My internship in Boston: Experiencing organisational change & Only 4 months left

Dear readers,

I hope that you are doing well and that you are enjoying the last couple days of winter and are like me excited to welcome back spring and its warm days.

It is hard to believe that I have now been doing my placement for over 8 months! I am asking myself WHAT? What happened to me? Where is time going?

All I can say is that the past eight months really have been rewarding on a personal and professional level.

Last week I took part in what will be my last Global Co-op info session for students in the different colleges of the university. I have over the course of the academic year taken part and presented in over 30 Global Co-op info sessions. Through that number of info sessions, I have been able to greatly develop my public speaking skills. I have further been able, by the end of the year to represent the Global Employer Relations team on my own at some of the info sessions. This was rewarding as different co-op faculty members were telling me how great it was to have students sharing their stories alongside given factual and commonly known as 'boring' information. More importantly some of the faculty shared with me that through the presentations, they have seen me grow and improve my cross-communication skills. I have, alongside some of the faculty members, been able to share my passion for exploring cultures, professional sectors and discovering myself in ways that I couldn't have if I had stayed in my comfort zone.

Through the info sessions, I have further been able to share my passion and love for the importance of global studies and work experiences. Therefore I have realized that later in my professional career I want to keep being able to work alongside people from different cultures all over the world.
Other projects I have been working on have helped me realize my interest in other fields; I aim to be working in international relations. I have recently been given more marketing and creative projects. Through those projects I have realized that I enjoy working on projects that are fun, positive, new, challenging, that need brainstorming, need new ideas and challenge the mind.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have further been exposed to industry change and transition. I have been taking part in the meeting with a consultant with the entire department. The consultant was here to discuss the Northeastern 2025 plan. Those meetings were really interesting as I was able to express my thoughts and ideas for Northeastern. Those meetings helped me to better understand the processes behind hiring a consultant, providing expert knowledge in higher education fields but also assisted the department in the examination and groundwork to analyse our work and helped us to facilitate our intentions.