Essay: My Internship At OZ Group - Exploring Cultures, Enhancing Skills.

Question:

Discuss about the Critical academic writing and multilingual student.

The report helps in understanding the differnet cultures along with enhancement of the skills by interacting with differnet individuals in an effective manner. The report includes the different learning outcomes such as learning differnet organizational skills along with understanding different aspects of the eductaion program. The name of the organization is OZ group wherein it is an intermediate agency that helps in providing support support to the different international students. The report will include the evaluation of the program that has been conducted in the internship program as this helps in understanding the issues and other learnings that has been gained by me.

The workplace that has been chosen is OZ group that has close kind of business relationships with more than hundred institutions that includes colleges, secondary schools and universities. The main aim and purpose of the report is to understand the job that has been performed in the OZ study group in an efective manner. The main objctive of the report is to understand the different kind of cutures as this will help in understanding the race, religion and nations. The differnet learning objectives will be analyzed that includes evaluation of the proram as this will help in understanding the general skills in an effectual manner.

The reasons for selecting the respective position is that this will help in understanding the different diverse cultures. The other reasons for selecting the respective position in the internship program is wherein there will be travelling to different countries and this will help in understanding the tasks in an effective manner.

The primary objective behind the given program was to do something which would greatly be inclined towards my love for interacting with people from a wide background of cultures. The main reason why I choose this organization was to see to enhance my opportunities as working for this organization was the best alternative available whereby I was getting a chance to interact with people belonging to all the cultures and nations. My communication skills improved and as a counselor I got an extensive experience about how different students from different cultures function.

My secondary aims from the given program have been stated below:

• Become a master of different languages like Arabic, French, German and others.
• Learn practical organizational skills thereby putting them to good use for my research.
• Understand more aspects relating to the human nature.
• Enhance my leadership skills and master the art of motivation.
• Through this program, I would also have satisfied and accomplished my love for travelling.

In the given section, I will be discussing the outcomes of each of my experiences as compared to the learning objectives that I had stated earlier.

Through the given program I was able to interact with people from various different backgrounds. When I went to Australia, I discovered that it is a hub of different cultures and backgrounds. Students and travelers from all around the world visit this place making the place a heaven for any tourist. The university students whom I was counseling belonged to different cultures like the African, Indian, Italian and some of them were even South American.  By interacting with them and visiting various universities I came to gather a large amount of information about their culture and how they tend to respond to different circumstances.

Learning Outcomes

In this objective, I had not expected to get such an extensive experience.

As the program comprised of interacting with people belonging to different cultures. I had to communicate with each of them on a personal basis. Some of them were well spoken and had a good command over the English language while the others were not well-versed in the given language. This inclined me to communicate with them using their own language. Through this interaction, my communication skills improved greatly and I was able to learn a few languages as well. Through this experience, I realized that body language and other metrics tend to play a key role in the business scenario and that one must be sensitive to the other cultures and make use of appropriate body language in different situations.

As I got to interact with people belonging to the different cultures, I learnt the basics of quite languages such as Hindi from India, French, a bit of local African and German. Very often I used to ask questions to the students belonging to the different backgrounds and enhance my skills about varied knowledge from these cultures. However, it was my objective to learn languages like Japanese and Arabic as well, but this objective of mine could not be achieved as in my group there were no students who belonged to these cultures and countries.

Through this objective I had aimed to learn some practical organization skills. Theory is quite different from the practical aspect of any business scenario. Having extensive theoretical knowledge does not mean that the person will be able to master in real life. Hence, I had aimed to ace my organization skills. However I was extremely disappointed as I found that my organizational skills were quite weak. As I was new to the different cultures I was unable to manage the different groups in an organized manner. Due to this, I discovered that my organization skills need a huge improvement and that I need to take up more programs like these to become a good counselor.

The outcome of this objective was one of the most successful ones. Through this objective, I had aimed to become an expert in understanding the different aspects of human nature. The outcome of the given objective was quite good as when we as a group were faced by different situations, I got to see the true colors of many of the group members that I had not expected earlier and got an experience about how these different people tend to react in different situations. Very often people react differently to different situations and I observed that only some people are able to handle stress. Once, when our transportation was stuck due to an accident, I could reflect upon ho some students were quite calm as compared to the other students who got panicked and irritated.

