19-22 April 2010

This week I will be doing research base work. I have been assigned to handle secondary research for SMBG Malaysia (Self-monitoring blood glucose market). The purpose of this research is to help client to investigate the market trend of self-monitoring blood glucose devices. There are few criteria for this research which is drivers, restraints, market trend, future trend and government initiative.

The drivers are what cause the increase/decrease of diabetes. What are the drivers that drive the trend of diabetes? Restraints are what cause the drivers to happen. And market trend is the prevalence and incident rate of diabetes in the society. Future trend would be the future technology that will be used to drive this diabetes and what new technology has been invented to cure this sickness. Government initiative is effort from the government in promoting the awareness of diabetes.

From this research, I realize that Malaysia has a really high prevalence and incidents rate of diabetes patients. In Malaysia, an estimated 1.33 million suffer from diabetes, of which more that half are not aware that they have the disease.

Besides doing this research, I also need to do some translation work from English to Chinese for the questionnaire that be used during the interview with some china company.

12-16 April 2010

its the second week of my internship! this week i was given 2 research task to do. one about the graying population and another on referral pattern. both are quite tough as not much info can be found and i need to make each research at least 15pages long.

every Tuesday is our intern meeting. all the intern will have to gather at the meeting room. this week we had an iq test. answer will be discussed in the next meeting. its been a simple week.

day4.

today we dont have to go for the training anymore as the rest of the sessions are meant for the new permanent employer as they will be giving presentation on the topic they are working on.

so that's mean we will be going back to our own desk and start on my task given by my supervisors. my first task is that i was given a topic of research title and i need to search for journals, articles, or mayb books and look for the suitable one and write a report about it.

the clients are given some specific instructions for us to follow on and we need to find according to the specification. my supervisor taught me how to start and given me good advise how to do it.

aside from work, during lunch we went for a indian restaurant for buffet with some of my colleagues. they are friendly to invite us over lunch and it was a big group. it was a good experience in meeting up different people in work and getting know different kind of people and how you communicate with them.

it was a great lunch and great day!*wee. weekend is here soooon!

day2&day3.

*mydesk.mycup.mydesktop.:)

these two days are pretty the same. we are still undergoing our training session with all the other new employee. but things are getting tough. we have to go through some practice on how to communicate with clients. we have a mock calls and we are required to call some company to request for an interview from that particular person. its tough cause they will have different kind of problems encounter and we have to use the correct way to solve it. and this is very useful as it taught me how to communicate well. everyone does a great job and learn from mistakes.

it was quite a fruitful day! :)

1st day 5th april 2010

and so today is my first day of internship. i woke up very early today to avoid the jam. its the first day after all and must leave some good impression.

i reach the office pretty earlier. the road all the way to my company is smooth and not congested at all. im looking for a carpark space near my office as the plaze's parking itself cost rm12 a day which is so expensive. imagine im working 20days it already cost me rm240 a month.

and eventually its 9am. our HR executive, Joyce Yap brief us what we will be doing for the first week. we will be joining the new employee training session for the first week. the purpose of the training is to expose to us the background of the company,their scope of jobs and departments, brush up our presentation skills and communication skills.

it was a pretty fun and interesting to start off. . we need to be familiar with the environment. meeting up all the supervisors and head of department. it is quite an organized company with very friendly staff.

the first day my supervisor has give me a research task. im going to work on it!:)

and yay! i have my own desk and desktop.

overview.

what is Frost & Sullivan?

this will be the company i will be working for 3months.

Frost & Sullivan is actually a growth partnership company, which partner with client to accelerate their growth. The company's TEAM research, growth consultancy and growth team membership empower clients to creat a growth focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies.

F&S employs over 45years of experiences in partnership with global 1000companies, emerging business and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents.

Frost & Sullivan provides in-depth research/consulting coverage of these industries: Aerospace & Defense; Automotive & Transportation; Chemicals, Materials and Food; Electronics & Security; Energy & Power Supplies; Environment & Building Technologies; Healthcare; Industrial Automation & Process Control; Information & Communication Technologies; Measurement & Instrumentation.

so i guess in this 3months time i will be mainly working on my desk doing research and mayb im wrong! tats for me to find out in this 3months time!:)

this is their website :
www.frost.com

its coming my way!

starting from

5th of april 2010

until

25th of June 2010

ill be undergoing my internship in

Frost & Sullivan

in

Plaza Mont Kiara.

working hours start from

9.00am

until

6.00pm.



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