>> You need to be very organized.
I've learned that communication can be sometimes a barrier in international business.
So you need to be organized, you need to be able to think on your feet and just come
up with different ways to solve those communication barriers.
For example for like South America I've learned that emails aren't the best way
to communicate things especially since you're speaking English and Spanish
with multiple players within the company.
So what I do is just draft two reports weekly and send it to them on Wednesdays and Fridays,
letting them know the status of their orders and what I need, what I need for it to be completed.
And that's the best way that I've learned to communicate with them.
Obviously it's very time consuming so you need to be quick as well.
It's kind of like I went to work but it's like I'm still in school
because it's the same exact thing, we deal with the same logistics portions like we deal
with Incoterms, we deal with monetary values
like what a US dollar is versus like a Brazilian real.
We also do like commercial invoices in class, so they'll teach us how
to prepare commercial invoice, what a packing list needs to look like,
what a certificate of origin needs to look like.
They will talk about special filings that we need to do with like an AES filing.
They'll cover a lot of regulatory websites like the US government websites where you can go
and research whether you can import to a certain country or what regulations are in place.
So I went to work and I knew what I was doing.
I knew what a certificate of origin was, I knew what a bill of lading was,
I knew what a packing list was, and if someone just goes into it without education I feel
like you have to start from zero and learn.
So the career is definitely right onto the job.