Internship Final Reflection - Advertisement Assignment #4

Instructions: Once you've finished your 12 weeks, prepare a final reflection by responding in paragraph form to the following questions. Make sure to include supportive details so that your responses illustrate how your internship played a role in your life.

1. Look back to your earliest posts. What were your goals? Did you achieve these goals? If so, what did you have to do consistently to achieve the goals?

2. What are the most important things you’ve learned in the last 12 weeks?

3. In what ways have your grown as a student and young adult?

4. What were the highlights of your internship experience?

5. What's one thing you've learned about the professional world?

6. What challenges did you overcome?

7. If you were to start internship next week, what is one thing you would do differently?

8. What advice would you give a new intern at this site? Your answers to this question can be used for your Exhibition Advertisement.

9. What will you miss about your internship?

The Interview - Advertisement Assignment #6

THE INTERVIEW ASSIGNMENT:

Select someone at your internship site to interview, possibly a coworker or your mentor. Arrange a time and place in these last two weeks that you can conduct the interview. It is a good idea to give the questions to the interviewee (person being interviewed) in advance.

Use the following questions for the interview. Select at least 10 or more of these questions to ask the interviewee. You may use all of them if you wish. Remember, it's a good idea to give the interviewee the questions in advance.

Record the answers during the interview. For your Internship Exhibition Advertisement, type the questions and answers.

1. What is your full name?

2. Where are you from (city, state, country)?

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Would you like to go back to school?

4. (If the interviewee went to college)… What was your major in college and what kind of degree did you earn? Did you attend graduate school for an advanced degree? If yes, what degree and where?

5. Why did you choose your professional field?

6. What got you involved in this field of work? What inspired you to do it?

7. Why did you choose this particular job at this particular company?

8. How long have you worked here?

9. What is your job title?

10. What do your duties include? Another way of asking this questions is, "What kinds of work does your job involve?"

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?

12. What is the best part of your job?

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?

14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?

15. What do you see as your future with this company?

16. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do? Why or why not?

17. Do you plan to open your own business one day?

18. How has having an intern helped your company or organization?

19. What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) getting ready for college?

20. What advice would you give to teenage interns (such as myself) preparing to find a career in the real world?

*21. Feel free to create additional questions. Just make sure to be appropriate.

Before you conduct your interview, consider these ideas:

-Who do you want to interview?

-What do you already know about that person? (their name, where they are from, how old they are, what their job is...)

-What do you want to know about that person? (how they got their job, where they went to school, how long they were in school...)