I had aimed to enhance my leadership skills and master the art of motivation. As observed previously, although my organizational skills were a bit weak, I observed that my Leadership skills were strong and that I could guide people efficiently and help them to figure out their problems in case they needed any help from me. There were certain situations where the student was unable to understand a certain aspect and others. In such cases, I was able to help that student effectively and solve the problems.

Experience Outcomes

I conducted regular meetings with my group to motivate them and look forward to other aspects of the learning program.

Objective 7: Travel

Key Learning outcomes:

I got to travel to various places around Australia. I also took a special trip to New Zealand and was able to fulfill m quench for travelling.

Other objectives during the course:

The given objective surfaced while I was undertaking the program:

• To improve my organization skills.

As I realized that my organizational skills were extremely weak, I decided to undertake a practical course to improve my weakness during the course.

The different kind of skills that included is leadership, travelling, communication, learning aspects of different or diverse cultures along with human resource management. These kinds of skills are essential in nature, as the respective job is required to have such skills inbuilt in the candidate. The main intention of the respective job was to work as the consultant to the different overseas students. The proper communication skills is essential and is required in nature as this requires to provide proper guidance to the students as they will help in making them understand the different importance of the different students in an effectual manner.

In order to council different students of abroad, it is essential and necessary in nature, as this will help in understanding the difficulties of the students. With the help of the leadership skills, it will be easier in nature to understand the queries and solve it effectively. The different leadership skills such as keeping calm, confident in understanding the issues and solve them without providing them with much difficulties. Proper knowledge is essential in the job, as this will help in understanding the prevailing system in different abroad universities.

The different knowledge of the different languages and culture is essential to be known, as this is required in the job. The different languages have to be known and proper training is required to be taken as well as this will help in interacting with different culture students. The different aspects of the human nature has to be understood as in counseling, proper knowledge about the different attitude of the students has to be known and this will help them in guiding different options that is available for them. It is mandatory for the counselor to understand the different requirements of the students as this will help in solving their problems effectually. The human nature has to be understood in an effective manner, as this will help in understanding the different difficult situations in an effectual manner.  

While I was working in OZ group, I had a wonderful experience as I had the opportunity to learn different kind of interesting things. While I was doing my internship in the respective organization, I tried to understand and learn different skills and that helped me in learning about different cultures. During my internship, I tried to understand the different languages along with gained knowledge relating to different places. I understood the importance of the learning skills as this helped me in counseling different students who were coming to our company as to seek guidance relating to their future courses.

Objective 1: Understanding Different Cultures

I tried to understand the attitude, behavior, knowledge along with aspirations of the career of the different students who interacted with me during my internship period. I was provided with a proper training relating to the different situations wherein different students visited our office and I learnt how the different employees tackled the problems in an effective manner. My overall experience was quite refreshing as well as good as; I learnt different techniques and learnt to interact with different students in different languages. I suggested different places of studies that will be appropriate for them.

During my period of internship, I tried to apply my skills of leadership as this helped me in handling a difficult situation in my workplace. One of the students visited our workplace; I tried to understand the issues that are faced by the student in deciding the location and the University for pursuing the future studies.  In that particular situation, I applied my leadership skills as this helped me in understanding the different issues relating to the studies and suggested him a proper technique wherein I applied my cross-cultural leadership as this will help in understanding the different culture students and understand their views towards their further studies. In this particular situation, I handled the situation in an effective manner wherein I understood the different issues faced by him and solve it in an effective manner.

Conclusion

Therefore, it can be concluded that the overall experience during my internship was interesting in nature. The different skills has helped in understanding different skills that was required to be generated as to perform the different activities in the organization. It was seen that the main aim of the organization was to guide the different students relating their knowledge on future studies. I tried to handle the situations with different implementation of communication skills, as this will help in solving the problems in an effective manner.

As per my experience in the internship program, I tried to help the students in help them in gaining different knowledge that is required to be inbuilt such as proper leadership, communication, language and travelling experience. Overall, the experience was interesting and there were lot of interesting facts that I have learnt and understood in order to complete my internship program. There was different kind of situations that was handled by me in an effectual manner.

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