Sales Intern Review

I did this internship as a gap year during my Master Degree. It was a good decision with a look back. Verizon brought me a real and longtime experience in addition to professionalism, knowledge of Telecommunications and work skills in general.

My colleagues were really nice with me during all the year. I appreciated a lot my team and also my neighbors in the open space. It was also a good experience to work on different projects with different peoples. You have to deal with it and take the best of everybody.

I particularly appreciated my manager during this experience. He knew how to driving me during all my missions and always tried to gives me interesting works. He was strong and professional in certain circumstances but also tolerant and comprehensive in other ones. He absorbed really well the stress of the team during challenging times and it was very instructive to watching that with a external point of view.

It was quit hard at the beginning because I had to assimilate all the solutions and software used every day. Also I was in a Sales Team so it was an every month’s competition. I was quite busy some time but I know it will be like that after graduate and I will have to do my proof during my daily work so I am happy I experienced this situation in Verizon. It was a kind of overview.

Before doing my internship, I thought it will be hard to get some responsibility in a global company because of the hierarchy and all the processes. But finally they gave me the opportunity to manage some of it.

Thanks to this experience, I finally had in my hand a whole processes that I didn't have in my older sales internships. It was a good training because I could put in practice all the theories I learned at school.

Very professional. I was proud to come every day and I also loved to work in La Defense. It is pushing you out of your school atmosphere and you feel like you are in the middle of all the big decisions of Paris companies

It went well with my summer holidays. It was maybe a little bit long but I can also understand there is lot of processes to validate, and particularly to be hired in a foreign company.

Management missions and back up of my sales team.

It looks quite hard to enter as a junior in the French office. Lot of hired peoples has MBAs and/or some years of experience in others Telecoms companies. However, it seems that there are some opportunities abroad.

There were others interns in Sales and Marketing. I will keep in touch with lot of them!

The area was definitely a work one! With lot of restaurants, a big mall, some touristic monuments etc. The cost of living is quite expensive, but it is a point which is hard to avoid in Paris.

It is really close to the center of Paris and well disserved. Nightlife is pretty cool there.

I had the luck for example to do a golf event organized by the company. It was a good memory and I could appreciate some colleagues outside of working life. Also, there is a group of peoples who do indoor football and running every Friday during the mid-time and you are always welcome to come with them!