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Intern Life Motivation: Adjusting Your Mental Mindset to Push Past Present Frustration
Posted by Ivi Morales · 0 Comment
Are you unsatisfied with your unpaid internship? Bored of the same daily routine: class, internship, homework? That’s understandable. But you should cheer up. Why? Because the grueling work acts as a stepping-stone toward yours career. It’s doing what you have to do so you can eventually do what you want to do.
When in doubt, think like Aristotle:
“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; [...]
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Intern Life Motivation: Personal Branding and the New Year
Posted by Ivi Morales · 4 Comments
Forget the typical resolutions of losing weight and saving money. Use the New Year as motivation to revamp your personal brand instead! Prepare yourself (and your brand) for the professional opportunities waiting in store in 2011 with the following steps:
Improve your LinkedIn.
Make yourself job-market-ready by updating your LinkedIn. If you don’t have one, what are you waiting for? I like to consider [...]
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Intern Life Motivation: Rocking Your Relationships Along With Your Internship
Posted by Dawn Siemiet · 0 Comment
You walk into your first day at your internship, and you are put in a room with all of the other interns at the company that you are working at. There might only be two other interns or there might be 100 other interns. No matter the number of interns who you will be at the company with and whether or not you will be interacting with them on a regular basis, the relationships that you have with [...]
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Intern Life Motivation: Black Friday and Searching for the Perfect Internship
Posted by Dawn Siemiet · 0 Comment
Personally, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. There is plenty to be thankful for in life, and all of the delicious food, plus spending time with family and friends are not too shabby either. Though Thanksgiving is probably the most well-know event in November, there is also this day that is know as the biggest shopping day of the year. The day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday, is [...]
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Intern Life Motivation: End Your Internship With A Lasting First Impression
Posted by Dawn Siemiet · 0 Comment
First impressions are important and in some cases can be what will make or break an internship experience. If you walk into your internship with jeans and a cutoff shirt and are swearing all the time, you are not going to give off a professional image. That first impression you make will stick to you throughout your experience and beyond, especially when hiring for future positions.
So, let’s paint [...]
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Intern Life Motivation: A CEO Cleaning the Toilets?
Posted by Dawn Siemiet · 0 Comment
You always hear that it’s all about who you know and you must network, network, network. However, I truly believe that it is not just about who you know, but what they know about you. You can tell a great deal about a person based on how they treat other people. Sure, you can talk intelligently to the CEO of the company and try to win him over, but if you do not speak to other people in the company [...]
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