Haman Scandinavia, Group Department

Placement organization

Name of organization: Haman Scandinavia, Group Department
Town/city: Sollentuna
Country: Zweden
Website: https://haman.no/

Student

Name of student: Lydia Brand

Specialist area: Tourism Management (EN)
Placement period: 2021-2022

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Tour operator
Organization’s activities: The company creates group packages for their clients, who are tour operators from other countries. The tours take place in the nordic countries, aka in Scandinavia.
Target group of the organization: Tour operators in the English and German speaking world
Company culture: The company culture is quite informal. However there is also a CEO, as well as department leaders and managers, but everyone interacts very relaxed with each other.
Number of employees: 10
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? Yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Group (sales) department & purchasing department

Brief description of your daily activities: creating name lists, sending out name lists to suppliers, creating offers, cancelling offers, comparing price rates and cancellation policies, inserting rates into a the companies database, creating supplier statistics
Brief description of your company assignment: a survey among the company’s B2B clients to improve the cooperation
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: I have two different supervisors in the two departments, but also the other employees are guiding me and giving me tasks.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? analytical thinking, team player, social
Additional company requirements for this placement? Excel
English: Advanced
Spanish:
French:
German: Advanced
Italian:
Other languages:

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? The company rents a room to me
How did you go to work every day? by foot

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? no
Do you need a work permit? no
How did you arrange the necessary documents:
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents?
Did you need certain vaccinations? No
How long in advance?

Language course

Did you take a language course before you started your placement? No
Would you recommend to have a language course prior to this placement? no

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 350€
Accommodation (monthly): € 550€
Local transport (monthly): € 100€
General costs of living (monthly): € 400€
Costs of visa: € 0€
Costs of work permit: € 0€
What did the company pay for/to you? Transport

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I took language lessons on Duolingo and read in my Lonelyplanet about the culture
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? no

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: don’t bring any Swedish cash, as nobody uses it here
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Stockholm is full of museums, and attractions
Uppsala and Sigtuna are nice day trips to do as well, or a boat trip into the archipelago

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