This week we welcome Guest Blogger Jacob Osborne, student at Villanova High School who shares his experience as an intern at AlphaKOR.
As an intern,
you may think of many things when you start at a new location. Will you fit in?
Will you get the respect you deserve? Can you do this? I’m here to tell you,
yes you will.
As an intern
working for AlphaKOR I have been able to experience so many more things than I
could just sitting in a classroom. As my final days here at the company
countdown I have felt the need to sit here and reflect on what an amazing
experience this has been. I have been able to experience a new sort of environment
that I had never experienced before while in high school.
So the mindset
of an intern when first entering a company, especially if it’s their first
company they’ve worked for, can be quite scary. You never know what you’ll
experience or what the environment will be. I had many concerns and a scared
mindset entering into AlphaKOR as well, but quickly you will learn that there
is nothing to fear. As long as you go into your job every day with a positive
mindset and a will to work hard and get things done there will be no issue.
I am not a very
extroverted person, but interning I feel has helped me get out of my shell a bit.
It has forced me to meet new people for different jobs and for social interactions.
I have never been very good at meeting new people, but the people here did such
an amazing job at making me feel like family that I had almost no issue at all.
AlphaKOR is a very social and open company that allows you to talk to people at
the same time as completing work giving you the feeling like you are never
alone. So many computer companies have large cubicles blocking out essentially
everyone, but in AlphaKOR you just have short glass dividers allowing you to
socialize while working on your computer.
When I first arrived here, I had many challenges I had to overcome. I had my social problem along
with being in a completely new environment. I also had the challenge of needing
to complete work to a very high standard. AlphaKOR never lets anything that’s
“just-OK” go through. I needed to be able to work at the high level required so
that things I did were acceptable and not just a waste of time. This is one
thing that I feel I did quite well and adapted to fairly quickly.
Personally my
current experiences at AlphaKOR are amazing. My hope for the future is to go to
university and get a degree in computer science. At AlphaKOR I didn’t work in
the computer programming department; I worked in the marketing department. I feel even though this isn’t what I’d like to go into, it allowed me to see a
larger picture of the company as a whole. Once you join a company if you
are just doing programming that’s more than likely all you’ll see, but this way
I was able to experience all the other factors that happen within a company.
AlphaKOR has taught me many things and one of them is to never count yourself
short. Coming in I felt that since I was only an intern I didn’t necessarily
have the knowledge to complete tasks to the same level as others in the
company who have degrees, but I quickly learned that through determination and
hard work I can complete any task given to me no matter how big or how small.
Overall I feel
that my time spent at AlphaKOR was a great success. I had never known what
it was like to be at a company and have to complete tasks, or what it was like
to be in a real work environment. I feel the experiences I gained and people I
have met will carry on with me for many years to come and will help me in getting
a job with this sort of environment in the future. Finally I’d like to say
thank you to AlphaKOR for giving me an experience I will never forget!
Jacob Osbourne, Guest Blogger
Student at Villanova High School
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