Internships at Kimere
Learn the craft on real files, not on a case study.
An internship at Kimere is not filing documents while you wait for it to end. You step into a real file, with a real person on the other side and a deadline that does not move. You work next to people who have done this for years, in a team spread across countries and languages, and in three months you see a whole journey: from a family's first question to a residence permit filed.
All you need is an email with your CV and two lines on what you want to learn. We reply to everyone.
Why here
Three things you will learn here and rarely anywhere else
International mobility is a craft no lecture teaches: it lives in the procedures, in deadlines that never line up between one office and the next, and in how you explain something complicated to someone who is frightened. You only learn it from inside the files, and this is the place to do that.
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What a procedure is actually made of
Consular files, an ISEE rebuilt from foreign documents, qualification recognition, residence permits. You will learn to read a rule, trace it back to the official source and work out which office decides what — the skill that separates people who work in this field from people repeating what they read on a forum.
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How to talk to someone who is scared
On the other side is a twenty-year-old about to change country, or a parent about to send a bank transfer. You will learn to deliver bad news without losing their trust, and to explain a procedure without simplifying it until it becomes untrue.
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How a distributed team actually works
Colleagues in other time zones, short calls, everything written down because whoever picks up the file after you has to understand it without ringing you. It is how a growing share of companies work, and building the habit now is worth more than any course.
The areas
Where you can start, and what you will actually do
We pick the area together during the interview, based on what you study and what you want to take away. In all of them you work on real files alongside a supervisor, and in all of them there is writing involved: here, work done and not written down is work lost.
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Casework and advisory
The core of the job. You follow student files from application to arrival, with a supervisor who reviews everything before it leaves.
What you will do
- Preparing files for applications and consulates
- Researching rules in official sources, always with the link attached
- Rebuilding the ISEE from documents issued abroad
- Working deadlines backwards from the admission date
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Languages and translation
For anyone studying languages, translation or interpreting. You work on academic documents next to our translators, who are the same people teaching the courses.
What you will do
- First drafts of certificate, diploma and transcript translations
- Terminology review on administrative vocabulary, which cannot be improvised
- Preparing files for apostille and consular legalisation
- Supporting language courses, after a period of shadowing
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University and agency relations
The B2B side. You prepare the material we bring to international offices and recruitment agencies, and you sit in on the seminars.
What you will do
- Research on a country's market and university system
- Preparing the written summaries we hand over after seminars
- Assisting during online sessions with international offices
- Keeping the country briefs our advisory work relies on up to date
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Housing and arrival
The most concrete part, and the one where a mistake shows immediately. Vetting listings, reading contracts before they are signed, everything the first days require.
What you will do
- Vetting listings and recognising the signals of a scam
- Reading rental contracts before signing, clause by clause
- Preparing the arrival sequence: tax code, residency, healthcare
- Talking directly to students who have just landed, with a supervisor
How it works
From your email to your first file
No multi-round selection and no surprise test. We want to see how you think in front of a problem you have never met, not how much you already know about consular procedure: that part you learn here.
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You write to us
An email with your CV and two lines on what you study, which languages you speak and what you would like to learn. If you have a preferred area, say so; if you do not, we will find it together.
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A conversation, not an interrogation
Half an hour to get to know each other. We describe a day here without dressing it up, and we give you a real case to look at together so we can see how you would approach it.
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We put the terms in writing
Area, length, hours, supervisor, format and financial terms: agreed together and written down before you start. For a curricular internship we go through the agreement with your university and handle that side with the office ourselves.
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Two weeks of shadowing
You watch someone work before you work alone. Then you take your first file, with a supervisor reviewing everything that goes out under your name.
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A closing summary that stays yours
At the end we write down what you did and what you learned, in a form you can attach to a CV or take back to your university. Not a line of generic certificate.
We work remotely and most internships are online: what matters is the hours you can be reached, not the city you are in. If your university requires a physical placement, say so early and we will check together whether it can work.
In their words
In the words of the people who chose Kimere
We collect these at the end of each placement, with the same two questions for everyone: what are you taking away, and what should we have done better — we publish the answers to the second one too. Alongside them, the words of someone who has just chosen Kimere.
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My curricular internship took place at Kimere, an international academic consulting firm. The placement was remote, and covered market analysis for Greece, Albania, Turkey and Jordan, as well as managing internship agreements with Italian universities.
A key part of the experience was my supervisor, Chiara Pedretti, whose constant availability and support made for a calm, flexible and highly stimulating place to work.
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I consider the internship a fundamental part of my university path. It let me get close to the working world in concrete terms, and apply what I had learned during my studies.
The experience helped me understand myself better — my strengths, and the areas where I want to grow. I now have a clearer view of the skills I can bring to the table.
That is why the internship is not just an ending, but a starting point for my future professional experiences.
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One thing that contributed significantly to how well the internship went was the relationship I built with my supervisor, and the working atmosphere inside the organisation.
From the very first days I found an environment built on trust and collaboration. That allowed me to feel progressively more confident in carrying out the work, and to gain more autonomy as the internship went on.
My manager trusted me from the start, gradually handing me tasks with a growing level of responsibility. At the same time I was able to put forward my own ideas, especially in producing content and organising the various activities. It made me feel part of the work, rather than someone simply assigned a set of predefined tasks.
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Another thing I really valued was getting constant feedback. The work I did often became an opportunity to talk it through, understand any mistakes, and find better solutions together.
My supervisor was always willing to explain the more technical aspects of the bureaucratic procedures, and to give me useful pointers for improving the way I communicate.
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I appreciate Kimere's international outlook and the field it works in, which lines up with my university career — my bachelor's and master's degrees — and represents an enormous opportunity to put into practice what I have learned and what I will go on learning.
I chose to send my application to Kimere because I see it as an excellent work opportunity and a chance to grow personally. The way the work flows matches what I have been able to learn and my own interests, and I appreciate the flexibility of remote working.
Application to Kimere
What this internship is not, said upfront
- It is not a disguised job offer, nor a promise of one. If at the end there is room and interest on both sides we will say so openly, but it is not a condition of the internship and we will not dangle it to get you started.
- There is no standard pay figure published on this page. Format, length, hours and financial terms depend on the type of internship and the rules that govern it: we agree them in writing before you start, and you can ask us anything about them.
- We will not leave you carrying responsibility for a file. Everything that goes out under the Kimere name passes a supervisor: that protects the student who paid us, and it protects you.
- It is not a fit for anyone looking for loosely scheduled hours. Consular and university deadlines do not move, so you need to be reachable in agreed windows — few of them, but those ones.
Getting started
Write to us, even if you are not sure you are the right profile
We are not looking for a perfect CV. We are looking for precise people, who ask when something does not add up instead of guessing, and who do not mind writing down what they did. Languages, law, international relations, interpreting or economics give you a head start, but none of them is a requirement.
Send your applicationWe reply to the address you write from. If you hear nothing within ten days, write again: we would rather have a second message than an application lost in the inbox.
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