At nine o’clock in the morning, the elevator in the office building is crowded with office workers who are going to be late. Nevertheless, you can easily tell the figure of interns from the crowd-no matter what they dress up, they always look childish, with glasses on their noses and bright eyes, unlike other office workers who are expressionless.
Interns are mostly happy and fearful. Happiness may be due to being a newcomer to the workplace. Although I don’t get any money, I can at least outline the future career life with reality instead of imagination. Fear, because be swayed by considerations of gain and loss, afraid of doing something wrong, afraid of being laughed at, afraid of poor performance and losing employment opportunities.
The initial internship in the workplace is very important.
When we enter the workplace from school, no matter what type or size of design company or enterprise we enter, we have to go through several months of internship. The experience of interns is a very important period for newcomers who have just entered the workplace. It is not only the beginning of their career, but also the beginning of learning to integrate into society and be a social person.
At the beginning of career, it is very important to choose a company with relatively formal management and operation, but not everyone can be satisfied. However, no matter what kind of company you enter, you must first understand the company’s system, design process, interpersonal relationship, and even the division of gangs, and learn to stand in the right position. During the internship, I will gain a lot of things that I can never understand and experience in school. The novelty at first will soon fade away, and the replacement will be confusion or sudden enlightenment. It is depression, excitement, failure and the beginning of success.
For those who are afraid of challenges and have weak professional knowledge, they will realize the importance of professional knowledge at the beginning of their work. Internship needs to persist in learning and innovation. For those who like challenges and progress, internship is exciting, and they will gain a sense of accomplishment while improving their design ability, gain recognition from colleagues and leaders around them, and start to succeed one after another. At the same time, they will gradually learn to get along with others and start to weave personal relationships for future development.
Internship is also an important period for a person’s career orientation. Some people feel that the existing company or position is not suitable, and they will choose to change jobs immediately, or even choose to change careers, while others choose to stick to it. Nowadays, many former interns have been groping in the workplace for several years, and the original rudeness has been replaced by sophistication. The original edges and corners have been smoothed by years, and the excitement after getting a little success has become a habit. What do you think when you look back on your internship? Are you glad that you insisted or regret that you didn’t choose something else?
Success:
Dare to stick to interns’ smooth "turning positive"
David lee is an undergraduate from xidian university. After graduation, he was well received by many tutors and interns during his internship in a foreign company in Beijing, and made a very comprehensive and rapid progress. Interns who practice together call him the "first person" among interns. Although it is a bit of a joke, david lee did make outstanding achievements during his internship.
In fact, Li Haohao was just an obscure "little soldier" when he first started his internship, but now he has become a master who can carry out projects independently. How did he accomplish such a gorgeous transformation?
In david lee’s view, internship is more than simply completing internship tasks. His company is a big school, where he can absorb all kinds of nutrition as much as possible. Facing every challenge, you can learn a lot as long as you overcome many difficulties and complete the task, and your ability in all aspects has made a qualitative leap.
This coincides with david lee’s mentor Zhang Haitao’s summary of him. He believes that every mentor will have certain expectations when assigning tasks to his interns, and whether they can meet or even exceed expectations is decided by the interns themselves, and it also determines how much they gain. At that time, every task assigned to david lee was quite difficult, and there were certain expectations for him, and david lee’s performance basically exceeded the expected level every time, which meant that his ability was greatly improved, and gradually accumulated to be rapid growth.
What david lee remembers vividly is that in 2011, under the leadership of his mentor Haitao, he was responsible for the promotion of a development project, which mainly included publicity at the booth and lectures at the sub-venue. Another big challenge. This time, david lee has to change his role as a listener and a visitor, pick up the microphone, become a narrator in front of you experienced people in the industry, experts and business owners, clearly introduce the technology and development process in a short time, and carry out lecture activities, especially facing hundreds of senior developers in the industry. "Can you Hold the audience when you are young?"
"In order to improve my self-confidence, at the same time, make the lecture attract the audience, and present the complicated development process and technology in a more interesting and relaxed way, I have done my homework, constantly revised the way and details of the explanation from the audience’s point of view, and repeatedly previewed it. Finally, the effect of the lecture is very good." David lee told reporters confidently.
There are many similar activities organized by david lee. The projects are different but the same. Every time, he sets goals, plans schedules, edits brochures, carries out the activities on site, summarizes them after the activities, and even takes charge of them from beginning to end. He also has to go to the podium to explain to different groups. Every time he faced a challenge, he chose to get up the courage to face it with all his might, and as a result, he ushered in a "brilliant rainbow" after the storm.
When the reporter asked Li Hao if he had taken a detour during his internship, he said sincerely that of course he did. Regarding the advice given to other interns, he stressed that we must pay attention to communication with our tutors. "When I first started my internship, I just buried myself in my work. I never took the initiative to report the progress of my work to my tutor and I wouldn’t seek advice. As a result, my tutor didn’t know whether he was working hard or not, and even questioned my work attitude and ability." Li Hao found this problem in the process of summing up experience and lessons, adjusted his working methods, reported the progress of his work to his tutor in time, and listened to their suggestions on phased work. In this way, he not only ensured that the work was carried out in the right direction, but also avoided wasting time. Looking back at the pace of progress, he himself summed up: "The stage is as big as the heart."
