Internship Case Study
What kind of challenges did the Student face? What have the Student achieved during the internship?
The main problem of this internship is that people around cannot speak English. Only the two supervisors spoke English however, the boss of the organization doesn’t have an even base of language so he cannot communicate with the interns and he needed a translator if he wanted to say something. The same problem was with his emails because it was sent to students in Italian and they must ask the supervisors or someone who speak Italian to translate the information so if it is something urgent the interns would not understand the message. Also, not only administration doesn’t speak English but people in the office where the interns were suited …show more content…
At first, students were suited in the hallway at the entrance to the office, and there was no privacy for quiet work, and the only thing that separated the corridor from the students is a small folding screen that doesn’t give the necessary privacy. All incoming people who were going to the office and passed the hallway every five minutes wanted to know something from the students, or just to talk was very to distractive. Also, due to the fact that none of the visitors know English, and students do not understand Italian, was not helpful to the normal communication between guests. This experience taught the intern how to be patient and adapt to every …show more content…
Administration makes a deal with the near office so they will provide Wi-Fi connection to the interns but the problem was that they can do it only by putting the router in the small area between two buildings so because of this the connection was very low. The work that intern must do connected to the usage of Wi-Fi and because of slow connection needed internet pages was hard to open and download. Also, if the weather spoils and starts raining router must be removed so it would not break and on such days interns were left without a main source of information for their work. Working in such conditions gave the student understanding of huge reliability on the internet and that’s needed to stop relying so much on social networks.
The supervisor who was in charge of the interns can’t solve the conflicts between employees properly and cannot explain the tasks to interns in the right and easy way, also was too emotional. The heads of the organization behaved unprofessional regarding students that were working with them.
What kind of business and personal experience did the Student gain: theoretical and practical as
The main problem of this internship is that people around cannot speak English. Only the two supervisors spoke English however, the boss of the organization doesn’t have an even base of language so he cannot communicate with the interns and he needed a translator if he wanted to say something. The same problem was with his emails because it was sent to students in Italian and they must ask the supervisors or someone who speak Italian to translate the information so if it is something urgent the interns would not understand the message. Also, not only administration doesn’t speak English but people in the office where the interns were suited …show more content…
At first, students were suited in the hallway at the entrance to the office, and there was no privacy for quiet work, and the only thing that separated the corridor from the students is a small folding screen that doesn’t give the necessary privacy. All incoming people who were going to the office and passed the hallway every five minutes wanted to know something from the students, or just to talk was very to distractive. Also, due to the fact that none of the visitors know English, and students do not understand Italian, was not helpful to the normal communication between guests. This experience taught the intern how to be patient and adapt to every …show more content…
Administration makes a deal with the near office so they will provide Wi-Fi connection to the interns but the problem was that they can do it only by putting the router in the small area between two buildings so because of this the connection was very low. The work that intern must do connected to the usage of Wi-Fi and because of slow connection needed internet pages was hard to open and download. Also, if the weather spoils and starts raining router must be removed so it would not break and on such days interns were left without a main source of information for their work. Working in such conditions gave the student understanding of huge reliability on the internet and that’s needed to stop relying so much on social networks.
The supervisor who was in charge of the interns can’t solve the conflicts between employees properly and cannot explain the tasks to interns in the right and easy way, also was too emotional. The heads of the organization behaved unprofessional regarding students that were working with them.
What kind of business and personal experience did the Student gain: theoretical and practical as