{"id":3812,"date":"2017-06-26T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2017-06-26T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T20:34:36","slug":"making-the-most-of-the-second-half-of-your-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/making-the-most-of-the-second-half-of-your-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the Most of the Second Half of your Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Karim Abouelnaga<\/a>.\u00a0Reposted from Forbes<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n

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By now, many of you are probably halfway through your summer internships. You know people\u2019s names and you are probably at a point where you\u2019re also adding value to the organization or company that you\u2019re with. But it is easy to finish your internship and feel like you could\u2019ve done without the experience because you can\u2019t add anything meaningful to your resume or your network.\u00a0 Below are my five tips to get the most out of the second half of your internship.<\/h3>\n

1. Ask for feedback.<\/strong>
\nThis is a good time in the summer to get some feedback<\/a> on the first half of your internship. Most people will not give unsolicited feedback so the onus is on you. This is your opportunity to find out two things: what people like that you\u2019re doing and what people don\u2019t like that you\u2019re doing.<\/span> That will allow you to do more of the former and less of the later. It also ensure that there will be no surprises at the end of the summer.<\/h3>\n

2. Commit to your one thing.<\/strong>
\nBe selfish. Spend 10\u00a0minutes one morning and fill in one of these blanks or all of these blanks:<\/h3>\n

a. If I could leave this summer having learned about one thing, it would be _________.
\nb. The one thing I want to learn more about this summer is_________.
\nc. I know this summer will have been worthwhile if I learn about _________.<\/h3>\n

3. Take on a research project<\/a>.<\/strong>
\nAsk your manager or boss if there was anything they wish they had more time to research or learn about. Then offer to take it on and see if they\u2019ll review a final presentation that you put together for them on that topic. The project will be something you can work on during your down time. Moreover, you are going to learn so much more about the area you\u2019re working in by conducting your own independent research.<\/h3>\n

Some internships will already have this project structured for you. At our company this summer, we have our interns working together on a presentation and education series for our team on what it means to be a B Corp. You\u2019ll also be able to put this on your resume for next year\u2019s internship or job.<\/h3>\n

4. Focus on building one or two relationships.<\/strong>
\nIt is very easy to get caught up with meeting everyone or not meeting anyone over the summer.In hindsight, I wish I was a little more intentional about wanting to build one or two significant relationships from each of my summer internship experiences. Having one or two meaningful relationships will trump superficially knowing 10 or 15 people at the place you\u2019re working. Similarly, managing relationships takes effort. Focus on the relationships that you believe you can learn a lot from.<\/h3>\n

5. Connect on LinkedIn.<\/strong>
\nBefore the end of the summer, add your co-workers and people you\u2019ve worked with on LinkedIn<\/a>. I highly encourage you do this sooner rather than later. Some people won\u2019t add you to their network if they don\u2019t know or remember who you are. By connecting with them now, they\u2019ll be in your network going forward. You never know when you\u2019re going to need your network. For me, I was glad that I was connected to so many of the people I met when I was fundraising. LinkedIn doesn\u2019t always tell you this, but every time you connect with someone you will have access to their email address.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Karim Abouelnaga.\u00a0Reposted from Forbes. By now, many of you are probably halfway through your summer internships. You know people\u2019s names and you are probably at a point where you\u2019re also adding value to the organization or company that you\u2019re with. But it is easy to finish your internship and feel like you could\u2019ve done…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":977,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,328,935,1070],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","tag-internship","tag-internship-advice","tag-job-advice","tag-job-info"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2017\/06\/Internship-blog-photo.jpg?fit=1200%2C801&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-Zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}