Internship at Forest: An Opportunity Like No Other

This article was written by Vada Dihati, Corporate Communications Intern.

An internship provides students with valuable hands-on opportunities that will help shape their future career paths. It offers an insight into a real-life working environment, allowing future graduates to experience the bittersweet of a professional career yet gratifying to fulfil the never-ending demand of the industry.  

Transitioning from college life into a career isn’t easy. It might be terrifying to mingle around professional-looking colleagues with a clean-cut appearance, tailored blazer, khaki pants and a tie. It takes courage and motivation to grow up and come out of the shell to establish a go-getter reputation early on.  

Throughout internship programs, students are also able to expand their networking through meeting new people at the office and connecting with other key industry leaders. It is a long-term investment for a professional career, and it takes time to yield great results to come.  

Most importantly, internships help students to figure out their passion and which direction they would like to head into. At Forest Interactive, interns are empowered to pursue their personal goals by entrusting them with hands-on tasks with detailed guidance from supervisors and actively participating in the company’s events. 

Let’s hear what our interns have to say! 

Here are some interesting facts about being an intern at Forest Interactive:  

1. You will have the opportunity to build global networking and connections since Forest Interactive is an organization with 16 regional offices across the globe.  Interns will experience remote working with talents from over 20 nationalities which consequently will improve their cross-cultural understanding in a professional setting. 
2. As a workplace that values diversity and inclusivity, English is used as the main medium of communication across the company. By communicating in English every day, it will improve interns’ proficiency in the language.  

To ensure business continuity while safeguarding talents’ health and wellbeing, the company has rolled out hybrid working. Talents are encouraged to work from home and may go to the office when necessary. This initiative is to ensure that talents, interns included, are able to work productively while prioritizing their health.  

Here are some tips from Annita, Marketing Intern at Forest Interactive Indonesia, on how to stay productive while working from home.

An internship journey is the metaphor for a whole new world — something that is probably too ambiguous to make a clear head start yet you crave to yield the result of your blood, sweat and tears. The unstinting efforts to shape you as a novice professional worker. You will certainly face some difficulties, but that’s totally fine.  

Cummings, a well-known American poet, once said:

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

To all interns — put your heads up, be courageous and grab the opportunities as you like! Those who succeed shall endure to the end.