sinas GmbH & Co. KG is a worldwide importer and exporter of tea and tea accessories. The firm's high quality product and competitve price performance has been key to its more than 225 years of success in the trade. My tasks: - Acquisition of new customers across Europe, with whom I could communicate in their first language. - Customer service- Translation of new catalogue items- Setting up of sales stand and brochure for Tea and Coffee World Cup event in Birmingham. During my two month internship in Bremen, my German language skills improved greatly, working in an all-German office. Acquiring customers was at times a fruitless task but the reward in seeing revenue being derived from my efforts was great.

mmc sport is an international sports content agency with its office based in Munich, Germany. The company provides a high quality translation service, runs more than 100 live commentaries for football matches every week, as well as overseeing more than 30 websites and 60 social media channels.Across my four month internship as part of the english team I was placed in charge of the Werder Bremen twitter and facebook accounts. My tasks: - Creating original daily content - Updating and translation of articles for the english website- Editing and creation of graphics for social media channelsAt mmc, I enhanced my language and translation skills, improved my proficiency of programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Google docs and gained insight into an international social media firm.

VeryChic is an internet-based vendor of luxury hotel stays. The site boasts more than 5 million members, 6500 bookings per month and 2000 partner hotels.My tasks:- Creation and updating of offers for website- Translation of hotels' descritpions and facilitiesMy work at VeryChic was always heavily time dependent and so my ability to stick to deadlines was key. I improved my time management, translation skills and attention to detail.