Challenge the opportunity

My last mission at AdvantEdge was the most stimulating factor during the course of my internship. I had the opportunity to work on a book project and what motivated me was that everyone at work worked as a whole team. I was assigned various tasks and the first one consisted to review some documents and extract information based on some themes that I was given. The work had to be accurate and precise. It was whole like an assignment at university and it helped me learn how important you have to double check your information when doing research, especially in our domain, so as not to lose credibility. I was also assigned to extract numbers and tables from various documents and ended up doing nearly 20 graphs which would be included in the book. Even when doing that, I had to double check my information so as to provide a professional work. I should admit that going through these documents was not a big fun because it was time consuming but I had to do so to produce my piece of work.

This is when I learned that things do not always go as you which in work but it is your responsibility to adapt to work. You have to be very organized to meet deadlines and verify your syntax, just like we learned at university and I think that’s the basic similarity of theory and practice in work. You always have to develop on that yourself through research and observation, which only you can do to progress.

What I can assure you through is that the feeling of the final product is really worth it and if you are able to develop your skills through a process like this, you’ve grown a lot, not just professionally but also on the human ground. I learned that each task is a new learning process and it a challenge for yourself to develop and build on that.

Regards,

Beatrice Etiennette

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Charles Telfair Institue