This week of my internship at Energy Earth, I continued working on the list of 1,500 contact. I’ve spent so much time on this assignment that I am growing sick of looking at this excel spreadsheet and LinkedIn. The good news is, I am only 250 contacts away from completing the list of updated contacts.

It is nice stumbling upon contacts who appear to be great potential leads for the company. I am hoping my work here can help generate a great deal of business in the coming years for Energy Earth.

Fortunately, I have been able to temporarily break up the monotony with a separate research assignment on the tech company Synchronoss out of New Jersey. I was able to put together a comprehensive report on their business including, their history, operations and client services. It was rewarding to know that this document was sent out to upper management and receive positive feedback.

I’m hoping once I finish this contact assignment, I will be able to focus more in Project Management and deal more with business and client focused operations. I have also yet to work hands on in Netsuite, our supply chain software. I am hoping to learn more about this area of the business during my internship.

Since my lost blog post, my days in the office have quite monotonous. Work at Energy Earth has been fairly slow, so much of the work I have been is primarily internal.

My latest assignment was to update a list of the CEO’s 1,500 contacts on an excel spread shit. This meant I had to research each contact in order to update their employment information and whether they could be potential leads for the company. After 4 days of work, I have currently finished 600 of the contacts.

This is not the kind of work I necessarily enjoy doing, however I see the importance in it. It is exciting when I come across a contact that is now working for company that seems like a perfect partner for Energy Earth.

This assignment is also honing my organizational skills and work speed in Microsoft excel. Not only that, but I’ve been able to learn about hundreds of businesses and positions that I’ve never heard. This assignment has also given me great insight into seemingly effective and not so effective LinkedIn profiles.

Sitting all day and doing the same thing over and over can make one quite irritable. For that reason, I am learning to take short breaks every 45 minuets. I’m look forward to finishing this assignment and moving on to something a little more dynamic.

This week at EnergyEarth, my focus has been on updating a contact list of 1,400 professionals in an excel spreadsheet. Going along with my initial Experiential Learning Contract, spending time on this project is definitely sharpening my excel skill. I’m learning how to format better, work faster, and experimenting with making the sheet more covenant and readable.

This contact update is also allowing for me to research and view hundreds of different job descriptions from hundreds of different companies. Not only am I learning about these companies, but I am gaining insight into their time line. Including, mergers name changes, companies that are no longer in business.

Considering I am only roughly 10% finished with this assignment, I believe it will take me most of this week and maybe some of next week to complete it. Though the work is tedious, it is a great opportunity for me to work on my PC and Microsoft skills.

I am hoping to shadow project management more in the near future. In doing this, I’ll be able to learn more about their operations and perhaps finds ways in which I can be of assistance while I am here. Spending time with accounting is also on my list. Understanding exactly what a their job looks like will be a great opportunity to connect what I’ve learned in accounting class to the real world of business management.

I’m continuing to enjoy my time here in Chattanooga, and look forward to what the coming weeks may have in store.

Had a wonderful week at Energy Earth. I had the opportunity to not only continue working with supply chain, but was able to shadow both project management and our graphics department.

In shadowing project management, I sat down first with Catherine. Some notes i took, post meet up where as follows:

Catherine shadow:
-Discussed her role in PM.
-Talked about customer acquisition. Cold calling/selling.
-Her background in non-profit (Girl Scouts of America)
-Editing presentation information for graphics department.
-Discussed culture of company

I then sat with Chris form project management to see what he was working on. Chris gave me great insight into what they do and the projects they are currently working on and more.

-Discussed his role in PM

• Reviewed myattrewards site
• Made edits to Policy page to remove “EnergyEarth” from att’s personalized website
  -Discused his history with Unum (large insurance company). He noted how different it is working for a small company.
  How much more satisfying his job is now. He mentioned how impressed he was with the system that Jeff and his
  team had in place and how Unum’s system in comparison was a “train wreck”. At EE it takes seconds to make a change,
  at Unum it can take months. He feels more engaged, more hands on, and more productive at EE.
• He touched on a great aspect of the EE culture, I hope to help cultivate and maintain – he said it’s hard to tell who his
  supervisor is. They all work close together and trust each other with responsibilities. No ones hanging over their head.
  Input and feedback is welcome. No one rules with an iron fist. We work as a team towards a common goal.
  -This is the future of business (counterexamples- focusing on tasks and less on titles)
  -We talked about Just Energy as a customer and reviewed the data we have for them.
  -Talked about the EE value to it’s customers. We give companies the ability to market their rewards for double what they’re paying
  (up to $200 in rewards when purchasing energy efficient products). Where as most companies can not do this.

Today is my last day interning this week. I told my supervisor my interest in project management and will be working with them more. I’ll be reviewing EE’s new CRM software, Hubspot and going over our many presentations for potential new costumers. I look forward to it!

Week1 of my new internship at Energy Earth was went wonderfully. The first day I was welcomed by my supervisor, Mike. Shorty after Emily, director of Human resources, introduced me to the team and we completed my on boarding, I began working. The first assignment given to me was to research popular products form a list of over 30 companies. I was asked to list the product name and price as well as model number. This project gave me a great opportunity to work in Excel in making a comprehensive, readable and well organized list. I then received a crash course on our new warehouse software, NetSuite. I was able to ask questions about what the staff liked and disliked about the software as well as common issues that arrives with the software and how they combat them. Over the next two days, I shadowed and worked directly with supply chain associate, Kala. Kala showed me her process for updating inventory in NetSuite, placing product orders with various companies and gratefully answered any questions I asked about her position. I spent time doing basic intern jobs like counting inventory, filling customer envelops and taking out recyclables in the warehouse. All in all, it was a great first week. I quickly felt at ease around my associates and learned a great deal. I look forward to surveying more of the company over the coming weeks and continue working towards my goals in gaining as much hands on experience as I can.

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton