Interns Impress

Wow, I have just spent two hours listening to 17 interns from the Massey University School of Business present their experiences from their recent internships with several local businesses.  We were lucky enough to have one of these interns, Phoebe Lang, at the BCC - she assisted on the Innovate project this year.  Of course after Innovate finished we realised she was too valuable to let her leave so she is still with us, assisting with marketing activities and planning for Innovate 2012.  We couldn't have run Innovate without her and it was really great hearing what she got out of her experience at BCC and how much she has learnt.  We have certainly seen her develop and grow in confidence and she is a very valuable member of the BCC team.
I was very impressed with many of the other interns too, some had been on marketing internships like Phoebe, others in business, accounting or economics.  All of them spoke highly of their experiences, outlining how much they had learnt and how valuable the work experience has been for them.  You could see from their presentations and also the appreciative looks of their employers in the audience just how much the businesses had gained from having them on board too.  It's the ultimate win-win.  If you are a business considering hiring an intern for the summer I can thoroughly recommend it.  The students I saw were all very intelligent, eloquent and motivated and their hard work and achievements for the companies involved have been quite outstanding.  Having an extra pair of hands  fresh eyes, and a new perspective from some of the top business students in the country has allowed several of the businesses involved (BCC included) to complete projects that would otherwise have been impossible.


Anyone who is despairing at the "youth of today" should get along to Massey and meet some of these students.  You can't help but be impressed.