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<\/h3>\nHana Salihodzic studied IT in Salzburg and is currently taking a Master\u2019s degree in Media Informatics in Vienna. As part of the High Potential Programme at TU Wien, the Technical University of Vienna, she completed a two-month internship at Porsche Informatik \u2013 and instantly won over our colleagues with her openness, eagerness to learn and straightforward manner. Here Michaela Alker interviews her \u201cbest intern in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n
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<\/h3>\nHana:\u00a0<\/strong>The Porsche Informatik job description covered precisely the subject matter of interest to me. I wanted to gain experience in the field of \u201cuser experience\u201d, because this was a perfect match for my field of study. At the job interview, I quickly realised that I wanted to work at Porsche Informatik \u2013 if I got the OK from them.<\/p>\n I spent my previous internships at Red Bull and Servus TV and now I wanted to see something different, gather new experiences and find out how other large corporations tick and operate.<\/p>\n It was very pleasant, friendly and open. I particularly liked the fact that we were immediately on first name terms, and I was told that everyone addresses each other informally at Porsche Informatik, even the directors. I found that great. I felt a sense of warmth, friendliness and strong motivation in the interview and it was fun as well. Everything was explained to me, I felt comfortable right away and knew immediately: If I get an offer, the decision will be very easy for me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n (laughs)\u00a0<\/em>From the very beginning, it was fascinating and well-organised. I was amazed at the scale of the project: In the final conversion phase, over 30,000 users in 27 countries will be working on the new Digital Workplace!<\/p>\n I found it particularly cool that, from day one, I was part of the team and fully integrated with my own area of responsibility. As an intern, you are normally given tasks that nobody else wants to take on. But here my remit was to support the project from a communication perspective. This was a big challenge, but just the job for me, to be given so much responsibility. It was also awesome that I could make suggestions that were then implemented.<\/p>\n Something else I noticed in this project: Never before had I seen employees being offered so much support and assistance when converting to new systems. It was tremendous how everyone in the teams endeavoured to ensure that everything fitted the bill for users and worked well. That was simply astounding.<\/p>\n As I said before, being on first name terms with everyone was really pleasant. Being there for each other, even when everyone is under enormous stress and pressure. All my colleagues were always friendly and helpful \u2013 I was never rebuffed or brushed off. I just received excellent support. I never had the feeling that I was a burden. Quite the contrary, I was fully involved and challenged in the positive sense. In addition, I had the opportunity to contribute in many areas of the project.<\/p>\n It was also awesome to collaborate directly with external companies and agencies \u2013 that was a thrilling experience. And the lunch menus were so tasty!<\/p>\n The friendly interaction with my \u201csuperior\u201d was really great. I felt very well cared for \u2013 excellent teamwork I would say!<\/p>\n No. Despite really intensive consideration, I can\u2019t think of anything negative at all!<\/p>\n Yes, definitely! In the IT field, I think it\u2019s really important to get to see things from the users\u2019 perspective as well. To learn how to give them good support, how to deal with them and how to keep them satisfied. If you don\u2019t have any customer contact then you can\u2019t understand the customer’s needs. Knowing how to deal with users is important for the acceptance of a new development. Evaluating design decisions with user groups is therefore vital for the success of a good project or product. Only if you have seen the user\u2019s side can you really develop something purposefully. A great deal can be learned in this field at Porsche Informatik.<\/p>\n The different options that we offered the users, and also how to communicate with customers in general, how to reach out to the users correctly in order to develop systems that are a perfect fit for the users and with which they are also happy to work \u2013 all these things I learned about here in project teamwork.<\/p>\n In my case, it was a new IT portal for the Digital Workplace that I was working on. The IT portal was established to make the many new pieces of information available quickly and easily to users. One of my contributions was to prepare several user guidelines for this.<\/p>\n Thank you for the instructive, fun and interesting time! Thank you for the experience that I gained. It was great that I could play a part in such a large project.<\/p>\n Hana Salihodzic studied IT in Salzburg and is currently taking a Master\u2019s degree in Media Informatics in Vienna. As part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[204,205,198,202,203,146,197],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-communication","tag-customer-feedback","tag-digital-workplace","tag-intern","tag-internship","tag-praktikum-en","tag-user-experience"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digilabitalia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How did you like the interview?<\/h3>\n
Thank you very much for the compliment! The interview was also very enjoyable for my colleagues and me. You made a very likeable impression, and I immediately felt that you were the right person for the post.<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nTo be honest, you came to us during a period of upheaval, full of new challenges. Phase\u00a02 of our Digital Workplace project had just started and we all had to first get our bearings and adapt to the new way of working together. The MoC (Management of Change) Team that you belonged to here had also only just been established. How did it feel to you?<\/h3>\n
What were your first general impressions of Porsche Informatik?<\/h3>\n
Is there anything that you liked in particular?<\/h3>\n
Thank you very much, Hana. I\u2019ll “pass that on”. \ud83d\ude09<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nDid you experience anything that you didn\u2019t like or wasn\u2019t so positive?<\/h3>\n
Thank you, that\u2019s good to know and will definitely motivate other interns as well.<\/h3>\n
Would you recommend an internship at Porsche Informatik to other students?<\/h3>\n
I can only agree with you on that. The customer perspective, understanding the customers is unbelievably important for successful projects.<\/h3>\n
To what extent can you use the experience gained at Porsche Informatik in your studies?<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nIs there anything else that you would like to say to us at Porsche Informatik?<\/h3>\n
Dear Hana, for us and for me in particular, it was also an unbelievable pleasure to work together with you. A great compliment to you \u2013 you found your feet and became an integral part of the team amazingly quickly. You were also a terrific substitute for me during my vacation.<\/h3>\n
With all my heart, I wish you all the very best for the future, and you will always be welcome here!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"