The
great four weeks flew by quickly, I feel sad and hard to leave my placement
especially during my last day. I missed my time working at the Shangri-La’s
Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa. I had a great opportunity to experience so many
different segments of public relations, and been able to perform as well as
trying to get myself a high level of achievement in such a short period of
time. Here is what I have reflected and learnt from my time during my
internship:
Internship has offered me an
opportunity to test my abilities and attitudes toward certain prospects for the
future and to take a big step from my comfort zone. I believed that learning in
class is important, however, it does not provide students the value of real
working experience to prepare ourselves for a career after graduation. Therefore,
exposure to the workplace environment is needed to build a link between
learning in the university and application in the work environment. In my
opinion, internship act as a form of experimental learning to discover the
professional world firsthand and to apply student’s knowledge to practice.
In addition, internships
enhance my skill development. I was able to talk confidently in public speaking
and voicing my opinions to fellow colleagues. I was given the opportunity to
observe the work of others and learn from their own job responsibilities. I learnt
how to write and crafted an article by using the suitable word and simple to
understand by stakeholders. I felt comfortable enough to speak up when I felt
things could be changed or improved.
At first, I was scared I
would do many mistakes but I would said as I do the work, I get better and better after
I practice a lot completing a task. Whatever my supervisor ask me to do, I
would have a go and ask question if there is anything I do not understand, and what I normally did was my supervisor go
over it afterwards and she will let me know what I could do to make it
better in that particular task she assigned. My supervisor constantly asked me for my feedback; even on her own
work; which I really appreciated, and I feel like I did my bit to make pieces
of work even better compared to my university assignments.
I also reflect that by
gaining this experience and exposure allows me as a student to determine what qualities
and characteristics are actually valuable when it comes to being successful in
a job or internship. While university exposure and internship learning have
their differences, knowledge that I learned from tutorials, seminar and
lectures can be practical to workplace situations, tasks, and activities. I can
link some of the theory from the class and took it as a practice in the working
space as I mentioned in previous blog. You don’t know what to expect, what your
jobs will be like and what you will have to do is just willing to go along to
anything and be productive as you can because you will never know how priceless
the experience you gain is. Always prepared yourself for new lessons everyday as a famous quote spotted
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I
know that my time there has been such a great experience. The backbone of the
resort is genuinely incredible. I have had the pleasure of working with some
friendly, creative thinking, professionals and inspirational people that have
really helped me to discover exactly what parts of public relations I love, and
where my strengths and weaknesses lie. This internship programme has been exciting
and opened my eyes and learns that practices improve our skill beyond what we
can really achieve in the future.
This
is my final blog, I would like to thank you for those attentively partake
reading my blog. I’m wishing you all the best in future careers. I hope you
enjoy your experience as fruitful and enjoyable as mine!
Best of wishes,
Melanie
Alexandria Lawrence
17625348
Curtin Sarawak Campus
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