Making the Most of Your Internship Experience
Making the Most of Your Internship Experience by Elissa Mitchell on July 10, 2013 How can you make the most of your internship experience? Agree on a work plan. Before you start your first day or work, you should know what you’ll be doing. Maybe not exactly, but you should have a good idea. Talk with your supervisor in advance about the types of things you want to experience, what the site has to offer, and the projects they want you to work on. Get it in writing and make sure both you and your supervisor understand and agree with it. A learning contract, as it’s sometimes called, makes things a little more formal and gives you something to go back to if you get stuck making copies every day. “Remember those projects we talked about me working on? Could I work on one of those today?” Get out of your comfort zone. It can be tempting to just use your existing skills in your internship or to answer the phone and file paperwork all da...