“If you want to achieve some really and interesting goals, you have to
learn to fall in love with hard work” – Steve Pavlina
Already three weeks that I
have been on my internship program and as much as it started in the middle of
the road, I’ve learnt to appreciate hard work and to be rewarded for it. In
fact I’ve noticed a load of new personality traits and skills that I never
thought I had such as being a true perfectionist, having a talent for repartee but
wise, most importantly, I always ask to work on more projects. Anything but
less, I really surprised myself especially when it is comes from both
communication managers who makes those comments.
I had several tasks these
weeks such as to work on the official corporate magazine named “The Source”
which is released every three months but I will keep this subject for my next
blog post. I promise! Another task has been to deal with time management when
it concerns deadlines for the website articles; being ask to write an article
in the next three hours for the 3,000 employees of the corporate on the
previous event of the weekend which was the Overseas Education Centre (OVEC)
student fair to inform the staff about the response of the public or to
communicate the numbers of present local and international universities. It was
really stressing but I think in these situations, you should remain calm and
professional and concentrate on the information’s given to you to write a clear
and concise text to impress your employer. My next big event coming is the
organisation of a press conference on their annual event “Make A Wish 2015”
which I will also elaborate on my future posts.
Towards these tasks, not
complicated but I guess you have to start from there. I had several surprises
from my colleagues who insist to give me free movies tickets for the weekend
and also free calendars and pens. I was really proud and happy to having made
good impression. I am now developing a real teamwork trait which really help me
to gain assurance in my work. One week left and I’m already feeling emotional
about leaving this good and excellent framework of communication.
4 comments:
Hi Anne Chlotilde
Good to know you are enjoying your internship, yeah hardwork is always rewarding. the best feeling is when hard work comes with results that are beyond expectation. internship is also a good way to discover our talents and abilities, its a good way to tap into out natural abilities so don't be surprised.keep the enthusiastic attitude.
Hi Anne-Clothilde,
I hope your last few days weren't to hard to go through!
Well, I guess these are the reasons behind our internship module: to develop and discover our interpersonal skills. During my internship, I have discovered some of my personal traits I never knew I had, or well never really pay attention to, that had largely helped me in receiving appreciations from my mentors.
Oh DEADLINES! I feel your stress just by looking at that word. I'm not really a person who loves working under pressure and my mentors did notice that as well. This is something I will have to work on because hey, working in the PR area is full of surprises and last-minute project with tight deadline happens everytime!
Thanks Hannah and Millie for sharing your feedbacks. Indeed, I really enjoyed my stay in this really big institution. In fact, it has been the greatest internship experience so far. I discovered so on Public Relations itself and how much it changed throughout the recent years but the most important thing I'm taking from this experience is like you said Millie, I discovered so much on myself as well. I didn't know I could be able to handle big press conferences which were organised there or to speak my mind in front of a whole board of directors. I think, courage is the best word to describe my experience.
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