My experience at SMG Languages - PM Assistant Studio Moretto Group Employee Review

I am an intern at SMG Languages. From my point of view, my internship is an overall negative experience, and I think many things would need to change for them to welcome interns in the best way. It seems like they have accepted too many interns at the time I am there, as we nearly outnumber the permanent employees in the office. This is an issue because many of us don’t get interesting tasks to do, as the tenders, strategias, translations and transcriptions are given to the “oldest” interns (so that they don’t have to train the new ones I guess). Therefore, a month in, and maybe 2 employees know my name at most. The communication can’t be considered a positive aspect either. I don’t have a tutor to explain clearly how to use the software, so the other interns did (if I had to give a positive aspect, I would say: the big intern team we are!! All in the same boat ready to help each other). The project managers are often busy (and I’m not blaming them) and can not allow time to train the interns or even give some tasks to do to help them a bit. We must rely on the manuals and video tutorials given at the start of the internship, but most of them are in Italian, which is a language not every intern speaks. By the way, even if Italian isn’t mandatory, communication is better with the ones that do speak it. In the end I would not recommend this internship to students if they want to learn about project management, because there are few chances they will. Filling contact forms to companies to let them know about them SMG is one task among the others that is only acknowledged in my internship agreement, and yet that’s the only thing I’ve been doing! I know we’re officially “assistants”, but still…