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One of the most important skills that I have learned during the internship is to report efficiently to Excel. Although I had taken the Excel class at Temple, I did not have experience using Excel for efficient reporting in the real world. Working with Fox Run Brands, I have to report thousands of products on Amazon to Excel to keep track of the growth weekly. That was hectic and confusing at the first time. However, I got used to it and my Excel skills improved a lot.

I agree with Hung when he said Excel is an important skill to have. Excel is a tool my team uses constantly and the Temple excel course did prepare me, but just practicing in it has helped me improve tremendously. Also, my note taking skills have improved. I am constantly jotting things down in my notebook so I can refer back to them. This is important so I am not asking the same things over and over. The one person on my team started out as an intern just like me, so it has helped having her there because she has experienced what I am going through and can help answer any questions I have on how to succeed in this internship.

Excel is the most crucial skill in business. In my internship, I use excel to do some simple analysis and data cleaning for thousands of transactions. Without Excel, these processes would take a lot of time and effort.

Luckily, MIS and Fox courses prepare me well to do this internship, so I have a lot of knowledge in hand to do my job. However, one skill I want to work on is communication in project management. The internship focuses on manage launch campaigns, and we are almost always on a tight schedule. I took MIS 3535 and gained some experience with project managing, but I still have to practice and learn more techniques to effectively communicate with others.

I haven’t found a person that I definitely want on my site yet. Upper management like VPs and the C-suite would be nice.

I am not using a lot of Excel right now, but I definitely agree that it’s a crucial one to be proficient at.

In my position right now, the most important skill to have is asking for work. As an intern in a large company, your manager may not know what to give you or how you can fit into the team yet, so they might not trust you with much work. However, big and intimidating assignments are necessary for growth. So recently, I have been practicing approaching my manager, my colleagues, and higher-ups to explain what I am willing to learn and what I want to help with. When talking to the next person, it’s good to use your previous work as a pivot.

My goal as a moment is to find the person in my team with deep involvement in Marketing tech and a way to weave my role as a Strategist into the project he/she is working on. Our CEO and executives are very open, so I aim to gain the attention of at least one by mid-July.