Internship at VisitOurChina
2009-08-25Working at VisitOurChina
Hi, I am Jane. I am an English major student from Guangxi Normal University. I will be a senior this fall. Now, it is summer holiday. So from August 3 to August 21, 2009, I took the opportunity to take my short internship at VisitOurChina.
VisitOurChina is the English website name of Guilin Tianyuan International Travel Service.
And the company has different departments managing different cases, such as General
Manager, Executive Offices, Operation Departments, Transportation department, Financial
Department, etc. Within the Operation Departments there are Japanese Division, Chinese
Domestic Travel Division, German Division, English Division and Russian Division.
I am a new-comer, everything
to me is strange. But I am full of confidence that I have the ability to stay here. There
goes an old saying, 'Skill and confidence is an unconquered army.' All the staff
here is easy-going, kind-hearted, hospitable, and beautiful, and the most important, they
all with high comprehensive quality and ability. When you have faith in others, you will
get the trust. It turned to be true that the staffs are knowledgeable, specialized, and the
most important thing was that I saw their spirit and enthusiasm, everyone is hard-working.
I can see that they love their work. The working environment is spacious and bright. The
atmosphere is harmonious and relaxing. You have enough space to indulge your imagination.
Everyone needs a suitable environment to make fullest use of their ability, while working
under restriction will be an obstacle to ones work.
It was just on the first day
that I was surprised. After being seated, I heard fluent spoken Japanese and English. This
astounded me. I had the chance to listen to Chinese who can speak foreign language
fluently. As a college student with the keenness to foreign language, I adored them with
respect. Later I found that the colleagues in other Divisions are of the same ability, and
the people in other divisions have their own specialized ability. This made me feel
inferior. I feel the importance of being specialized. They are experienced with years of
hard working in this field. And that is the talent. That is talent that the society needs.
I know English, but that is not enough, it is only a tool, if I want to find an excellent
place in the society I should master other techniques and strive to learn what I can learn.
I swear, from this time on, I will make a good plan and strive to master Japanese and
continue to strengthen my oral English.
I am full of gratitude to
everybody here. They gave me the most help with my future career. Experience is the mother
of wisdom.
My work was about E-commerce.
I learned how to make reply in a forum and to exchange links with others as well as other
skills. Problem comes from working, while working you could come across many problems, and
that’s also the source of experience. In order to make the other site linking to our
websites, and make it known to all over the world, we exchange links by using the content
we reply in the forum of some famous websites. In the forum the destination and travelogue
are where I need to make reply in. I guess that travel agencies or the travel related
institutions are finding their chances here. And in order to exchange links with others,
the first thing I need to do was to search good quality website, and then write letters to
ask for exchange. Of course, sometimes we receive some letters asking us for exchange. From
this, I learned to write business letters in reality for the first time.
I learned these from Andy, an
Alumnus much more senior to me. I am very thankful. It is fortunately that I had learned
some computer techniques by myself before, so it is easy for me to understand how to deal
with them. It proves that read more and you will get more benefit. This is also the chance
to practice my English writing, and reading, the ability to find and sort out materials
effectively. I know more about Guilin, my hometown, as well as other cities, and how does
the travel agency operate.
At the beginning, I dared not
communicate with others, because I was afraid of disturbing them. But later, I find that
things didn't appear as what I thought. We are all social man, communication shortens our
distance, and it is through communication that makes things easy. On August 17, there came
a new member. He just graduated from college, and belongs to the Japanese division. It
seems that he is good at dealing with interpersonal relationship. When he came, he
communicated with the members in Japanese division actively, asking for contact information
or else. It seems good. I said to myself, next time I will do as what he did, to open my
mouth, to take the initiative with sincerity, enthusiasm, and confidence.
Effective interpersonal
communication skills are essential to social interaction, and to the building and
maintenance of all relationships. Poor communication skills can cause irrevocable damage to
relationships; affecting productivity, satisfaction, performance, morale, trust, respect,
self confidence, and even physical health. We should learn to communicate effectively with
respect and regard for others.
Now, I know how to do
business with the people far away in the world. There is a standardization of judging the
importance of a page by Google.
I know how to improve one's
own page, to write the business letter to make transactions with internet. I experienced,
for the first time, the feeling of success of doing business by email, even though it is
just the small deals.
I know how to deal the
interpersonal relationship with others. When you are in a company, you should know you are
a representative of the company, you should take care to do the things with wisdom. And you
should get on well with the members here. You are working for the same goal, to create
glory and make the company better and better.
It always took me a long time
to adapt to a new environment, but it went smoothly here. This reminds me of Steven jobs,
the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of
Pixar Animation Studios. Once said in theStanford
Commencement address. “…Sometimes
life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only
thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love.
And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a
large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe
is great work. And "the only way to do great work is to love what you do..." I
love the work here. It is true for everybody to love what you do. If time permitted, I
would continue.
I get to know that as a
college student, you should go out of school gate, explore the society, and contact
society. How time flies, three weeks past, the work at
Visit Our China is a meaningful and valuable one. It is a great improvement to work at
Visit Our China. I made improvement in my thoughts, absorbed new thoughts and knowledge.
Time is short, but I realized much which is good for my whole life. It broadened my view,
deepened my relation with the people from all classes, and shortened my distance with
society. It makes clear the road to be successful.
--- By Jane (VisitOurChina)
