Very good Program Components, Supportive Staff

Ratings
Overall
5
Growth: 5
Support: 5
Fun: 5
Housing: 5
Safety: 5
Review

For all 78 of us in Shanghai for summer 2015, it was a memorable opportunity to know China better and also pursue our various opportunities while networking. I joined CIP’s summer to remember campaign trail for a 4 month internship. It was not bad after all!
I had an opportunity to intern as an assistant to the Marketing Manager of Havas and in charge of digital Marketing and content creation. With my host company, working environment was fun and very modern. There were swimming pools at the roof top with gymnasium on the 24th floor. There were also more recreational floors for workers who got overloaded with duties to refresh. I felt this placement was just right because I love working out. I spend my 1 hour out of my 1.5 hour break to run on the belt and plat table tennis with other staff. In fact this was helpful to the corporate culture of the team. We got on well with each other and pick competitions at our leisure. The spread of operations and the coverage of my job roles were awesome. I worked on several sports product promotion campaigns by creating sharable contents on social media and well as designing an engaging content to drive awareness. I had massive success with this as I had previous knowledge of social media and content promotion. The young generation in China are obsessed with fitness and this gets them enthusiastic about sports products. I learnt to use Social Media in China and how local promotions are done in the Chinese way.
The networking events got me thinking I could make a solid career launch in China but unfortunately, my host company was not hiring staff but at a local meetup, an organization made me an offer which I thought was cool. So I came back to compete my thesis and return to China. In the meantime, I get some cash for doing some mop up jobs for my host company which pays me very well.
I must say CIP played a good role in securing the later job contract from my Manager. Alfred and his Team know what they are about.

Would you recommend this program?
Yes, I would
Year Completed
2015
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