Got my Dream Internship in 🇫🇷

Hello everyone! This is my first post here.

I am a AI grad student based out of New Zealand. In general I’ve been struggling with finding appropriate internships and jobs within my field for quite a while now.

I hail from a research background specialising in a niche field of ML called Graph Representational Learning. Hence it is quite difficult to find internships and research opportunities in this area as it is very niche and not a lot of institutions and labs pursue it.

3 months ago I came across a lab in France who was actively looking for a intern who has a substantial interest and experience in GRL. I created a brand new covering letter, resume and reference letters and shipped my application away.

I literally forgot about it and one morning I got an email to attend the interview call with them. On the day of the interview they grilled me about everything in my resume, different graph architectures and various ML use cases for them.

Whole thing lasted more than 1.5 hours. Then they came back made me an offer. They are also sponsoring my visa and offering me other perks and incentives as well.

Finally my hardwork paid off and I will now be entering the top tier computer science research lab in France i.e CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) in Paris.