NEW YORK -- Career publisher Vault Inc. (www.vault.com) has released its first-ever International Internship Survey and finds that 40% of students in the U.S. have interned abroad. The survey was conducted in early May and is comprised of 339 responses from college students across the U.S.
A majority of the respondents (58%) feel that international internships are crucial for future career success. The reasons why students chose to complete international internships included wanting to experience a new culture (60%), a desire to learn a new language (7%), and an interest in moving to a foreign country after graduation (33%).
Students used various methods to obtain their international internship: networking (46%), college career centers (21%), school clubs and organizations (12%), and responding to job postings (9%), among others.
Media seeking the full results of Vault's 2007 International Internship Survey should contact publicity@vault.com.
About Vault Inc.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Vault Inc. is the leading media company focused on careers. Vault offers over 100 nationally distributed books, from the best-selling Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms to the Vault Guide to Schmoozing. Vault is celebrated for its online resource, www.vault.com -- which offers surveys and "insider" information on more than 4,500 employers, 4,000 colleges and universities, and hundreds of industries and occupations -- as well as the much-praised Electronic WaterCooler[TM], the Internet's first-ever network of message boards for professionals with nearly 2,000,000 searchable posts. Vault was founded in 1996 by Hussam Hamadeh, Samer Hamadeh, and Mark Oldman.