Taj Global Understanding offers a variety of placement opportunities for professionals seeking advanced training in their specialized fields.    Trainee placements are offered on a year round basis and are for a period of 12 to 18 months and are paid employment positions.   While there are placements available throughout the United States, Trainees are primarily placed in the Washington DC metropolitan area.   Applicants are encouraged to apply up to 12 months in advance of anticipated Trainee Program start date.    The average placement time can be 6-7 months.   

• Health care administration and management - how to run hospitals, business administration at clinics and hospitals.
• Teacher administration and management - how to teach and manage an ESL program.
• Teacher exchange program – teaching methodology and techniques, skills in classroom instruction, curriculum development, developing a new training course, creating a new chair, faculty, department at school or university, running student's alumni, scientific, cultural and social projects and activities; business administration at school; public relations and marketing of school.
• Business, commerce, finance and investment.
• Library administration and management.
• Arts business, arts administration and management - developing/supporting performing arts, show production, development and maintenance.
• Civil engineering administration and management.
• Hotel management and administration - how to run a small hotel, business operations, including administering and managing guest relations, catering, planning, entertainment and hospitality business, managing food, housekeeping and transportation; hotel engineering, hotel development.
• Nonprofit policy, administration and management - marketing for Nonprofits, program or project development, fundraising techniques and tools, public relations, project implementation, writing business plans, proposals and budgeting and accounting and tax exempt policy and administration.
• Real estate management - interior design, remodeling techniques, architecture; design techniques.
• Art and Cultural program exchanges - learn how to promote art and culture, history and architecture between two countries.
• International relations and mutual understanding - learn how to promote international relations, social, public and private sector business affairs.
• Environmental – areas include agriculture, fisheries, forestry, golf courses, horticulture, landscape, livestock, marine science, recreation, winery, wildlife, environmental management, and natural resources/conservation.

• Strengthen and internationalize professional learning in the United States and abroad.
• Enhance international understanding and professionalism through business, cultural and non-business activities involving the exchange of knowledge, skills, and experiences.
• Study American business practices, management, corporate governance and current issues. Gain practical experience in these areas through training opportunities in U.S. business, non-profit, and public sectors.
• Transfer knowledge and skills across countries to prepare the next generation of global leaders.
• Offer opportunities to strengthen and share leadership skills and experiences with other participants to enable them to contribute more effectively in their home countries.
• Impart information about the United States, its business and economy, people and society and governmental system.
• Enable program participants to share information about their people, culture, values, professional goals, and daily activities with American people and learn the same from their American counterparts.

The purpose of J-1 Exchange Visitor Program is for “Educational and Cultural Exchange”, not employment.  The 1961 Fulbright-Hayes Act created the J-category with the purpose of “increasing mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchanges”.
At the end of the program, Exchange Visitors are expected to return to their home country to utilize the experience and skills they have acquired while in the United States.
Therefore, Applicants must demonstrate that they fully understand the requirements of the exchange visitor program:   

• Enter the United States for the purpose of participation in this program.
• Remain in the U.S. for a temporary limited training period as described in the DS-2019 and DS-7002.
• Evidence of funds to cover expenses in the United States;
• Evidence of social, economic, and family ties, which will ensure the Applicant’s return to the home country at the conclusion of the program.

• Bachelors Degree of Arts (BA) or Bachelors Degree of Science (BS) from a 4-year college or university in their occupational field and at least one (1) year of prior related work experience in their occupational field acquired outside the United States;
• AA degree from a college or a two-year professional certificate in their occupational field and at least one (1) year of prior related work experience in their occupational field acquired outside the United States;
• Five (5) years of work experience outside the United States in their occupational field in absence of a degree in the same occupational field.