There are some of the company's main business activities which are shown in following table: Ordinal number 8 Installing water supply systems, sewage systems, heating and air-conditionin
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1 Overview of the internship
Time of the internship: 7 weeks (09/12/2013 to 25/01/2014)
The internship takes place from February 17th to April 6th, 2014 It is the third phase
of the whole internship course for the year 2013 – 2014, for students from course 33 of School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University This is a valuable opportunity for
me to practice my English knowledge, communication skill, experience and soft skills from the reality.
Major internship tasks: Translating, arranging contracts and documents,
participating in drafting the short contracts
Description of the internship place
Ba Dinh Anh Joint Stock Company is a company which builds houses and trades construction materials The company is located in No.15, Lane 6, Doi Nhan Street, Vinh Phuc ward, Ba Dinh District, Ha Noi City, Vietnam The company was established in 2011 and so far the scale of the company is continuously developing
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Ordinal
number
8 Installing water supply systems, sewage systems,
heating and air-conditioning systems
F4322
12 Wholesaling liquid, gas, solid fuel and the relevant
products
G4661
13 Retailing motor fuel in specialized stores G47300
The scale and the organizational structure of the company
There are over 15 employees working in the departments and about 200 workers working for the construction sites The company consists of a garage, a warehouse and an office The equipments for working and business are modern and safe Below
is the organizational structure map of the company:
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There are four main departments and their functions in the company:
- The Technical Department:
The Technical Department has important role in providing technical support to the operations, consisting of supervision of repairs and maintenance equipments and machines Furthermore, they are responsible in carrying out audits as per the annual audit programs, developing and maintaining technical procedures and manuals, including maintenance procedures
- The Finance Department:
Director
(Mr Duong Van Luc)
Human Resources Department
Mrs Nguyen Thi Loan
Marketing Department
(Mr Nguyen Trung Tinh)
Finance Department
(Mr Dang Cong Doan)
Technical Department
(Mr Nguyen Van Hoang)
Sales Department
Advertising Department
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- The Marketing Department:
The Marketing department has responsibility in advertising and persuading customers to choose the company's services They have to produce advertising campaigns by gathering information from different source
The Human Resource Department:
The role of human resource department is admitting, training, and the dismissal of employees and workers in the company Besides, it can contribute to the company
by bring out the best in the employee
Working Environment
Ba Dinh Anh Joint Stock Company has been considered to be a good working and developing for a long time The employees not only have many opportunities to cultivate their knowledge and experience in wholesaling construction materials and building houses field, but also can be accessed to many modern equipments and professional environment There are close connections between departments to create the unity and the harmonious co-ordination in the process of working The company gives his employees and workers many opportunities to develop themselves and contribute to him For example, they held some fair competitions Moreover, some good and creative ideas of his employees can be discussed and applied The company has many policies in offering some prizes to give to
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2 Content of the report
Personal plan
The following table gives some detail information about my works in seven weeks that I have completed:
1 - Learn about the company’s regulations
- Make the acquaintance of the others in the
workrooms and working environment
- Visit the departments in the company
- Receive the assignment and instructions of
the guide
- Reading materials or documents of company
- Adapt ourselves to new working environment
- Master the scale, structure and rules of company
- Have good instructions to work effectively
- Understand the company’s background, its missions, its works and my responsibilities when taking internship in the company
2 - Photocopy some reports and short contracts - Make the acquaintance of
some works from simple to more complex in the
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reports and contracts
- Translate and type the company’s texts and
documents
- Find some Vietnamese order-forms and
translate them into English
company
- Know more about the next duties
- Have more knowledge about reports and contracts on business
- Practice typing and translation skill
- Practice gathering information and English translation
3 - Collect and type the company’s English
documents
- Meet some foreign customers and introduce,
explain the company’s services if necessary
- Arrange different business documents and
put them in the order
- Practice gathering information and translate specialty vocabulary
- Practice and improve communication
- Have more knowledge and realize different business documents
4 - Translate the company’s scale map and
show the relationships between them
- Help some foreign customers understand the
- Complete the translation of the company’s scale map
- Convey some messages by
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- Translate some short contracts
description and imitation
- Practice and improve translation skills
5 - Type the company’s texts and documents
- Translate some short contracts
- Know more information about activities of the company
- Complete the translation of contracts
- Practice and improve translation skill
6 - Arrange and translate some longer and more
complex bills, contracts
- Translate some economic contracts and
orders from English to Vietnamese
- Practice gathering information and translate specialty vocabulary skills
- Improve English translation skill and
7 - Continue to translate the company’s
contracts
- Summarize the internship process and
complete the internship report
- Improve translation skill
- Realize the strengths and weaknesses in the internship process
- Receive useful comments and advises from the guide and the colleagues
- Have many interesting and meaningful lessons
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3 Personal development
During the internship period at the company, I had gotten many interesting and meaningful lessons from my works and my colleagues who worked around and gave
me some useful helps I not only had many chances to improve my knowledge and experiences in wholesaling construction materials and building houses field, but also could be accessed to many modern equipments and professional environment All the knowledge, skills and experiences which I got during working at the company are very useful for my job in the future Because of lacking experiences, I met with many difficulties However, I had overcome those challenges and gained good results
This experience had helped me to improve my professional writing skill I am becoming familiar with structures, grammar in writing and how to effectively enrich
my vocabulary I also learned common English phrases in official documents which
is very useful for my future job In addition, I practiced English translation to translate materials and contracts of the company so I can learn many specialized words as well as phrases
I also learned how to use office machines, such as printer, scanner, photocopier, etc Moreover, I learned how to work on excel or Google Drive in working, saving and reckoning statistics I also know how to write a report, minutes, order, commend card, contract, and bill
Hopefully, they will be good keys for my next steps in the future
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In the first week of the internship:
- Learn about the company’s regulations Simultaneously, making the acquaintance of the others in the workrooms and working environment
- Visit the departments in the company Especially, receiving the assignment and instructions of the guide, and reading materials or documents of company
These are not only the first important step but also a good chance for me to understand more about how the company works, to avoid mistakes in the process of working
In the next week, my tasks were:
- Classify and arrange English bills, receipts, reports, contracts, translate and type the company’s texts and documents
Those tasks help me collect some useful documents and necessary information about the company and make me more active and improve typing skill
- Find some Vietnamese order-forms and translate them into English
These are some simple documents which help me make accquaince of speciality vocabularies
In the third week:
- Collect, select and type the company’s English documents By collecting and
selecting documents, I got many experiences in gathering information and translate specialty vocabulary skills
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speaking skill and more confident
- Arrange different business documents and put them in the order: Normally, it is
not easy to classify types of business document This task helps me realize and distinguish them in wrong orders
In the fourth week:
- Translate the company’s scale map and show the relationships between them: It
was practiced as a translating skill, in which I can realize some function vocabularies and relationships between them
- Help some foreign customers understand the content in the placards’ company Sometime, exchange views of the company with foreign partners: In this task,
my difficulty is vocabulary source Therefore, it is a good idea for me to convey some concepts or something by using gestures and imitation skills It
is also useful in the communication It helps the listener understand rightly
In almost week of the internship:
- Translate some short contracts: It is a more difficult task It requires suitable
and exact using of vocabulary, grammatical structure I had learnt many complex structures and specialty vocabularies
- Translate some longer and more complex bills, contracts: I had many
experiences from gathering information and translating specialty vocabularies They are the different signs to recognize them and how to use good a structure to express a complex sentence
4 Suggestions
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5 Internship evidences
THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
INTERNSHIP EVALUATION
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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