We Help Hospitality Students and Graduates Obtain a J1 Visa Internship in a Luxury Hotel in the USA
Are you a hospitality student or graduate looking to jumpstart your career? Or an experienced hospitality professional seeking new opportunities abroad? We are Aspen Experience and we can help you get a high impact training in the US, without having to go through the visa paperwork struggle alone. Click the button below to start your adventure.
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Being successful isn't magic. It's cause and effect.
Aspen Experience can help you become laser-focused on the simple actions that yield great accomplishments. The biggest result we can help you achieve is building a successful career in the hospitality industry at a global level.
How do we do this?
We do this by helping you secure an internship with one of the top employers in the industry, which allows you to gain exposure to luxury hospitality, accumulate experience and build a network of high-performing individuals, enhance your technical and soft skills, and build the confidence to step up to higher management positions.
There's more!
In addition to guiding you through the administrative process with our support available 24/7, we also prepare you for the Sponsor, employer and visa interviews, to maximise the chances of getting hired and having the visa approved.
Our programs not only provide a strong foundation for our participants to kick-start their career, but it also offers the chance to live abroad, become financially independent and create lifelong memories.
OUR APPROACH
We deliver everything you need to jumpstart a successful career in hospitality.No fluff – just a pragmatic and structured approach for obtaining a J1 Internship in the USA.
Here's how it works
1. Prescreening
We schedule an initial video call, to meet you in person and offer a clear understanding of the entire process, from passing the Sponsor interview, to filling out the required paperwork, getting hired, applying for the visa interview and getting the visa approved. We prepare you for the Sponsor interview, and help you maximise the chances of being accepted in the program. We guide you step by step through the heavy paperwork process, so you don’t have to remember all the details at once.
2. Interviews
We help you create the ideal Resume, in a way that maximises your chances of getting hired. We offer counsel through navigating the extensive list of jobs available, and choosing the opportunity that best fits your needs. We schedule the employer interview for you, and help you maximise your chances of getting hired. In case you don’t get hired from the first try, we review your experience, help you improve your interview skills, and start the process all over, until you get hired (our participants hired rate is 100%).
3. Visa Process
We prepare all the agreements and help you obtain the visa documents. We guide you step by step through the complex process of scheduling the visa interview. We prepare you for the interview with the US Embassy, and help you maximise your chances of getting the visa approved (our visa approval rate is 98%).
4. During your Internship
We offer medical insurance for the entire period of your program, for no additional cost. We offer you support along the way for the whole internship period. We help you find housing in the USA. We assist you in solving any issues you might have with your employer. We prepare the paperwork in case you need to travel outside of the US, or transfer to another property.
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Get the internship that will change your life forever
If your goal is to develop a successful career, at a global level, you need to zoom out, see the bigger picture and have a plan.
Here’s what you need to have in mind.
Boost your resume
A Resume that includes relevant work experience in the industry you perform in, is much more attractive than a Resume that just shows your studies. To overcome this barrier, you need to get an entry or early-level job and start building that experience that’s missing from your resume.
Improve your English
Our participants aspire to have a successful career with global exposure, and work for big organisations among different continents. However, they are at the beginning of their career, and they haven’t worked abroad much, so their foreign language skills are quite low now. To overcome this barrier, they must work and live in foreign countries and push themselves to improve their English skills, and, potentially, other languages of international circulation.
Enhance Your technical and soft skills
To be able get higher level positions (such as supervisory or management) in an international big scale organisation, you must develop the skills you need to communicate with and run a team, such as: dealing with conflict among customers and co-workers, working under tight deadlines, being very well self-organised, effective communication, email writing, team working, results oriented, and being empathic.
Gain luxury hospitality exposure
When you are trying to move up in the luxury hospitality industry, you need to gain exposure to luxury hotels and resorts and high-end clientele. Learning the luxury hospitality standards (such as Forbes or Triple A standards) and the steps of service in luxury hospitality is a must. You cannot teach others how to deal with very important profile clientele if you don’t have those skills and experience yourself. It’s as simple as that.
Expand your network
When your dream is to work for one of the biggest organisations in the industry (such as JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Hilton etc.) and move up in your career at an international level, you need to build your network of professionals in this field. To overcome this barrier, a very important first step is to get a job in a big international organisation, be a friendly and communicative team member, work hard and get yourself noticed, build a good relationship with your supervisors, managers, as well as directors and general manager. Ask for contact information before you leave, so you can stay in touch with them, and ask for a reference letter as well.
Do you want to get there?
You're in good company!
We support you step-by-step along the whole journey, from the first call to the last day of your internship, and beyond. With a local presence in over 7 countries around the world, our team offers email and WhatsApp support 24/7. You will not only speak with a real person, but there is always someone young, friendly, knowledgeable and with their own personal J1 experience, available to answer your questions.
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See how our participants experienced their J1 Internships in the US
We believe that a J1 Internship will change your life forever. Building the necessary experience and luxury hospitality exposure to move up in your career is what you need to secure a stable position once your internship ends.
Check out how our former participants have seen their life change!
Participant Review
From J1 Intern to Hotel Manager
Daniela did a J1 Internship with Aspen Experience back in 2021, at Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colorado, and now she was promoted to Front Office Manager and is returning to Aspen with a long-term TN visa. Congrats, Daniela!
Participant Review
From J1 Intern to Events Manager
Edi did a J1 Internship with us back in 2021, at Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and now he has secured an Events Manager position with Kronwell Hotel, in Brasov, Romania. Good job, Edi!
Participant Review
From J1 Intern to Hotel Supervisor
Prathu did a J1 Internship with us in 2021, in the Rooms Division department, at Viceroy Snowmass Resort, in Colorado, and now he works as a Front Office Supervisor with Sheraton Hotel in Toronto, Canada. Way to go, Prathu!
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At Aspen Experience we build dreams. We create lifelong memories.
We help you travel abroad for an experience that keeps on changing the lives of every single participant that ever pursued our programs. It’s so much more than an internship. Career opportunities are amazing, yes. You gain professional experience at the highest luxury hospitality level, yes. You train with a global hotel chain, which will prove very useful once you finish your program, yes. But the biggest accomplishment you don’t even see it now. That is networking! That’s what our programs offer: lifelong memories created among a vast network of international friends, and professionals.
Whether you choose to travel to the mountains, to the luxurious Aspen resort, skiing its endless slopes in the winter, and exploring its amazing hiking trails in the summer. Or to the sunny beaches in south Florida, and the coast of California, enjoying the warm weather all year long. Or you prefer the glamorous big city life and countless skyscrapers in New York City, Miami, or Atlanta. Whether you train with a big-brand hotel, or a high-end country club. Whether you find your job easy or challenging.
Whether you want to save money or spend it all travelling. Whether you miss home or enjoy freedom. One thing is for sure: you will meet lots of people, from lots of different countries, which will change your life forever! Many will become your friends for life, and you will get to visit them in their home country. And others will remain great work connections, which will turn out to be very useful in the future.
Now that’s the most important thing you will take out of this internship! An amazing network of beautiful people and beautiful lifelong memories!
Talk to us and we will make it all come true!
Cheers,
Marius