Interns & Trainees for European Clubs

The project completes the subject of internships and traineeships in the portfolio of the Football Development Institute. So far, we have focused on the perspective of interested individuals (prepared internship offers at specific Clubs or internships according to individual preferences), but now we are adding support for football Clubs in Europe.

Project principles

Our mission is to encourage Clubs to create internship and traineeship positions, support them in defining the characteristics of the project and recommending high quality Candidates matching the preferred profile.

Content areas of Club support

FDI helps European Clubs to recruit Interns and Trainees for different departments and divisions:

• management | strategy
• administration | HR
• SPORTS (many Specialist roles)
• Academy roles
• communication | Club media
• marketing | internationalisation
• finance | sales
• legal | compliance
  

Criteria

Each Club can define many parameters:

• internship/traineeship characteristics
• Intern or Trainee profile
• type of cooperation with FDI
  

Interns & Trainees | recommending

FDI is successively building a database of Interns and Trainees with their profiles who are potential Candidates for recommendation to the Clubs. In addition, we also conduct a targeted recruitment of Interns or Trainees based on the criteria indicated by the Clubs.

Different objectives

Organising internships or traineeships in Clubs can have different objectives. Each Club can implement its own internship strategy as part of the Club’s development concept.

We note the key objectives of integrating internships/traineeships:

• increasing the capacity of different departments | improving the intensity of work
• raising the effectiveness of project work
• improving the ratio of salary expenditure to work effectiveness
• long-term recruitment process
• talent scouting
• internal development path for potential new Employees according to the Club’s standards
• education for interested persons | the Club’s mission
• motivation for current Employees
• employer branding
• creation of Talent Academy (in cooperation with FDI)
  

And what is the purpose of your Club? Are you looking to recruit an Intern or Trainee for your department?

Please check our recruitment form for Football Clubs or contact us directly.