As part of your studies, you may be required to find an internship in Spain. This experience abroad can add a great deal of value to your CV and open up other opportunities for you as you pursue your professional training.
But an internship in Spain is more than just a work experience, it also requires you to write a report on the skills you have acquired during this period.
Writing a Spanish internship report can be requested by the company where you worked, by the university or by your future employer. To write a proper internship report, you need to follow specific steps and adhere to standardized writing guidelines.
In this article we give you a quick overview of the key points to develop in a Spanish internship report. Find out how to write it properly and use it to your advantage in future professional experiences.
First of all, your report should be clear, precise, concrete and objective. We discourage you from using over-familiar formulations and personal assessments: “I think”, “I would like”, “I desire”, “I behaved like this”, and so on.
In addition, you need to use technical and sustained vocabulary. Try to include technical terms related to the Spanish language.
Replace these subjective expressions with more scientific, detached terms such as “following observations”, “the analysis of the situation showed that”, “I deduced that”, “the process used highlights”, “the situation was as follows”, etc.
There are different types of internship report. Depending on what is expected by the university or company, you can produce a descriptive, interpretative or demonstrative document.
For example, a descriptive report focuses more on the details and articulation of the events that shaped your professional experience. This type of report needs to be factual and as uninterpretative as possible.
You need to stick to the facts and basic information. For example, an internship report for a retail chain in Spain may require a very descriptive document.
The interpretative internship report will require more personal involvement in your narrative, and you’ll need to demonstrate critical analysis and present conclusions about what you’ve experienced.
In most cases, this type of Spanish internship report requires you to establish a problem that you’ll have to confront with basic hypotheses.
For example, if your internship is with a school or a marketing company, you may need to provide an analysis of the evaluation of teaching practices.
To produce a quality internship report, you need to follow specific steps that will improve the coherence of your work. The steps are as follows:
The objectives of your internship report must be precisely defined before you begin your experience in a company or institution. When you write your report, all you have to do is answer them as objectively as possible.
Ask yourself the following questions:
If you’re a French student looking for an internship with a Spanish company, you’ll probably have to pay even more attention to the resources available to you.
An internship report is built up over the course of the experience, and you shouldn’t wait until the last day to start writing. Think about it from day one, and collect all the documents you need for your report.
Get in touch with resource people who can provide you with relevant information. Ask for access to software and documentation.
Human resources, fact sheets and material sources are your raw materials and guarantee that your internship report will be a success. Once you’ve collected the documentation and have a thorough understanding of your professional environment, you can move on to the analysis phase and organize your work.
The evaluation of data and the apprehension of new skills acquired during the internship can take place outside the internship. If necessary, consolidate your knowledge, reorganize it and start drafting your written report.
Leave yourself a few days before the end of the internship to clarify certain subtleties with the company or your colleagues.
The writing phase involves following the three basic parts that form the backbone of your internship report:
Finally, limit yourself to a predetermined number of pages, so as not to overshoot your objectives.
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