Harper Irwin

The next day we also had the opportunity to interview multiple staff from the Nippon Kanzai Co, with Nippon Kanzai Co being a sub-company within Nippon Kanzai Holdings. We had the chance to interview staff from the sales, property service management and engineering departments for one hour with each department, all the staff were so engaging and really wanted to share their experiences within their day-to-day work life at Nippon Kanzai, as they all prepared presentations, speeches and notes to share which I thought was so considerate and kind. Going into these interview sessions, I prepared lots of questions to ask them, our supervisor for the internship: Anh, explained that the information we gathered from the interviews will be used for the presentations we had to deliver on the last day, so knowing this I prepared lots of questions so I could gather as much information as necessary. Despite my million and one questions the staff all answered them happily, with such in-depth informative answers. Upon reflection this made me learn how much the Japanese staff that I’ve met truly care, have a high work dedication and respect for others, these staff took time out of their busy schedule to not only sit with Australian interns and answer their questions but prepared presentations and material to share with us so we could learn more about their roles and day-to-day life just shows how above and beyond they go, which I really admire and I hope to bring their nature when I enter the workplace environment. Additionally, Anh who was with us for our whole time at Nippon Kanzai was so kind and welcoming, she honestly treated us like we were friends, making it super easy to ask questions and talk to her about anything, on our last day I was talking to Anh and she mentioned that she used to work sales at a technology company and she was asking me technology questions since I study computer science which was super fun to have someone super interested in what I study. I remember mentioning to her, how I love technology and what I study however sometimes the technology-field can be isolating but how I didn’t want to work in that area of technology and I do enjoy working in teams and interacting with people too. Something that stuck with me was her saying “When I see your future I see you as a leader, a high up leader. You’re really good at talking to people”, this truly meant a lot to me as Anh works within human resources so I know I can trust her word when she says that, she didn’t even need to say that and the fact she did just means so much to me. Additionally, it gives me hope as this internship experience is my first-time working within a corporate setting, which is where I want to work in the future. So to know that she has hope in myself succeeding makes me feel more confident within myself.