Volunteer, then understanding Global Entrepreneur wouldn’t be much of a hassle. To put simply, Global Entrepreneur or GE is an opportunity for you to have amazing professional experience in other countries. Through GE, you may learn to develop both your hard and soft skills through real demands of the company you’re working for.

Global Entrepreneur vs. Global Talent

There are lots of misconception people have when it comes to differentiating GE and GT or Global Talent. GT, essentially, is not very different than GE. Differences between the two of them among others are the types of company you can work for, duration, and stipend. While doing Global Entrepreneur, you will be working for a startup company which means that it is equal or less than five years old—that way, you can experience the real challenge of building a newfound business. Besides startups, you can also work for accelerators and incubators. Global Entrepreneur takes about six to twelve weeks and unpaid while Global Talent takes six to seventy eight weeks and commonly paid.

Which field can you work in?

If you’re interested and committed to Global Entrepreneur, you also need to know which field you can work for. Sadly, there are only limited opportunities for this. The fields included in Global Entrepreneur are Marketing, Sales & Business Development, Business Administration, Information Technology, and Engineering.

What’s in it for me?

Beside working in a challenging environment, you will also polish your entrepreneurial skills, expand your network, and expose yourself to global opportunities. You will be living in a completely new environment where you are challenged to adapt and thrive independently. You will also receive numerous certificates both local and international from our Local Committee, the company you will be working for, and from AIESEC itself. It is an extremely excellent point to improve your resume.

Need to know more?

Whether you’re still having doubts or have already been certain for this opportunity, satisfy your appetite for all your unanswered questions through our exciting Info Session. Missed out on our previous Info Sessions? Be sure to attend our extended Info Sessions for two more days. Apply here!