After two and half months of working at CCL, I officially finished my internship today. It’s been an amazing experience that will literally mark me for the rest of my professional career. I didn’t only learn how the corporate world works, but I also have a clearer idea of where I want to go in life.<\/p>\n
My last week at the Carnival HQ was not as hectic as the other ones. However, I learned some other key lessons that I’ll never forget. This week I had to do four more projects for my supervisor. Those included presenting the program update to the Director of E-Commerce, doing a QA for a campaign, making a tagging report, and a final report of the projects that the team has to keep updating after I left.\u00a0From all of these projects there is two worth talking about: the tagging report and the presentation.<\/p>\n
The tagging report taught me that is better to do extra work that ‘just enough’. Let me explain. I always had the mentality of ‘Work smarter, not harder’. I still believe in this idea, however, in the corporate world is better to add a lot of extra\u00a0information than ‘just the necessary information’. This way, after making the presentation or report, you will only have to edit and delete the unnecessary content. In the case of this\u00a0report it helped me because originally I had done it incorrectly. But since I had included so much information in it, the report was still useful. So at the end, I just had to edit.<\/p>\n
The other big project was the presentation. I didn’t present to the VP of E-Commerce but only to the Director of E-Commerce, which is still a huge deal. However, it was way more informal that I had thought. It was in the director’s office and it was me, my supervisor and him. He asked only a few questions and at the end he just said: well done, good job. Then\u00a0I left the office\u00a0and that was it. All the countless number of hours editing the presentation came down to 20 minutes in that office. However, I still believe it was a success. I learned that in a program\u00a0update like that, information has to be so clear and complete that there shouldn’t be the need to ask questions. So all those hours editing it were worth it!<\/p>\n
At the end, this internship marked me not because of the projects I did, but what I learned in the process of making them. It was an incredible experience that changed my career path and made me realize how the real world works. I am\u00a0incredibly grateful to my supervisor for have given me this amazing opportunity and I can’t wait to repeat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After two and half months of working at CCL, I officially finished my internship today. It’s been an amazing experience that will literally mark me for the rest of my professional career. I didn’t only learn how the corporate world works, but I also have a clearer idea of where I want to go in … Continue reading Final Week at Carnival Cruises<\/span>