Participating in the IIP Madrid program has been one of my favorite experiences at Pitt. Professionally, I have gained a lot of experience at my internship placement. I was able to work with several teams at my company in different departments and was able to get a better idea of what I’, good at and…
Author: meloys
Defining success
During my final week at my internship in Madrid, I have been working on wrapping up all of the projects I’ve been working on. One the last day of the program, I have a final presentation to the marketing and consulting team on market research that I have been doing and have to submit all…
Developing hard and soft skills
During my internship I have definitely developed some hard skills that will be good for me to have in the future. One thing that I have learned how to do is reading and writing code for the Impact Hub’s website. My supervisor asked me to help with translating the main pages of Impact Hub Madrid’s…
Nuevos estillos de liderazgo
Before this internship, I did not have a lot of leadership experience. The closest was in my last internship that I did in London through the GBI program where I was working as a marketing intern for a small consulting company. At the time, my supervisor who was the founder of the company was starting…
Professional Development in Spain
One area that I know my hard skills are lacking is in technology. I have never been a math or science person and for me any skills with IT or programming falls under that category. I have only had experience with anything super technical in an information systems class that I took at Pitt and…
Adaptación a la cultura española
I haven’t had too difficult of a time adapting to the workplace culturally outside of two things. One of the things I found is that Spanish people do tend to be more forward about things in the U.S. that would be considered inappropriate to comment on in the workspace and that has taken some getting…
Navigating Uncertainty in a Spanish office
In my internship so far, I have experienced a fair amount of ambiguity. The main thing that I have been struggling with is not having a direct supervisor. Since I am working across marketing, communications, consulting, and sometimes event coordination, there is not one specific person that I report to. The positive side of that…
Managing Time Across Departments
In my internship with Impact Hub Madrid, I’m not going to be working in one specific field. In the upcoming weeks I will be working with the consulting team, with marketing, and with one of the event coordinators. Since I am not working in exclusively marketing or communications, this means that I will be working…
¡Hola Madrid!
My name is Sophie Meloy, and I am a senior at Pitt that will be graduating after the IIP program is complete. Am studying global management and Spanish with a certificate in global studies concentrated in cultural dynamics. This summer I am going to be participating in the IIP Madrid program. I chose to participate…
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