{"id":1092,"date":"2020-03-02T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2020-02-07T14:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:07:38","slug":"summer-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/summer-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learnt on my summer internship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Rhiannon Thefaut, BA International Business Management<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

My internship was a learning experience. I hated it, but reflecting back, I learnt some really important lessons and developed as a person because of it. I\u2019ve got a clearer idea now on how best I worked, what I wanted from a job and what I was and wasn\u2019t interested in. Therefore, I recommend doing an internship, even if it\u2019s not what you expect \u2013 because the lessons learnt are worth it and, honestly, the extra money is really helpful for third year when your maintenance loan lowers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The first thing I learnt was that I did not want to work in Human Resources \u2013 until this internship, I was sure this was what I wanted to go into. However, after learning it was more about policies and following guidelines, rather than directly helping people, I decided it wasn\u2019t interesting to me. The positive from this was that through my project on creating a tool to predict unplanned absence, I learnt I really enjoyed working with data. I\u2019m now applying for master\u2019s in data analysis and graduate jobs that directly involve looking at trends in data. This was probably the best thing that came out of my internship; it allowed me to see what areas I enjoyed working in a practical sense, rather than theoretical.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The second thing I learnt was that who you work with really makes the job \u2013 the people I worked with didn\u2019t try to include me, help me or support me. I went to work and didn\u2019t speak to anyone all day and then went to the flat I lived in alone to not speak to anyone some more. Looking back on it, I could have tried more to talk and be part of the HR team, however, as they didn\u2019t try to include me, I didn\u2019t have the confidence to put myself out there. I asked my manager for help 12 times, and each time got rejected and told she didn\u2019t have time for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

This links to the third thing I learnt \u2013 ask for help. If your manager won\u2019t help you, ask someone else. If they can\u2019t, ask another person. It felt so uncomfortable interrupting people who constantly complained how busy they were, but you\u2019re not burdening them by asking \u2013 nearly everyone will be willing to help, or direct you to who can help.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My last piece of advice would be to think hard about whether it is worth doing an internship for the whole summer \u2013 when you\u2019ve just been away from home for a year. I struggled with home sickness more during my internship, than my year abroad as I really wanted the time with my family after so long and didn\u2019t have the chance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rhiannon Thefaut, BA International Business Management My internship was a learning experience. I hated it, but reflecting back, I learnt some really important lessons and developed as a person because of it. I\u2019ve got a clearer idea now on how best I worked, what I wanted from a job and what I was and … Continue reading “What I learnt on my summer internship”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,73,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}