Working Experience at Population Services and Training Centre as Corporate Program Management Unit Member

Abstract

As a student of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Daffodil International University I am supposed to work in an organization for two to three month at intern position relevant to my academics. Objective of this internship was to bridge between academic knowledge with industrial practice. After a while I got an opportunity to work with a renowned development organization named Population Services and Training Center. Internship Report on “Working Experience at Population Services and Training Centre as Corporate Program Management Unit Member” required by my academic supervisor Dr. Sheikh Mohammad Shafiul Islam, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. The purpose of this report is to describe my learnings and experiences during my internship period at PSTC. Internship means a period of time during which a student or new graduates gets practical experience. I got an opportunity to work with PSTC, a leading development organization working for 42 years in Bangladesh. I have worked there as corporate program management unit member under the supervision of the Head of Program Dr. Md. Mahbubul Alam. I have involved with the program development team and collaborated with all kind of activities at PSTC. I have learned the functions of a development organization. I have involved in program presentation organized by PSTC, prepared numbers of document, through monitoring visit at field project, reviewed documents and projects reports, collaborated with technical proposal writing team, prepared power point presentations and participated in board meetings. I have learned organizational behavior from my co-workers. I have experienced so many things during the internship period. Working with PSTC program unit enriched my technical knowledge on research methodology, development approaches, communication interventions and communication tools and techniques. Working in a team which is diversified in nature, time management, taking responsibility about my actions and decisions skills has been improved during this internship period. I have work with various ICT tools and techniques like, Microsoft office, photo and video editing software and many more. Academic learnings are relevant with industrial work but there are huge difference while I am tried to do any activities. I tried to learn the framework of a development organization. During this time I have updated some of my skills like decision making, presentation skills, team work and collaboration, technical proposal writing and many more. I think this internship experience will add values to my curriculum vitea and my career prospects. I have finished this report by SWOT analysis of PSTC where I figured out the strength, weakness, opportunity and threats of the organization. I also recommend that industry should be more careful and be serious about interns.