My internship took place at a software development company Amberscript. Based in the heart of Amsterdam, Amberscript is a SaaS scale-up with main mission – to make all audio accessible. Using both AI and a growing freelancer community around the world, Amberscript provides transcription, subtitles, dubbing, audio description, translations, and speech-to-text API.
As a second year student of Communication Science not knowing anything about tech, I went into the unknown and found myself spending 5 months in a thriving, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment. While searching for an internship, I knew what I did not want to do but was also unsure what field I want to go into. Luckily, I was presented with the offer from Amberscript as an HR intern and I knew that a dynamic place like this will give me hands-on experience to get into the field, learn and understand my interest better.
As expected, in my role as Human Resources Specialist Intern no day was the same. While recruitment made up for 50% of my daily tasks, I often felt as if I was wearing multiple hats at the same time due to the diverse set of tasks I was presented each day. Oftentimes challenging, I learned how to take ownership, be ambitious and most importantly – be curious to get the most out of my internship.
The field I enjoyed the most was recruitment. I was responsible for leading the full-cycle recruitment process for all internship and work student positions. This included sourcing, interviewing, selection and contract creation – successfully filling all open intern roles. Once being recruited I was responsible for the onboarding and offboarding processes of all new joiners in the company. While being a new joiner myself, I was able to meet each new joiner and make them feel as included as I did. Additionally, I was responsible for supporting payroll processing – gathering and submitting documents of employees to the payroll team.
Working at a tight-knit team came with many advantages, such as seeing how the company functions and the contributions of each employee to make it happen. I would advise the future interns to not be afraid and instead reach out to as many people as possible. I was able to see how each department functions, their daily tasks, in a way, also shaping my future career decisions. Lastly, the colleagues you work with can make the biggest difference, therefore, I advise everyone to create meaningful connections to make your days in the office brighter!