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Before introducing my job, my mission, my target… I need to explain the goal of my department: Localization. The localization is a small team which was created to find both new and local suppliers stop in order to stop importing all parts from US and France. In this team we have technical engineers, purchasers …
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Introduction
I am working for Schneider Electric, a French company with locations all throughout the world. This international company hired me in Shanghai for my internship, which lasts 9 months from June 2011 to February 2012. Located in 200 countries, with more than 130 000 employees, it is a good opportunity for me apply my …
Before embarking on my journey to China, needless to say, I was anticipating a great deal of culture shock. Upon my arrival, I found I had entered a world which is culturally the polar-opposite of mine. Shanghai is an interesting in the way that it is a very modern city full of innovation and …
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It has been a long time that I think about it, since my arrival in China actually : I have to write an article about negociation in China.
Negotiation in China is a daily game, it has rules and I have been trying to understand them for the last six months. What I would like …
In the company, everyone is using Google services everyday and all the time, Google Search, Google Translate. We are now even using Gmail, Google Calendar, Google docs and Gtalk, because since this year the company abandoned Outlook to choose Google Apps for its business solutions.
Actually Google has become very important in our daily professional …
July, August, September, October, and… November! I can’t believe it, already 5 months spent in China. To celebrate this 5th months? A new article! This months, and always to show you the paradox of China, I will explain what I really don’t like in China and why anyway I keep thinking one day I could …
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What about Oxylane?
I’m not the first one who is doing an internship in Oxylane logistic (For remind: http://international.iteem.ec-lille.fr/asia/oxylane-logsitics%C2%A0-reach-for-the-top%C2%A0/) (So I will do my best to present Oxylane with another point of view and not repeat things which are already been said!) By the way, this is really funny because here Iteem is very famous, …
At Chocomuseo, we make our own artisanal and organic chocolate.
Do you know how to make chocolate? I will explain you how, right here.
First we have to select the cocoa beans from the producers. As the chocolate quality will depend of the taste of the cocoa beans, we have to be careful. To get the …
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My internship is almost over and I haven’t told you all my stories yet! We need to catch up guys! I think you already know that I love this country. I am really well integrated; I love my work, love the city, love the US, and love the American life style.
As I was saying …
I’ve already told you about Shanghai, about my feeling and about the company values in general; but until now you have no idea about what I am doing here in China working for Oxylane logistics.
First, let me explain you the global context, and then my missions in this specific environment.
First of all we can …