Why it is suitable to have a trainee?

• Serious and strongly self-motivated candidates are willing to work very hard for you, often just at the cost of a basic living allowance. Some have grants from their Governments, or European Union (i.e. Leonardo da Vinci programme).

• The trainees might work even FREE of charge for you for short periods

• For many, particularly smaller / medium sized businesses (SME) employing a trainee can become the first, very cost effective, low risk, stepping stone into a New Market

• Applying candidate's local know-how and personal contacts even just to Internet searches in the candidate's own language, can give a SME or similar organisation often more value for modest money, than many pages of expensive professional Market Studies

• And how about attending conferences, trade fairs or visiting important potential customers with a national from that country on your side, who has just spent weeks / months inside your business, learning about your goals / products / services offered?

• Trainee from abroad is always an interesting social experience for your team, young people are immersed into a different culture from their own, and the awareness of the differences is the first indispensable step in order to develop mutual respect for and co-operation with people of other countries, without renouncing their own cultural background
  

• Clever employers have also learnt, to systematically build consecutive placements into permanent teams