During an internship in  public relations, you’ll be able to help a company support the goodwill and brand of a product, service or person. You’ll learn about writing press releases and how to leverage media contacts to create a distribution of information to ensure your target audience is reached effectively. But most importantly in PR internships, you’ll learn how to determine if your ideal message was properly conveyed and absorbed by your audience to shift overall perceptions. You can find yourself working for PR or Creative agency as well as within companies marketing and advertisement departments. You can expect to be involved in: 

• Media outreach and pitching via phone and email
• Utilize company’s social media as an effective public relations tool
• Create press releases and distribute to different media outlets 
• Track, measure, and record media hits
• Attend events or meetings with potential targets 
• Write and edit unique and engaging content for company blogs, guest blogs and newsletters
• Research

Minimum B2 level  of Spanish and excellent writing skills are required along with background in one of the following: PR, Marketing, Communication and/or Business.

You will find yourself  interning with an estate/letting agencies or building societies. If you’re more into the financial side of things you can get involved in research to various markets and participate in property tours, in addition to receiving other forms of hands-on training. A large proportion of the work involves liaison with clients and other organisations such as mortgage companies or firms of solicitors, so good verbal communication and telephone skills are essential. Other tasks include:

• Assisting senior agents 
• Advertise properties using social media 
• View properties to potential clients 
• Learn about different properties types
• Create own property/owner database
• Evaluate properties and prepare proposals
• preparing sales brochures and promotional information
• Marketing properties
• Monitoring sales progress
• Managing rented properties
• Negotiating sales

You will need to have strong communication skills and minimum B1 Spanish level. You also need to be business savvy.

Similar to other business related internships, sales internships allows you to get a feel for the big world of business. The difference is that in an internship in sales, you learn specifically about marketing a product and the techniques needed to secure a sale.  You will be the main link between the company and sales. You’ll also pick up new skills like managing sales cycles and pipelines in addition to lead generation through market trends. Opportunities for interns are definitely hands-on: for most companies, you will go on actual sales calls and help brainstorm and create marketing materials to support your pitch. Because you’ll be focused on selling products, you’ll learn a lot about the company itself which will help you decide what kind of company you want to eventually work for. For instance, if sales is your passion but you also love computers, you can intern at Microsoft; if you’ve always wanted to work in a creative environment, you can find your niche at a radio or television station. No matter which route you choose, when you intern in sales, you’ll be benefiting not only yourself, but others as well by driving new business. General tasks that you can expect to do:

• Learning about ratings analysis
• Organising sales visits
• Demonstrating/presenting products to clients
• Establishing new business
• Maintaining accurate records
• Attending trade exhibitions, conferences and meetings
• Reviewing sales performance
• Negotiating contracts
• Execute inventory management & analysis
• Develop a marketing plans
• Gain exposure to the ad industry
• Learn how to use data, digital advertising and web metrics
• Monitor performance indicators for sales campaigns

You will need excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills as well as be business oriented. Required level of Spanish in B1 minimum.

As a student studying marketing, public relations, business, or a similar field, interning in social media is the most effective way to learn how to leverage the power of social media. Properly harnessing the power of social media requires having a unique voice within a customer or client community while offering valuable and relevant content through one, if not all, social media outlets. And social media isn’t going away, in fact, companies are searching for social media interns to keep up with competitors efforts as social media grows with new features and users every day. Who knows, maybe you’ll be a part of the next viral social media campaign promoting a customer competition or time-sensitive promotion while engaging users and influential voices within your industry. General tasks:

• Manage day-to-day communications on all social media channels – outreach via social media
• Engage with trends 
• Run targeted Facebook and Twitter ad campaigns
• Content creation
• Business development and marketing support

You are required to be social media savvy and have B1 minimum level of Spanish.

Within the translation field there are 2 types of placements that are generally offered:
Internships in translation and interpreting: Offering a hands on approach to technical, legal, financial, medical and literary translation, using CAT Tools and learning to organize the basic terminology for each project. And project Manager Internship: which involves understanding how to manage a translation project, coordinate the linguists involved, maintain a relationship with customers and organize technical resources and necessary terminology. You can find yourself working for translation company or assisting a company with translation projects. You are required to be native speaker of the language you translate into and  demonstrate either some translation experience, academic background or a desire to pursue translation as a career. Minimum level of Spanish required is C1.

reading through original material and rewriting it in the target language, ensuring that the meaning of the source text is retained;

• using Translation Memory software – such as Wordfast, memoQ, across, SDL Trados, Transit NXT and across – to ensure consistency of translation within documents and aid efficiency;
• using specialist dictionaries, thesauruses and reference books to find the closest equivalents for terminology and words used;
• using appropriate software for presentation and delivery;
• researching legal, technical and scientific phraseology to find the correct translation;
• liaising with clients to discuss any unclear points;
• proofreading and editing final translated versions;
• providing clients with a grammatically correct, well-expressed final version of the translated text, usually as a word-processed document;

Travel and Tourism internships offer firsthand experience within a travel agency or tour operator as well as some  touristic attractions. There are many aspects to a travel and tourism internship, such as: operation management, event planning, marketing, and customer service. If you have ever thought of working at a hotel, resort, or conference centre, a hospitality internship is right for you.
Tasks may include:

• Confirming customer names with airlines/hotels
• Producing brochures and Internet-based information
• Handling bookings, invoicing and issuing of tickets 
• Responding promptly to customer inquiries, processing all orders and requests.
• To solve technical customer issues over the phone
• Obtaining and evaluating all relevant information to handle inquiries and resolve complaints
• Managing customer accounts and maintaining accurate records of customers and any correspondence on the database.
• Market research, country analysis, management of the customer service
• Planning and setting up of new strategies to enhance the partnerships with stakeholders, agencies within the market
• Cross checking data 

You are required minimum level of Spanish A2. Interest or academic background in travel and tourism is a huge plus as well as other business related skills.

Internships in the voluntary and charitable sector  attract people that place values high and have interests in improving particular areas of society, without the feeling that making money is of the highest importance. Voluntary work is a good way to get experience in something you are interested in while helping others in some way. There are a wide range of placements available:

• Fundraising
• Policy and research
• Charity administration and management
• Volunteer management and co-ordination
• Marketing, communications and campaigning
• Service delivery and evaluation

Workplaces can vary from charity to charity with some being office bound while others are on site delivering services.  Depending on the role you are required to have at least A2 level of Spanish.

International trade allows us to expand our markets for both goods and services that otherwise may not have been available to us. It is the reason why you can pick between a Japanese, German or American car. As a result of international trade, the market contains greater competition and therefore more competitive prices, which brings a cheaper product home to the consumer. Depending on the company and the product/service they sell, your tasks will vary. You could do anything from Marketing, Social Media, Sales, Procurement and of course arranging shipment and logistics. 

Skills required: A2 level of Spanish and academic background in Business related studies.

• Good numerical skills 

Possible tasks, depending on your skills and the placement: 

• market analysis: evaluate and prioritize foreign markets to determine success probability for clients’ products
• marketing the product
• competitive analysis: evaluate competition by other companies and foreign manufacturers producing products similar to clients’ products
• supply chain analysis: evaluate available options for the transportation of clients’ products from their country of origin to their country of destination
• legal analysis: research required licenses, labelling, and registration requirements for the export/import of clients’ products
• social media/current events: draft and publish trade related posts on behalf of the firm