Let me explain what I'm doing during my internship.
Just to remind, I'm working in the Corporate Centre of Bank BPH - third biggest Polish bank, recently bought by Unicredit group. The centre provides banking services to big companies. I went there because I wanted to see how the corporate banking looks like. It seemed to be a good opportunity.
I'm slightly dissapointed though. Mainly because nobody cares about my learning (and I'm skipping classes to be there). Only by making effort myself I managed to learn a little bit about the practical aspects of granting loans with different collaterals, providing bid bonds, performance bonds. However, most of the time I'm doing plenty of administrative work acting temporarily, (as I was told 3 weeks ago... but somehow it keeps being prolonged) as the director's assistant. Additionaly, around 2 or 3 times a week I'm doing industry analysis to be attached to credit applications (which means nothing more than writing some kind of a short report about the market size, trends and key success factors, the report based on the info I find in the Internet). Plus, on daily basis, I'm filling in the templates of contracts.
Ok, I've never done something like this before, so still there's some learning and I shouldn't have expected much more... It's just that.... if you squeezed all that, I would be able to learn the new things in 3 days and I'm staying there 2 months:-/ What a waste of time. One month left.
The good thing is that the bank is in the process of merging with the second big in Poland, so I'm able to see a little bit of the process from inside. The other good thing is that people are nice:-) and as somebody recently pointed it out they have good coffee there;-)
My mixed feelings probably come from the fact that in AIESEC I used to try really hard to have the best effect possible(the others did the same) and learning was there all the time. In this job it's different, therefore I know I need to check some other options before I decide on my future career path.
Just to remind, I'm working in the Corporate Centre of Bank BPH - third biggest Polish bank, recently bought by Unicredit group. The centre provides banking services to big companies. I went there because I wanted to see how the corporate banking looks like. It seemed to be a good opportunity.
I'm slightly dissapointed though. Mainly because nobody cares about my learning (and I'm skipping classes to be there). Only by making effort myself I managed to learn a little bit about the practical aspects of granting loans with different collaterals, providing bid bonds, performance bonds. However, most of the time I'm doing plenty of administrative work acting temporarily, (as I was told 3 weeks ago... but somehow it keeps being prolonged) as the director's assistant. Additionaly, around 2 or 3 times a week I'm doing industry analysis to be attached to credit applications (which means nothing more than writing some kind of a short report about the market size, trends and key success factors, the report based on the info I find in the Internet). Plus, on daily basis, I'm filling in the templates of contracts.
Ok, I've never done something like this before, so still there's some learning and I shouldn't have expected much more... It's just that.... if you squeezed all that, I would be able to learn the new things in 3 days and I'm staying there 2 months:-/ What a waste of time. One month left.
The good thing is that the bank is in the process of merging with the second big in Poland, so I'm able to see a little bit of the process from inside. The other good thing is that people are nice:-) and as somebody recently pointed it out they have good coffee there;-)
My mixed feelings probably come from the fact that in AIESEC I used to try really hard to have the best effect possible(the others did the same) and learning was there all the time. In this job it's different, therefore I know I need to check some other options before I decide on my future career path.
