If you have never reported a missing child, had to witness a criminal wanted by Interpol busted and have shifts during all public holidays … then you obviously have never worked at a hotel! Starting from fall 2018 I was lucky enough to be accepted to work as a receptionist at the top 4-star hotel…
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Autumn 2018, Zemskova Emiliia Please, imagine a situation that one young girl (19 year old) is in India. She doesn’t meet any European, American or Russian people for 2 months. She lives with just spicy and chilly food. Everywhere is messy and dirty. She needs to be strong in order to built relationship with the…
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I am Ilia Maslov, and in the summer I have been to Russia, Saint-Petersburg, where I have been going through the Practical Training as a marketing analyst in the fitness club. I have been supervised there under the manager, who was more of a generalist manager and I worked in a pair with a marketing…
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Hi, My name is Daria and I have completed the second year of my studies at JAMK. Last summer, I had my practical training at a Finnish IT company called WorldSome Oy and I would like to share my experiences with you. I hope you will find something interesting or useful for your further studies…
Continue readingA leap into the corporate world
Majority of students today would approach a new environment with eager and vigour in a bid to deliver and show what they have been taught at the university. In my case when I jumped straight to corporate world after college in my native country, Kenya, a full steam to deliver within a short time was…
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