Mountbatten programmes offer full-time, one-year paid internships in London or New York combined with the opportunity to gain a Postgraduate Certificate in International Business Practice.  Additionally, MBA candidates who successfully complete a 12-month placement and courses in London or New York are eligible to complete their Masters degree in Bankok.

Applications are now being accepted for the Mountbatten Insitute’s August 2012 Intake to New York.  They aim to make this their biggest intake ever by filling the 142 internships they have currently (at City, British Airways, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Thomson Reuters etc) and adding some new companies to the list!

The deadline for August 2012 applications is March 15th.  Click here for information about the full eligibility requirements.

The Mountbatten experience really can have a dramatic on your professional career.  This year’s report from the Association of Graduate Recruiters emphasised the importance of international awareness and suggested that, “immersion in a different culture can catapult a graduate into being considered for rewarding roles”.

Nearly 20% of Mountbatten interns go on to work with their sponsor companies when they return to their home country, and those that don’t are in high demand from recruitment agencies and employers.  Following 12 months in the world’s economic capital, Mountbatten interns are armed with transferable soft skills, cross-cultural awareness, confidence, ambition and professional maturity.

Mountbatten have also enhanced the academic course which runs alongside the work placement, and in March will be launching the new curriculum which includes modules in Managerial Accounting and Finance and Organisational Behaviour and Leadership.

The programme is not only open  to business graduates – last year Mountbatten recruited candidates from over 80 different universities, and nearly 50% were graduates of arts, humanities and science and legal courses. The graduate market is so competitive today that professional experiences that make you stand out from the crowd are essential.