Are you about to do an internship or are you already in the middle of it? Here you can find out how you should behave during an internship to make a good impression on your boss and colleagues!
Set foot in a company? That works best with an internship so that there is the possibility of being taken on. All the more so. It is more important to make a good impression and to behave appropriately present! A real sensitivity should come first so that you are not considered a reluctant good-for-nothing or the opposite arrogant would-be boss will be remembered when you do the internship have finished.
Be on time
Reliability is the cornerstone of a good working life and good relationships with your colleagues! Therefore, make sure you have agreed working hours and to be punctual at work, especially in the morning. Excuses may still be possible when you arrive late for the first or second time, but then you quickly get a negative stamp!
Show motivation and initiative
As an intern, you are often at the bottom of the corporate chain, which is why their work is probably less central and more likely is remote. Often one is then left out in the information chain or forget, this shouldn’t prevent you from taking the initiative and doing your own thing search! Talk to colleagues and ask them according to tasks or whether help is needed.
Have lunch together
You should from your work colleagues when asked if you want to have lunch with them, say no no way! Enjoy the chance to be integrated and with help from small talk to get to know your colleagues. A rejection would certainly make you feel that as an intern you are only wasting your time. Sit down without wanting to find someone in the office!
Attention: dress code!
Pay attention to what yours at the interview future work colleagues. Nothing makes you bad impression than coming to work with sweatpants, for example, though the colleagues are dressed in “office chic” (unless that would be the “normal dress code” at your workplace). In the financial sector is the dress code is mostly “Business Attire”, with women wearing pantsuits with a blouse and men wearing suits and ties. You shouldn’t be sure what is the dress code of your office environment, then inform yourself by email at your contact person or you can dress up and do something with them. The decision probably not a mistake!
Keep the workplace clean and have utensils under control
Leave your desk and work area behind the way you found it, no one has any reason to believe it to speak to or, in the worst case, to complain to the boss! Also, in-house devices should be handled with care. Take yourself on at the end of each working day, take two minutes, and arrange your workplace. The nice side effect: you come to one every morning decent workplace!
Register and deregister correctly in the event of illness
If you get sick during the internship, that’s not optimal, but not to be changed! Inform your employer over the phone
and officially call in sick. Best to give your team as well, Let me know, but this is enough by e-mail! Helpful for your colleagues is also information about the current status of your activities, so urgent tasks can be taken over and do not remain to lie around until you are well again.
Nobody likes know-it-alls
Don’t forget that you are “only” an intern. Also, for example, if you have specialist knowledge from studying, you should take it back! You are mainly in the company to learn and this you should communicate too. You can still contribute your knowledge if you have creative ideas, but you should pay attention to the permanent employees.
Say goodbye with a thank you
When your internship is over, you can contact one thank you in a small gesture (of course only when you are comfortable). It doesn’t have to be a real walkout, but a goodbye cake is definitely appropriate.