My Experience Of My Internship By Beverly Hills Cab Company

I started my internship by Beverly Hills Cab Company from September 2015. The company is committed to serve their stakeholders, such as customers, vendors, and employees with courtesy, reliability, and quality. The Company is a multi-purpose cab company that serves in different areas, such as airport service, tours, medical visits, a day or night on the town, senior services, wheelchair accessible van, errands, and hotel transport. The company has eight office employees, and fluctuating number of drivers. As I mentioned earlier I started my internship in the Company in early September and finished it in mid November 2015. I was accountant in a manufacturing company-a textile company- in my country of origin over ten years. I was in charge …show more content…
At times, when I was not loaded with heavy tasks, I tried to organize and sort some files of my office to not consume considerable of time over finding tiny information. This attitude gave the other the misunderstanding that I would have to organize their files as well. I recall that once the lady who was hired recently asked me to organize her files, and office the day she was not at work. I didn’t say anything to her, but went directly to the accountant and asked her whether this is defined in the realm of accounts payable clerk responsibilities or not. I told the accountant that if this is my responsibility I would do it with great pleasure. I experienced another challenge in that business, since everyone knew that I would be there for a short period, some of them would ask me to do their assigned administrative tasks, or the accounts receivable clerk would call me to help her in their work as much as I can. After my request from the accountant of the Company regarding to clarify the scope of my duties, she nicely threw a meeting and explained to everyone my duties as an intern. This position gave me the opportunity to be in direct touch with the vendors, to talk with them and reconcile some issues. In that short time I could develop a professional network skill in the work field. The task of communication with some vendors assigned to me after three weeks of being …show more content…
As I knew the gained academic knowledge is just the fundament of our prospective career in a professional setting. These are hard skills that we gain during academic years; however, there are soft skills that we need to improve them in a professional setting, and there is no way to improve them but being in a real work field. During the internship I recognized that I need to enhance my communication skills. I could handle the conversations but I needed to improve the accounting language used in the conversation, which I tried to overcome