Strengths
- Everyday of my internship I met a lot of foreigners. So English is very important for my working especially speaking. I extremely used English.
- I have the ability to cope with failures and try to learn from my mistakes. Talking about mistakes, I think it is a good experience to teach myself and I’ll know which is right or wrong.
- I’m a self-confident person. Every time I could work without any shyness. Importantly, my job would be ably achieved.
- I was trained by proficient guides to work in the ship. They taught me about speaking with guests, time arrangement, giving tour information. Sometimes they let me perform lonely. I have done everything to serve and give information to the tourists by myself. It was a very good training that helped me to work skillfully in a short time.
- I’m quite talkative so it’s very easy to be intimate with the people and importantly, my tasks would be easily successful.
Weaknesses
- In Phuket, the most of foreigners are Russian. Someone cannot speak and understand English at all. This is my serious problem because I can speak Thai and English only.
- My listening English while talking on the phone with the foreigners is my problem. Sometimes a person who called to the office was a foreigner. I can understand just some words because I’m not much skillful in listening English on the phone.
- I like to make sure that my work is perfect, so I tend to perhaps spend too much time for checking it. However, it’s a good way to ensure everything is done correctly the first time.
Opportunities
- It was my good time to gain some good English skills. I used this opportunity to practice more and more.
- For this internship, I think it’s very good to develop myself to be a proficient tour guide. All of experiences I got from this tour company will be necessary and useful for my working as a tour guide in the future.
Treats
- Sometimes I confronted with the irritated guests, I was really upset but I needed to be patient because I didn’t want to have any problem with them. Moreover, I might get some disadvantages to my internship so it was better to control my bad mood.
- While I was working, I met a lot of foreign tourists that came from the different countries. Certainly, they had the different accents. Some accents were really difficult to understand so I needed to say “Pardon” for asking them to speak again.