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Tailor Made Internships are available in any industry in New Zealand (except human medicine and patient interaction). If you cannot see an internship vacancy that is suitable to you or you do not meet the requirements, you can apply for a tailor made internship and we will design an internship around your unique requirements and expectations.

In the past 20 years we have placed thousands of interns in a hugely diverse range of organisations undertaking placements in almost every industry sector.

Below is a few unique placements to give you some ideas on where our interns have been placed, from funeral directing to fashion marketing, the options are endless.

If you do not see a fitting internship listed below in the examples, simply get in touch via our enquiry page to find out what internship opportunities we have for you.

Tailor-made Remote Internships are also available.

Mechanical Engineering Internship Example

Our host company is a mechanical engineering company who specialises in the design and manufacturing of industrial food, beverage & pharmaceutical equipment. Our company started 18 years ago, and have built long term relationships with all of my customers such as Cadburys and Pernod Ricard Winemakers Ltd. The company is capable of a wide variety of disciplines including complete turn-key projects, which involve designing equipment and processes. The equipment is manufactured in their carbon free workshop prior to the installation, and manage sub-trades, and commissioning. They are constantly involved in a variety of smaller projects, as well as developing new products, and product literature. As the intern you would be involved in working with both trades staff in both the workshop and onsite, learning about fabrication techniques, site and shop safety, as well as in the office working with engineering staff on aspects of design and project management. I may also have the opportunity to assist the engineer undertaking some drafting (on AutoCAD or similar) as well as some technical writing for product specification sheets. You will leave with a broad range of exposure to all the disciplines we practice. Apply for a tailor-made internship like this one today

Media Internship Example

Our host is one of New Zealand’s leading radio networks. It is a contemporary radio station which is targeted primarily at women 25-44 and plays a range of popular music. There are 22 stations across the country which all have their own local breakfast and daytime shows and then generally take network programming from the Auckland station. The staff are motivated people who are passionate about delivering great radio and promotional events for their listeners. Your internship you will primarily be working with the Auckland Manager and as this is a very dynamic environment, we expect the activities you will be doing to change and evolve throughout your placement.

Funeral Assistant Internship

Our host has been in business for 80 years helping New Zealanders create personalised goodbyes. They have beautiful Auckland based funeral homes, professional funeral directors and years of experience and they support their clients through the entire process, helping to make this emotional time as simple as possible. The internship role is to assist the funeral director with all aspects of the funeral from assisting with the transfer of the deceased, logistics, dressing of deceased, making of caskets and assisting on funerals. This rewarding internship will provide you with a sound knowledge of the funeral industry and give you a broad and transferable range of skills.

Fashion Internship Example

Our Client is a distributor, agent, designer and producer of top international and local fashion labels, catering to women selling into New Zealand and Australia. The company is at an exciting stage having built foundations to capitalise on and realise it’s true potential. This great internship opportunity will give a chance to gain practical experience that simply cannot be obtained in the classroom. Working closely with fashion designers will equip you with valuable skills that will give you the much needed edge when entering today’s highly competitive job market.

Arts and Culture Internship

Our client has a group professional staff and volunteer board of directors, and is a unique not-for-profit organisation offering educators, artists, parents and students a broad range of programs, services and resources to promote arts and creativity among young people. If you are interested in advertising, arts, music, photography we have a placement where you can grow and learn within your field. The tasks will vary depending on your area of interest however we have previously seen interns helping with roles and projects such as greeting visitors and answering questions in person and on the phone, community engagement, communications with members, assisting with special events and projects, exhibition openings, take down, and installation, preparations for annual events and building and maintaining customer relationships.