Why I Chose the Pyne Companies?

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New York Denver

I. Table of Contents

II. Executive Summary

III. Search Process for the internship

1. Initial Search:

I did my first internship during the month of January as I had no other choice but I immediately decided that I would do my second internship during the summer months as it would give me a wider choice of companies. The search for my second internship started during my first internship. I was asked to find information about several hundred CEO's and HR Managers which I did successfully. I took this opportunity to keep the addresses and telephone numbers of several of them in order to be able to contact them in my search for a second internship. However I didn't use these contacts as Géraud Verstraeten who is also a student at UBI offered me an internship in the United States.

Géraud had mentioned that he had an internship opportunity in the United States during the first semester. I didn't know at that moment what it was about until he really offered me to do the internship with him at the beginning of the new semester.

2. Why I Chose The Pyne Companies?

Géraud explained to me roughly what sort of company it was and what the internship would be about. He told me that his father knew an American called Percy R. Pyne who works in the Real Estate business. Percy Pyne is the founder and chairman of Pyne Companies which is a real estate and consultancy company based in New York. (The Pyne Companies brochure) I was immediately interested as real estate has always been a sector where I could see myself working in the future. Moreover the internship would be in the United States, we would spend 2 weeks in New York working in their Wall Street office and 2 other weeks in Denver where P. Pyne has a partnership in the Denver West Office Park. I accepted the offer with great enthusiasm.

I met P. Pyne for the first time at Géraud's house during a dinner a few weeks before our internship. He explained us that we would mostly do translations for documents about a Luxemburg based real estate