Summer Internship Program

Xeno Pharmaceuticals’ Summer  Internship Program aims to create for the student the  opportunity to assess his/her abilities and interests in Marketing, thus assisting the student intern in choosing a specific career. The internship experience provides meaningful work  and encourages the student to draw connections with ideas gained from the classroom.

What Summer Interns say about the Program

My first interview for internship this summer was with Xeno. During the interview, I was immediately enticed by the advocacy that the company supports: “premium healthcare within reach of Filipino families”—and they do not fail to follow this with their prices being lower than those already out in the market. Also, since Xeno is exclusively owned by employees who were mostly employees from a multinational pharmaceutical company, the people behind it are already experts in the pharmaceutical industry. Thus, Xeno is really not just an ordinary start-up company. It has strong foundations when it comes to experience and technical knowledge, and that makes the work in Xeno more challenging.
I was accepted as an intern in Xeno’s Marketing Department with my colleague Brenda. I then found out that Xeno is very different from the companies I know. Most companies promise to make the team more close to each other through eat outs and some culminating activities, but are not as natural as the way people in Xeno bond.. . . In addition, I like the way the people in the company interact with each other—everyone is of equal footing when it comes to ideas and opinions. As our boss tells us, in Xeno, people debate on issues a lot since they don’t believe in the idea that the Boss is always right, that each one has the chance to defend his/her views during discussions. And lastly, their programs for their employees give big importance on each one’s growth in the company and as individuals. Autonomy is given to each with a reasonable degree of mentoring and guidance from the bosses.
For our internship program, we were given a project to work on. We were left to finish the project the way we planned it and were given the freedom to consult with anyone in the company. There, we learned how to create plans and field works in a limited time, we gained insights from the experts in the industry, and we prepared reports for the big bosses in the company. The project was very challenging since we had to research on a lot of things since we are really not familiar with the pharmaceutical industry. After that, we had to brainstorm a lot of times on our own and with some of the bosses there. …… The whole project  was really challenging, but it was a great training for our feasibility study this coming semester, especially on market survey and critical analysis.
This is such a memorable experience that I can surely relate to my peers at school or when I eventually graduate. As our bosses said, in the field, you must not be all brains, you must also have a high EQ. And this is what we give more importance to as we work with other people, within or outside the academe.

                                                                                            -Jan Krysna Anibigno, summer intern 2009