Zahra Hassan

College: Brooklyn College

Education Level: Senior

Career Interest: Data Analysis

My name is Zahra and I am a senior at Brooklyn College majoring in Mathematics. I chose my major because I liked to solve problems, critical thinking, engage with data/numbers, and to develop new skills using Math. It took long enough to decide what I wanted to study. During my High School period I wanted to study law back from my home country in Sri Lanka where I took the Law entrance exam which I didn’t pass. Then coming to America I developed passion in Math which led me to major at college. Nevertheless, I like to bake during my leisure time which helps to cope with stress and anxiety when I deal with college and work. Other things I like to do are watch anime, spend more time with family, travel, and try new food. Currently I am exploring and developing technical skills such as I started learning Python a year ago, and learning Java and R programming in my current semester. As for my career interest, my dream job is to become a Date Analyst, however, I am not fulfilling much of the necessary requirements such as the skill sets expected from an analyst. Thus, starting my first internship through a company like Unadat may assist me by developing necessary professional skills, technical skills, communication, leadership, work ethics, etc. This is also set forth to develop my personality, to learn who am I, sharpen my skills, make new connection with the industry, and identify what kind of career paths that is available for me.

What was your role?

Beta-tester

What did you work on?

What was the impact of your project?

The impact of my project is to set goal on a new feature called chores. We develop the necessary tools to boost conditions in order to handle money with certain negotiation methods. This involves creating Sprint thread with sub threads as variety of chores for each team to bring forth the new Chores tool to consumers. Chores tools will increase the user experience to carry the conditions that can be set by a parent to child. We also make management to circle back such as to child to parent use.

What did you learn or improve on from this internship or from your teammates?

What skills have you gained?

Professional speech, teamwork, leadership, responsibility, time management, understanding the work environment of a tech company, goal setting, stress management is one of a big transition as being a full time student and working 15 hours per weeks to handle the stress efficiently without falling back on both. Another skill that I am progressing towards was to become reliable which is important to let others know who I am and what are my existing skillsets that would be useful to support on tasks.

What was the biggest roadblock you've overcome?

My biggest roadblock was landing on my first internship and getting started into the workforce as I had many self-doubts whether I am capable to present my skills in a professional field.

How has company culture guided your work?

What was your experience at Unadat?

What was one big project you worked on during the internship? Can you walk me through the process?

What advice would you give to future interns?

Taking an internship is an important stage in anyone`s life since they are the beginner step to learn who we are, our innate skills, and learn new skills. One of the crucial element is that training for new interns before transiting to real projects. As interns expectations mainly involves around to learn and develop their skills, prioritizing to train them with the necessary requirements that holds toward success in their transition to work environment supports them to do well.