A few months ago, I got the chance of taking part of a challenge arranged by Rotary Club Barcelona Europa, called “Protagonistas del Mañana”. After all the selection process, I finished in second place and as a price; I got the opportunity of working during one week in an international enterprise of Barcelona: VEGA, a German multinational company that by distance, supplies materials for the gastronomic and hotel sectors.
During my work week in VEGA, I did all type of office activities, such as analyze the competence, investigate important factors of some clients, register in a document all the returned product catalogues, investigate the system that use other businesses in their social pages to led the client to comment about the product and reward them for doing it, search some data and statistics about the tourism, the Gross Domestic Product and the hotel and gastronomic tendencies; classify the product-comments of clients according to their level of positivity, and do the sketch design of the next product-catalogue of best-sellers.
Moreover, last Monday 19th of September, I attended a lunch meeting in Barcelona with the two other finalists of the challenge, where the committee of Rotary Club Barcelona wanted to know about our experiences. What I can personally say about mine, is that this has been my first work experience, and I’m so grateful for having had this amazing opportunity just the year before attending the university, as I’ve learned and seen how the reality of businesses is, by seeing at the same time the positive and negative facts that daily occur in enterprises. But most important, I can say I’ve been “learning by doing”, as I believe learning cannot only be academic; it also needs to be social and cultural.
by Marina Moreno (2nd year student)
