I remember when I came home for the long vacation, I never had the
desire to do my attachment. Come on, I was hard up and I needed money to
prepare for the next academic year. Besides, my laptop was ill, I had to look
for accommodation, go to the hospital and revamp my wardrobe (It was really
important for me). But I searched and did not find, so my last option was to do
my attachment (unpaid internship). I sent my letter of introduction letter and
landed somewhere.
I did not regret working here as an intern. I learnt a lot about
marketing,customer care…………etc
I learnt a lot at my
place. I learnt how to make appointments with clients and follow up calls which was a bit scary at first.
I also learnt it was VERY BAD to use office resources for your personal use during office hours. Once I was caught reading a novel (I love reading) on my office computer. I downloaded it and was reading. My boss caught me and warned not to do that again. It was very unofficial.
I learnt how to dress
officially to work place. This has made me like to dress up like that to class.
I also learnt that, if
you need to ask permission to be absent for a while, it should be asked a week
earlier, so that work that was prepared for you to be done would be noted to be
done sooner or later.
In my field, I learnt
how develop questionnaires for evaluation of services like customer care.
I was absent for a day
and was not able to phone in due to some circumstances. If you know you cannot
make it to work, call in to inform someone at your work place.
Also, try to study
someone before getting acquainted with them. You might not like the end
results. Seriously.
One last thing, I learnt
how to do perforation and binding of documents. Yeah.
How was your internship?
What did you also learn?
