Students
Send a short note: school year, working language, a topic you could research for several weeks, and whether you want consulting, finance, marketing, data, or entrepreneurship practice.
conversion / GVI
Write as if you are briefing a project, not requesting a brochure.
Contact GVI with the student’s year in school, the kind of work they want to practice, the time they can protect each week, and the questions you need answered in writing.
Families
Ask for coaching format, weekly rhythm, artifacts, certificate wording, recommendation policy, and anything that looks like a price or date — in writing.
Schools and partners
Describe cohort size, staff role, calendar constraints, and whether you need a shared presentation at the end. Do not ask for a logo wall this site will not invent.
Prepare the note before you reach out
A useful first message is one page or less. Name the student or institution. Name the goal (career exploration, application evidence, school cohort, mentor contribution). Name constraints (time zone, language, school calendar). Name the pages you already read — curriculum, apply, standards — so the reply can start at the real question instead of repeating the homepage.
If you are a student, include one paragraph about a question you would actually like to research. That paragraph is already a sample of whether GVI is a fit. If you cannot write it, you may need the foundation offering before a full pathway.
What a serious reply should contain
A serious reply confirms the five-module spine, the coaching model for that cohort, the artifacts, and the claims policy. It does not need to flatter. It does need to be specific enough that a parent or counselor can compare GVI with another virtual internship or job simulation.
If a reply leans on unverifiable partner counts, unnamed mentors, or urgency around a date this website does not publish, treat that as a warning sign. The contact page’s job is to make the standard of conversation as clear as the standard of student work.
School and counselor conversations
Schools should say whether they need a credit-bearing project, an enrichment cohort, or a club-style experience. Those are different staff loads. Share how much teacher time exists for checkpoints. GVI can provide structure; it cannot replace a school adult who never looks at the work.
Ask for a sample week, a sample brief, and the performance-review dimensions. Those three documents tell you more than a deck of smiling photos.
Mentor and partner conversations
Mentors should ask how many reviews they owe, what “good” looks like, and how academic integrity is handled when a draft looks generated or copied. Partners should ask what students will produce and how the partnership will be described in public. Over-claiming helps no one at verification time.
What not to send
Do not send extra identity documents, payment details, or sensitive records in a first message. The privacy page explains the principle: collect only what is needed to answer the inquiry. Until a cohort is actually running, a conversation note is enough.
After contact: the real next step is apply
Contact is for questions. Apply is for a prepared start: what to read, what to prepare, and what families should verify. If you already know the track and the time commitment, go there next rather than waiting for a long sales thread.
Continue
Keep exploring GVI.
Each page covers a different part of the remote internship pathway so families can compare structure, work, and evidence.
apply
Start with preparation, then ask for a written cohort confirmation.
Applying to GVI is not a mystery funnel. Read the curriculum, choose a practice track, prepare a short brief of interest, and verify coaching, artifacts, and claims in writing before any payment conversation.
resource
Clear answers make a virtual internship easier to evaluate.
These frequently asked questions cover format, modules, coaching, artifacts, claims, integrity, and school use — without inventing prices, mentor names, or 2026 dates.
audience
Families need a checklist, not a louder promise.
If you cannot see the work, the coaching, and the closing documents, you cannot evaluate a virtual internship — including GVI.
audience
A school cohort should be organized from the first briefing.
GVI can support schools that want career exploration and business-skills practice without asking counselors to invent a remote internship from scratch.
trust
Standards are how a virtual internship stays real.
GVI’s public standard covers coaching quality, academic integrity, and what certificates, portfolios, and recommendation support are allowed to claim.
curriculum
The curriculum is the product: five modules, each with a job and an artifact.
GVI’s curriculum follows the 2021 brochure sequence. Students get up to speed, move from data to insight, uncover needs, recommend a move, and align on next steps — comparing drafts with model solutions along the way.