SABIT Offers Internships and Training for NIS Managers


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The Commerce Department's Special American Business Internship Training Program (SABIT) offers 3-6 month internships with U.S. firms for senior level NIS managers and scientists who speak good English. Established in 199, by August 1996 SABIT has trained over 900 NIS managers and scientists. The goal of the program is to expose managers and scientists "to a whole new way of thinking in which demand, consumer satisfaction, and the ‘bottom line’ drive production."

Through a competitive application process, U.S. firms are selected to host interns and are provided with grants up to $7,500 for transportation and a daily stipend. Firms may designate the interns they wish to train or ask the Commerce Department to match them with NIS managers and scientists who have filled out questionnaires and been screened by SABIT's NIS representative. SABIT considers all applications, but it focuses on 10 priority sectors:

SABIT interns travel on B-1 business visas which do not allow for the receipt of a salary or honorarium. SABIT interns may not seek permanent employment in the United States. At the end of the internship, interns must return to their home countries.

Interns may be from any of the NIS countries except Azerbaijan, Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania.

SABIT Program
Attn: Karen Lazar
Room 3319
U.S. Department of Commerce
14th & Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20230
Tel: (202) 482-0073
Fax: (202) 482-2443
E-mail: [email protected]

SABIT has several offices in the NIS:

SABIT Moscow (covering Russia)
SABIT Program
U.S. Commercial Service
15 Novinskiy Bulvar
Moscow, 121099, Russia
Phone: (095) 255-48-48 or 255-46-60

SABIT Kiev (covering Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine)
SABIT Program
U.S. Commercial Service
7 Kudriavskiy Uzviz
Kiev, 254053, Ukraine
Phone: (38044) 417-26-69
Fax: (38044) 417-14-19

SABIT Almaty (covering Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan)
SABIT Program
U.S. Commercial Service
531 Seyfullina Prospect, Room 301
Almaty, 480083, Kazakstan
Phone: (3272) 63-68-18, or 63-69-09, or 63-36-03
Fax: (3272) 63-88-11

SABIT Tbilisi (covering Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia)
SABIT Program
U.S. Program
Antonelli #25
Tbilisi, Georgia
Phone: (995-32) 98-99-67, or 93-38-03
Fax: (995-32) 93-37-59

This article is from the November 1993 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West

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Last updated: December 1993

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