Failure:
"Why do you always let me do odd jobs?" Helpless to end the internship
Liujing, who studied in Lanzhou Business School, graduated from senior year this year and recently quit her six-month internship in an electronic product company. She complained to reporters that she worked as a merchandiser and customs broker in the company, and felt very tired and hard every day. She often worked overtime until 7: 00 or 8: 00 in the evening on weekends, and the pressure in her heart was heavier than the physical load. "At first, I felt that I had to show all the knowledge I had learned in college, and I also wanted to try my best to get any chance to stay in the company."
"Why do you always let me do odd jobs?" Liujing complained very much. She remembered that during her internship, she only did trivial things: sending and receiving documents, copying them to a USB flash drive, and sending them to the leadership office. Then she cleaned the office and helped the teacher bring tea and water.
In liujing’s view, these things have no technical content and nothing can be learned. But in the teacher’s opinion, even simple work can’t be done carefully, so she can’t be given more important work. "For example, once I bound a speech for a leader, because it was a big manuscript with many pages, I flipped through it at the end, and I didn’t say anything, but I lost a page." The most helpless thing for the teacher: "I arranged for her to take the USB flash drive to the office next door to print the document, but the document was typed out. I forgot to take it back, but I didn’t find it later, and all the important materials stored in it were lost."
For her carelessness, the teacher often gives liujing some advice, and occasionally accuses her. Gradually, liujing has less and less confidence in her job, often absent from work without asking for leave from the teacher, and doesn’t answer the teacher’s call. Of course, liujing, who has a sharp edge, feels excluded by colleagues and even department leaders. She always feels that her internship attitude is not correct. Two months later, she is still doing the work of sending and receiving documents and cleaning, and her work arrangement has not improved at all.
A busybody then deliberately told her privately that her situation would not change, and naturally she would not be left in the company, because any employee in the company would appreciate what she is doing now. As a result, Liu Jing, who was fragile and sensitive at heart, ran to the bathroom and cried bitterly, feeling that she would always be the little clerk who sent and received documents and would never be valued by the leaders. So she stopped working actively in the next internship period, and rarely actively communicated with colleagues and leaders, and hastily ended her internship for half a year.
"Actually, when I think about it, the original idea was a bit extreme. Now I really regret it. I gave up the opportunity to continue my internship, but now I have nowhere to find a better company for my internship." Now liujing is a little regretful. She didn’t practice in a company in a down-to-earth way. She told reporters: "I just ignored that every intern grew up step by step in a difficult situation, not a one-step process. This requires a serious and correct attitude. What I lacked was this correct attitude, which also led to my failure experience."
Let go of the psychological burden and get out of the internship misunderstanding.
Some suggestions on the internship process:
It is not advisable to practice for quick success and instant benefit.
Many people are too utilitarian when looking for an internship. If the company says it doesn’t keep people or is uncertain, it will often slack off a lot in attitude and action, which is not desirable. In fact, many companies have been secretly observing that students can stay as long as they perform well in the internship process, and companies are very willing to retain interns.
Small companies also make people grow.
Many people tend to look for big companies when they are looking for internships. They feel that they can’t learn anything from internships in small companies, and they may not be able to add points for future job hunting. However, the positions opened by big companies are limited after all. In fact, what is the content of internship is more important than where to practice. Recruiters mainly examine students’ ability and quality through their internship process.
Vulnerable psychology matures as soon as possible.
At work, many interns are psychologically fragile. College students are called the favored ones, the teachers’ favorites at school and the parents’ treasures at home, so some interns are rather delicate and lazy. However, after entering the workplace, there are time and quality requirements for work. Psychologically too fragile, they need to be strong, and many students need to mature as soon as possible because it takes too long to change from student status to workplace. We should forget the identity of students as soon as possible and complete the transformation from students to social people and then to professionals.
See more, listen more, think more and do more.
Some workplace interns are active in their work, but lack thinking, and it is easy to do things without thinking. Seeing what my colleagues around me do, I will do something like this, which will not make me make great progress. Newcomers should still watch more, listen more and talk less, and not be eager to show themselves. As interns, we should talk less, but listen more, watch more, think more and do more, and sum up the experience of our predecessors in the workplace for our own use.
Reporter’s note:
Every intern is shouting that the work is too hard, and the company doesn’t treat itself as a person. This is not their ideal company, and this is not the place where their dreams begin. However, is there anyone who is willing to think about every simple job a little further and further? Every intern is complaining that the work content is boring, which is nothing more than filling out forms, calling and sending express copies, but have you thought about it carefully, and whether there are any solutions to these work contents?
Internship is not about going to a famous company to do a lot of small things, but through these small things, let yourself start the transformation from school to society, let yourself have an opportunity to get in touch with and know the society, and realize your strengths and weaknesses, abilities and preferences step by step through these opportunities, so as to quickly integrate into the society when you leave campus and choose a more satisfactory job.
Therefore, the more significance of internship is to give you an opportunity to think, think about yourself, think about society, think about the matching degree between the two, and think about what you still lack and like. In the internship, I learned more about how to respect my teacher, how to work with all my strength, and also learned some methods and attitudes of being a person and doing things. As for the work content, it is secondary-anyone can do such small things as sending express delivery and copying things.
There is an old saying called "seize the opportunity when it comes", or "the opportunity only comes to those who are prepared", but it has been proved that the opportunity does not fall from the sky, but is bought by our own accumulation at all times. We should take the internship opportunity seriously, do our job well and try to "become a full member" successfully in the fastest time. (Xinbao reporter Hai Xiaoyan)
(Source: Gansu, China Network)
