UK vs. USA: Top 5 Corporate Cultural Differences
The world is a more local place than ever, with different cultures crossing paths more readily than in the past. As a result, workplace norms are starting to bridge the...
The world is a more local place than ever, with different cultures crossing paths more readily than in the past. As a result, workplace norms are starting to bridge the...
We interviewed Chloë, who completed a London Finance Internship on the Absolute Summer 2017 program. After her successful internship, she was offered a remote part-time position as she continues pursuing...
Luna Terauchi from the University of Michigan shares her London summer internship experience working in Human Resources as one of Absolute's Intern Heroes. Choosing to intern in London was a conscious...
When I imagined my summers of college I envisioned myself with a backpack that weighed roughly the same as a small child wandering around Europe. I’m very happy to say...
Arriving in a new city, especially one as big and busy as London, can be overwhelming. I come from a moderate sized suburb, where the greatest decision one has to...
My experience as an intern has been quite different from my day to day life at home. I can’t speak for the other interns as the general consensus seems to...
While Absolute Internship has organized many major events for us, I would have to say the most significant one that contributed to my understanding of European culture have been to...
Before I left my home in Melbourne, Australia; almost everyone I talked to reminded me to pack warmer clothes. Because even though I was technically going in summer, London summertime...
Tucked away down a little street a few minutes’ walk from King’s Cross Station, is an unassuming white building. Behind an extremely heavy glass front door lies my company. To...
As I sit in my room staring at a blank word document, words fail me. For an aspiring writer and editor, that’s never a good sign. Our days here in...
When thinking about London culture, a major fact I’ve learned is that alcohol is as deeply interwoven into it as tea. That isn’t to mock it, I think it’s more...
When I arrived in London I was worried that I would spend every weekend in a race against myself to see every tourist attraction and major city in my reach....
At around nine thirty every morning I walk into the upstairs office of the company and plop down in my chair at my desk situated right next to my supervisor's,...
After a looong flight of about eight hours and an overall travel time of twelve hours (though I suppose those hailing from Australia would scoff at that with at least...
I’m not a morning person. Nothing in the world—not even the mini-fridge full of sugary breakfast foods that I bought in flagrant abuse of my living-abroad-adult-privileges—can make me a morning...
As I prepared for my trip to London, I was most frequently asked, “Are you excited?” To which I usually responded, “I will be.” I will be, once I get...
When applying for this program, I immediately knew that London is the city where I wanted to spend the summer interning. I had never been to Europe prior to this...
Arriving in a new city, especially one as big and busy as London, can be overwhelming. I come from a moderate sized suburb, where the greatest decision one has to...
Anybody's first experience in the workplace can be very scary. For one, you are entering a foreign environment, one that is asking you to put all your prior education to...