For more than 55 years, AIPT has sponsored J-1 exchange visitors and summer work/travel participants from around the globe. The benefits for host employers include talent, diversity, energy, and business development in many arenas which will remain far beyond the training period.
It can be difficult for host employers to envision the benefits to their business when they first consider hosting an international exchange visitor. For this reason, we have compiled a few stories from a handful of the thousands of host employers we’ve partnered with over the years.
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“The AIPT program allows us to provide an extension to our culture,” Chavarria said. “This exchange is important and needed in all countries for it takes the pieces to create a whole towards understanding, believing, accepting, rewarding, and taking care of each other.”
“Working with IAESTE has a tremendous effect on both Menlo and IAESTE participants,” President Rich Sheridan explains, “The sharing of ideas between our employees and our international intern is incredible. They have a profound influence on our company and we are able to spread our unique ideas throughout the world.”
“We feel they are very important to our industry,” he concluded. “Marriott is a worldwide company and therefore we allow all doors to remain open to any and all candidates who are looking for a solid career in the hospitality industry.”
“The beauty of the training program is that it is an international program and that it goes both ways,” she said. “If you use it effectively, you will create a great learning environment.”
“They bring us insight into our customers who are often immigrants from their countries, and give our staff an understanding of librarianship and library trends in the home countries of our newest citizens,” she added. “We feel that it's definitely a win-win situation to have them with us.”