Not only was my work as an intern fun, but it was genuinely beneficial for me. At times it did not even feel like work, with the help of my very entertaining mentor Sara. However it was not ALL fun and games in the office. I learned alot through the work I have completed at the UPS Store office.
A lot of the work I have done during this internship has been very beneficial to me and my educational career. I have had a great amount of responsibility come witht he work I have done for the company. The majority of the work I have done has either been online using my mentor's account, or logging onto websites that only certain employees have access to. I have also learned business world etiquette and professional dress that will help me with college, college internships and real world business situations. It had a big impact on my education because I learned skills to help me through the rest of my educational career, as well as flat out content that can and will help me in Senior year and college. There were a lot of business terms that were thrown around that I kept in the back of my mind to impress Mr. Hensley and Ms. Hollenbeck with.
My project just started off as a basic idea that would tell the company if an investment in digital signage was beneficial or not. I started off just thinking of course not. It is thousands of dollars for a tv screen. But as I started doing research I found I was completely wrong. As I developed an awareness of what digital signs were and the purpose they served, I realized I had to convince UPS to get one in each store. I started out by just researching and looking for other places that had digital signs. Then I did research for different companies to see which would be the best for the business. In the end I found a company that would be cheap and easy for UPS to use. *SPOILER* I did not know what I should then present because if I just gave a boring old presentation, no one would care and all my work would have been for nothing. So I thought to myself, what if I just put my whole presentation on a menu board and see how people would react to presenting info that way. Of course it is RIDICULOUS to get your point across on a poster board, which is what I am truly trying to show. No sane person wants to get info from a menu/poster board. They want digital so I decided I would print my whole presentation on a poster to really demonstarte how useless they are in this day and age. So I called Kinkos, but they didn't understand what I was trying to say.
When I got into work today, 06-09-014, I asked my mentor what I should do. We then took a "fieldtrip" down to the printing room and I asked for what I wanted. Right away the man knew what I was talking abbout and a half hour later, he delivered a beautiful example of what I wanted. So my small vision of just saying they should not invest, turned into a full demonstrational powerpoint and presentation.
I was so excited to complete this project and I am happy and relieved I completed it.
A lot of the work I have done during this internship has been very beneficial to me and my educational career. I have had a great amount of responsibility come witht he work I have done for the company. The majority of the work I have done has either been online using my mentor's account, or logging onto websites that only certain employees have access to. I have also learned business world etiquette and professional dress that will help me with college, college internships and real world business situations. It had a big impact on my education because I learned skills to help me through the rest of my educational career, as well as flat out content that can and will help me in Senior year and college. There were a lot of business terms that were thrown around that I kept in the back of my mind to impress Mr. Hensley and Ms. Hollenbeck with.
My project just started off as a basic idea that would tell the company if an investment in digital signage was beneficial or not. I started off just thinking of course not. It is thousands of dollars for a tv screen. But as I started doing research I found I was completely wrong. As I developed an awareness of what digital signs were and the purpose they served, I realized I had to convince UPS to get one in each store. I started out by just researching and looking for other places that had digital signs. Then I did research for different companies to see which would be the best for the business. In the end I found a company that would be cheap and easy for UPS to use. *SPOILER* I did not know what I should then present because if I just gave a boring old presentation, no one would care and all my work would have been for nothing. So I thought to myself, what if I just put my whole presentation on a menu board and see how people would react to presenting info that way. Of course it is RIDICULOUS to get your point across on a poster board, which is what I am truly trying to show. No sane person wants to get info from a menu/poster board. They want digital so I decided I would print my whole presentation on a poster to really demonstarte how useless they are in this day and age. So I called Kinkos, but they didn't understand what I was trying to say.
When I got into work today, 06-09-014, I asked my mentor what I should do. We then took a "fieldtrip" down to the printing room and I asked for what I wanted. Right away the man knew what I was talking abbout and a half hour later, he delivered a beautiful example of what I wanted. So my small vision of just saying they should not invest, turned into a full demonstrational powerpoint and presentation.
I was so excited to complete this project and I am happy and relieved I completed it.