Accounting Internship leads to paid position

March 3rd , 2010 → 1:45 am @ Michael

Commerce student Viral Shah recently completed an internship placement with boutique accounting firm Cafferelli and Associates, in Perth, but will go back and work for them as a paid employee in the new year.  Viral found the experience extremely enjoyable and he “got a whole new professional approach” which he feels will be extremely beneficial to him post-graduation.
Viral explains:

“I had no prior experience of working in a typical corporate world before I went for the internship.  I have always excelled in education but when I went for work the first day, I was taken aback with how absolutely things differed from what we learned from the textbooks.
I met a whole lot of lovely people during my internship and I reckon networking is very vital in the business field. I started getting to know about how to behave in a workplace, how to work with client documents, how to act in a meeting with the principal and how to work with the customers.”

Caffarelli and Associates is a boutique accounting firm in West Perth, who’s clients range from individuals and family run businesses to large privately held companies, locally and nationally. They specialise in property, high end retail, hospitality, media, agriculture,technology, manufacturing, professional services and construction, also offering special attention to the arts and entertainment industries and not for profit organizations.  They enjoyed hosting Viral, and look forward to working with him this year as well.
Summing up his experience, Viral said:

“I would personally recommend such internships to all I can because they abridge ones way into the professional world and Australia is in the need of people who have prior experience and are also ready for dealing with people.  The certificate you get after finishing your internship comes in handy when you are searching for your career job and sometimes you can also score a job with your host organisation like I did!”

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AELC Internship leading to Export Contract

January 25th , 2010 → 3:08 am @ Michael

“A wonderful learning experience” is how Roger Barroga describes his internship with the organization Landgate.  Roger, a PhD student at the University of Western Australia, wanted his internship to give him an Australian perspective on his field of study – remote satellite Imaging for agriculture.  Landgate were approached by the AELC team because the respected government organization has a special unit which develops and manages remote sensing technology and has contracts throughout Asia to distribute the data produced.

During his internship Roger worked within two different departments at Landgate, learning about their services and how they are delivered to help small local farmers in WA.  This gave him the opportunity to meet with many of the senior people involved in that area of the business and learn from them.

Roger was invited to give a small seminar to his division about how satellite remote sensing could help manage the risks involved with rice production back in the Philippines.  This presentation was so well received that Roger also developed a draft proposal for Landgate to provide a basic rice production management system for the Philippines Department of Agriculture, for whom he works.  So, an international contract helping rice farmers in the Philippines could come about because of Roger’s short internship placement.

Summing up his experience, Roger said “It has been a wonderful learning experience, both on the subject matter, and as a worker joining the rush hour and office life in Australia.”

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