Internships with weight at balanças marques (part i)
As a company that is proud to be innovative since its birth, it’s enthusiastically that Balanças Marques sees more and more young people joining the team. We value the new ideas they bring, we like to share our knowledge with them, we believe they are a worthy investment. So, every year, we welcome students from different study areas for internships that will certainly lend weight to their future.
On the last months, despite the pandemic’s contingencies, several students landed in our company, willing to work with us, to learn from our employees and also leave a little bit of themselves behind around here.
That’s what happened with Paulo Costa, Raquel Marques, Gonçalo Costa and Ivânia Cabral – to whom we have to thank for their dedication to our home during their internship and the testimony they offer us here:
• Paulo Costa
Still as a student of Computing Network and Security at Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Paulo Costa joined us to be an intern on his area. According to him, the experience “allowed contact with a company that leverages innovation” and gave him “new ideas and methodologies”. And it also gave him the opportunity to officially take his first steps into the job market. “From here I take the beginning of a great professional career, as well as the opportunity to join a team of excellence”, says Paulo.
• Raquel Marques
Student of Industrial Engineering and Management at University of Minho, Raquel Marques came to be a part of our Customer Support Department. According to her, the internship “was, with no doubt, a very interesting experience”, where she felt the “availability and trust” of all her colleagues, which allowed her to put into action what she learned on her academic path. “Besides the great work environment, I felt like my competences and knowledge were useful for the department and applied throughout my internship”, assures Raquel.
• Gonçalo Costa
Integrated in our Marketing Department, Gonçalo Costa was looking for an internship that would allow him to develop his commercial skills. Here, he got the chance to explore it and, in his own words, he was able to “evolve both professionally and personally”. The remote work, imposed by the pandemic, gave him an “atypical” experience, but offered him “new ways to work and to interact with people”. “I can only leave a thank you to Balanças Marques for welcoming me and, early on, including me on the family of Grupo José Pimenta Marques”, concludes Gonçalo.
• Ivânia Cabral
In her senior year of the Design course at Escola Profissional de Braga, Ivânia Cabral was an intern on our Communication and Image Department. Throughout her experience, and in spite of the distance the pandemic and remote work demanded, she worked closely with a team she considers to be “thoughtful, helpful and caring”. And, even with the unprecedented context, there was “a lot of communication among everyone”, which allowed her to take great advantage from this internship”. “I will always take with me the lessons I got here. It was a pleasure to work and «Be Part Of This»”, ensures Ivânia.
Do you also want to be a part of this? Just visit our recruitment page! The eighth Best Company to Work at in Portugal is always open to receive interns or spontaneous applications and it has some available posts. You can become the next member of this family we built at Balanças Marques!
