Communication skills and professional development during an internship experience

Communication Skills in English

Professional Communication Skills in English

Internship program

The thought of having reached the point at which one gets the chance of exploring a specific field of interest as an intern before embarking on it officially seems exciting. It is at this point that one gets the opportunity to gain practical experience, learn new important skills and become competent as well as gain confidence.

Experience as an intern

As an intern, I was the one who delivered stuff throughout the premises, do the sorting out of crucial documents of the organization for ease of action by the relevant authorities and sometimes make coffee in the morning; occasionally, would get the opportunity of engaging in some serious paper work. This was unlike my expectation. More or less, I had to hold on because I knew this chance was for my own good and increase in my academic credit was pegged on this.

Rather than whine about the situation, I decided to exercise patience and use the situation to my advantage by doing beyond what was expected of me. Just as I expected, my efforts did not go unnoticed as I was then trusted with greater duties.

Even though I had a weakness of not being a very social person, I learnt that I could work under intense pressure and with set targets ad timelines, that I am a good time manager, a quick learner. What stands out most was that team work is most important and that one should constructively accept criticism. One should also take the initiative to work ahead of the deadline.

The social skills and people skills that I acquired while at the internship will be very instrumental in my future interviews and jobs. Of the highest significance was the daily lesson on servant leadership that I would go through. By doing menial jobs fro other colleagues and them doing the same back to the rest was a good lesson that even in big organizations there is still need for servant leadership and will carry this to the nest organization that I will be employed at.