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Joyce, a Taiwanese student at Macquarie University in Sydney, interned in business development at a public company in Bangkok, Thailand. Her work covered business analysis, market research, marketing strategy, partnership agreements and sales promotions.
Joyce: Business Development Intern in Bangkok
Macquarie University
Business Development
Bangkok
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Day to day
It's a really good chance to know what exactly you want to do in the future.
Intern
As a business development intern at a public company in Bangkok, Joyce worked on business analysis, market research, marketing strategies, partnership agreements and some sales promotion activities.
The highlight was her team: “They give me very good advice for my work,” and thanks to them she now has a sense of what she wants to specialize in when she goes back to Australia.
On AIP: they helped her find exactly what she wanted in an internship, and her contact at AIP was “really helpful and very responsive to every email”.
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Life in the city
“People here are so friendly and offering help,” and Joyce found the culture relaxed and polite. The food was a first: “I didn’t eat any spicy food before I came to Thailand, but I think now I can take my spice.”
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What to know before you land
It’s a very good opportunity to know more about yourself and your capabilities. It’s not too stressful: you can go to work and travel at the same time. It really helps you expand your networking, especially overseas, so it’s a really, really good chance to know what exactly you want to do in the future.
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Hi, I’m Joyce. I’m from Taiwan, currently studying at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. My major is finance and business information systems. Currently I’m an intern at [company] in Bangkok, which is a public company. My main duties are business analysis, market research, marketing strategies, partnership agreements and some sales promotion activities. One of the highlights of my work is that I have a very good team. They give me very good advice for my work, and so I kind of know what I’m going to specialize in when I go back to Australia.
People here are so friendly and offering help, and the culture here is relaxing and polite. [unclear] I didn’t eat any spicy food before I came to Thailand, but I think now I can take my spice.
I really appreciate the service of AIP. They helped me to find exactly what I want for an internship, and also my representative, Benson, is really helpful and very responsive to every email I have sent. Also, [unclear] update for any event in Bangkok [unclear].
My advice for future interns: it’s a very good opportunity to know more about yourself and your capabilities. If you are interested, you can also [unclear]. It’s not too stressful, we can go to work and travel at the same time, and [unclear] does really help you to expand your networking, especially overseas. So it’s a really, really good chance to know more, and to know what exactly you want to do in the future.
Transcript from YouTube’s automatic captions, lightly edited. Company name removed. [unclear] marks words the captions didn’t catch.
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