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Internal Advancement: Making the Most of Water Cooler Chat
Posted by Catherine Caldwell · 0 Comment
Picture a typical down day: It’s 3 p.m., and Flavia machine is calling your name. Meandering through the jungle of Xerox machines and close-knit cubicles, you find yourself face to face with the head of the web department – someone you’ve been eager to talk to. What do you do? A. Say nothing, B. Say anything, C. Seize the opportunity, introduce yourself, make small talk and express your interest [...]
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The Black Book is Key:-)
Posted by Catherine Caldwell · 0 Comment
Want to successfully conquer the internship follow-up? Get organized by simply keeping your contacts on hand. It’s as simple as that! Writing as a reformed Excel and Google Docs user, getting organized, once started, simples both your personal and professional lives!
Before I discovered Excel and Google docs, I was wasting crucial time (and often losing track of important email threads!) by having [...]
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Intern Life Skills: From Campus to Corporate, How to Communicate in a Whole New Jungle
Posted by Marah Lidey · 1 Comment
As college students, we learn a lot about culture and how to communicate and behave in different settings. We have entire courses dedicated to specific traditions and many of us have friends of unique ethnic backgrounds. Yet one thing we fail to learn in college is that culture in the workplace holds a new, entirely different meaning and largely dictates how we as an intern act and communicate in the [...]
Intern Life Communication: Smart Phones, Energy Drinks & Balancing Multiple Internships
Posted by Eric Leist · 0 Comment
We asked interns from the Boston area to submit their answers to some key questions surrounding their life as an intern holding multiple internships!
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Eric Leist is an Emerging Technology Strategist at Allen & Gerritsen, a blogger forTalentCulture and speech coach.You can read his personal blog at EricLeist.com [...]
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Intern Life Communication: 3 Tips and Tricks for Your Next Presentation
Posted by Eric Leist · 0 Comment
Many established internship programs end with the intern giving a presentation to the company or department. Typically, interns will either present a semester-long project or simply talk about what they learned. Too often, we Gen-Y workers want to start building a presentation in PowerPoint, packing it with as many bullet points as possible, and showing off our tech-savvy by loading it up with the [...]
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Intern Life Communication: Know the Chain of Command at Your Internship
Posted by Eric Leist · 0 Comment
I’ve interned at some pretty small companies in my time as an indentured servant to the communications industry. I’ve sat at desks (and card tables) that were so close to the founder of the company’s office, ironically, I could hear the pen click on pay day. Those experiences were both valuable and challenging because they gave me access to almost all levels of a company. I learned [...]
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