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Your journey to an internship at the Swiss Startup Association

Your journey

Thank you for your application to the Swiss Startup Association. To continue your application please complete the following two steps:

1. Read the information provided here carefully to learn more about your work at the Swiss Startup Association.

2. Fill out our survey so we can learn more about you.

We will contact you about your application within the next two weeks.

Raphael Tobler President Swiss Startup Association

We are looking for people who identify with the topic of entrepreneurship and start-ups and want to immerse themselves in this world. Working at the Swiss Startup Association is comparable to working in a startup. A lot of responsibility and a lot of freedom, whereby we expect you to think proactively. We are not perfectly organised and there are also spontaneous challenges. But you will get a lot of insight, you can make a lot of decisions and you can also make mistakes. We always look ahead and want to get better together.

Jeremy Swanson Project Management Intern

The Swiss Startup Association allows you to meet and interact with many interesting people within the startup scene. The work levels will change quite a bit: From times where projects pile up to times where it slows down and you have time to reflect. Your work will range from easy tasks to complex challenges and projects where you can learn new skills.

Florian Osterwalder Former Project Management Intern

The internship at the Swiss Startup Association opened the door to the startup world for me. I gained many valuable insights into the everyday life of a startup founder and have benefited from the great network until this day! The work is demanding. You get responsibility, have to work independently and act proactively. I was able to learn a lot and gain valuable experience that helps me on my entrepreneurial path.

Step 1

Introduction to your work at the Swiss Startup Association

What you can expect

Open, direct and honest communication
We are straightforward and support each other with objective and direct criticism
Accurate work is very important to us
You see the tasks and opportunities yourself and come to us proactively with ideas
When you are at a meeting or jour-fixe, you take notes (no one can keep everything in their head)
You keep your own task list yourself – it’s your bible!
On the last day of the week, you send a short weekly review to the whole team
Lots of communication is important
You will not work overtime and have weekends off
You will bring a good balance between relaxed breaks and serious work
You will meet a lot of people
If you want to do more, we always have enough to do

8:00-8:15 Coffee
8.15-9.00 Checking and answering Mails
9.00-9:30 Weekly team meeting
9:30-10:30 Adding content to the website or create a new subpage, send it to our partner for approval
10:30-11:30 Creating slides for a new project and get feedback from the board
11:30-12:00 Have contact with our legal partner regarding an online startup education session
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Mails and follow-up mails to new potential partners
14.00-15.00 Coordination meeting with the other intern
15:00-16:00 Translation of documents
16:00-16:45 Conceptional work on a new website topic (e.g. payment process)
16:45-17:15 Prepare content for the next newsletter to our members
17:15-17:20 Send daily update to the team

Whatsapp for fast communication (Yes/No Questions)
Slack for Team-Communication
MS-Teams, Zoom and Hostpoint Meet for Videocalls
Google Drive
WordPress (our website)
Eventbrite for our Events
Mailchimp
Canva/Figma to create social media posts

Step 2

Take our survey so we can learn more about you

If you are still interested in working for the Swiss Startup Association please answer the questions in the survey linked below. Thank you for your interest we will follow up with you within the next two weeks.

To the survey