I accomplished a lot during these months at Transvision. I can honestly say now that this experience has ended that I feel like I am a different person than when it began. I learned so much about myself, my career goals and aspirations, other people and cultures, and life in general. This internship didn’t just teach me professional skills, it also exposed me to different cultural customs and values and gave me a glimpse into how people live around the world.
One major skill that I feel I developed thoroughly was my ability to communicate in a professional environment. In addition to professional skills such as communication and time management skills, I also developed existing and learned new relevant career-specific hard skills as well, such as with software programs like the Adobe Suite and Microsoft Suite. Most of my daily tasks were centered around projects for the company’s clients for which I used software programs such as Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Audition. The projects that I worked on ranged from creating motion graphic visuals for companies like Microsoft and Spanish bank CaixaBank, to editing and piecing together audio clips to create onboard messages for the Spanish expansion of Italian train company Iryo.
I believe that I will be leaving Spain a much more fluent and cultured Spanish speaker, as every day that I was here I learned something new about the Spanish language or culture. After this internship experience this summer, I believe I have a much more solid idea of what I want my career goals to be. I also have a better idea of what my strengths and weaknesses are in a career and personal context.
Thomas Grigsby
GlobalWorks Internship in Spain, Summer 2022