Needs improvement - Development Associate A Global Friendship Employee Review

Well-outlined job description. Office environment encouraging learning through doing. Learning and use of hard-skills needed in non-profit context. Opportunity to work on projects outside of direct job description, giving you a well-rounded experience. I personally had the opportunity to travel to the field with the founder, not only enriching my overall experience, but also motivating me to further pursue a career in women's empowerment and international development work.

General administrative disorganization as a result of different employees working on the same project in a non-uniform way.

I have done several unpaid internships in the past all of which I gained experience from or networking. This internship is worse than slave labor, an unpaid internship exploiting us for financial gain for the company.

first the "company" is housed in an apartment in one of those apartment complexes. Where all the unpaid interns and employees work. -networking? you wish, some of us were not even invited to go inside this apartment. We were not even introduced to anyone working at the company. -experience? the internship ad made itself to sound so very official, that we were gaining invaluable experience, and a lot of other false promises of working at areas which in reality never happened and was false advertisement. -overall? the internship consists of being lead by very unorganized management, whom you don't gain any career related experience, your daily tasks consists of doing laborious work that a middle school grad can do. Its not like we don't mind the labor but other than labor we didn't learn anything. -constructive criticism? advice given to the company of improving our internship experience, how they can use our skills to better improve the company was quickly shot down. It all ended and lead to one thing. Same laborious work we did every day. -I can go on and on about my experience, My suggestion avoid this company at all cost. That includes working for or working with them. I would not even call it a company. A work from home project made to look bigger than they are is a proper description.