The Internship Companion: Guiding You Through Each Phase of Your Journey
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 118
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 126
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The Internship Companion: Guiding You Through Each Phase of Your Journey serves as a reference for students throughout their internship – taking a big step in their career exploration journey!
Written in an informal, conversational tone, The Internship Companion includes explanations for why the author has selected certain content, the author’s personal experiences on the given topic, and integrates credible current research – making the reader feel like a part of the process, not just a recipient of information.
Based on the author’s ten-plus years of teaching experience, The Internship Companion: Guiding You Through Each Phase of Your Journey:
focuses on communication as the key to success throughout the career exploration process.
empowers readers to tailor the content to their own experience through exercises and reflections, which they can continue to utilize both after their internship is complete and throughout their future career exploration endeavors.
can be used to create a formal student internship course or used as a model to guide students through the internship process.
is written sequentially, in the presumed order a typical internship will follow. However, it is flexible and can be used out of order if a need arises.
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is an Internship?
Chapter 2: Obtaining an Internship
Chapter 3: The Résumé and Cover Letter: What, Why, and How
Chapter 4: Preparing to Intern
Chapter 5: Making the Most of Your Internship
Chapter 6: Culture and the Workplace
Chapter 7: Sexual Harassment and the Workplace
Chapter 8: Relationship Building and Networking
Chapter 9: Conflict in the Workplace
Chapter 10: Ending Your Internship. It’s Only the Beginning!
Chapter 11: Final Words—and You Fill in the Rest
Appendix I: Request for an Informational Interview
Appendix II: Hypothetical Situations
Appendix III: Additional Copies of “What Am I Learning from This Task?”
Appendix IV: Resources
Credits
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Laura O’Connell started her career as an entertainment publicist for the concert venue Westbury Music Fair and later became a marketing manager for the legacy brand Welcome Wagon. During both experiences, she always had interns by her side, teaching a new generation of professionals. But it was her start as a student at Nassau Community College that O’Connell credits for leading her to discover who she is, giving her a voice, teaching her the value of education, showing her how to be a leader, and of course obtaining her first internship, as well as an associate degree in liberal arts. O’Connell also holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in speech and interpersonal communication from New York University. It was her dream to one day teach at Nassau to guide students in the way she had been guided. With hard work, perseverance, and a little luck, her dream came true. Now a SUNY Chancellor’s for Teaching Excellence Award recipient, Laura has been a professor in the Communications Department at Nassau Community College for almost 20 years. When she’s not teaching or mentoring students, she is laughing with friends and spending time with her husband, their two kids, and their yellow Labrador retriever.
The Internship Companion: Guiding You Through Each Phase of Your Journey serves as a reference for students throughout their internship – taking a big step in their career exploration journey!
Written in an informal, conversational tone, The Internship Companion includes explanations for why the author has selected certain content, the author’s personal experiences on the given topic, and integrates credible current research – making the reader feel like a part of the process, not just a recipient of information.
Based on the author’s ten-plus years of teaching experience, The Internship Companion: Guiding You Through Each Phase of Your Journey:
focuses on communication as the key to success throughout the career exploration process.
empowers readers to tailor the content to their own experience through exercises and reflections, which they can continue to utilize both after their internship is complete and throughout their future career exploration endeavors.
can be used to create a formal student internship course or used as a model to guide students through the internship process.
is written sequentially, in the presumed order a typical internship will follow. However, it is flexible and can be used out of order if a need arises.
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Is an Internship?
Chapter 2: Obtaining an Internship
Chapter 3: The Résumé and Cover Letter: What, Why, and How
Chapter 4: Preparing to Intern
Chapter 5: Making the Most of Your Internship
Chapter 6: Culture and the Workplace
Chapter 7: Sexual Harassment and the Workplace
Chapter 8: Relationship Building and Networking
Chapter 9: Conflict in the Workplace
Chapter 10: Ending Your Internship. It’s Only the Beginning!
Chapter 11: Final Words—and You Fill in the Rest
Appendix I: Request for an Informational Interview
Appendix II: Hypothetical Situations
Appendix III: Additional Copies of “What Am I Learning from This Task?”
Appendix IV: Resources
Credits
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Laura O’Connell started her career as an entertainment publicist for the concert venue Westbury Music Fair and later became a marketing manager for the legacy brand Welcome Wagon. During both experiences, she always had interns by her side, teaching a new generation of professionals. But it was her start as a student at Nassau Community College that O’Connell credits for leading her to discover who she is, giving her a voice, teaching her the value of education, showing her how to be a leader, and of course obtaining her first internship, as well as an associate degree in liberal arts. O’Connell also holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in speech and interpersonal communication from New York University. It was her dream to one day teach at Nassau to guide students in the way she had been guided. With hard work, perseverance, and a little luck, her dream came true. Now a SUNY Chancellor’s for Teaching Excellence Award recipient, Laura has been a professor in the Communications Department at Nassau Community College for almost 20 years. When she’s not teaching or mentoring students, she is laughing with friends and spending time with her husband, their two kids, and their yellow Labrador retriever.