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Happy National Intern Day! Internships are more than just a stepping stone; they are a way of giving back and helping aspiring professionals choose the right career path. Today, I want to reflect on the importance of internships and share my personal journey. During my undergrad time, I interned with multiple businesses in real estate, banking, construction, call center startups, and business consulting. Each experience provided me with valuable insights and helped shape my understanding of various industries. One memorable internship involved working with a CPA on a groundbreaking project for the first credit card in Japan. My role was to recreate all the financial statement projections for the first five years—a six-month endeavor that taught me invaluable lessons. While I discovered my passion for working with numbers, I realized that my true calling was to work directly with people, rather than just crunching numbers in the background. Internships provide a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between the academic world and the real world. They allow individuals to gain practical experience and set realistic expectations of what a financial planner's role entails, and vice versa. To all the interns out there, your journey is just beginning, and the experiences you gather now will shape your future in incredible ways. Embrace every opportunity, learn from every challenge, and always strive to connect your academic knowledge with real-world applications.

🌟 Summer Internship Spotlight: Derrick Nobles 🎓 Meet Derrick Nobles, an Accounting major, currently interning at Mauldin & Jenkins Public Accounting Firm in Atlanta, Georgia! Here’s what Derrick has to say about his rewarding experience: 🏦 “I have been working with the audit department. My main task is rolling forward audit programs from prior year to current year, and I’ve also done test work for different clients while keeping their documentation up to date. My favorite part about what I am doing is really learning different computer skills that I didn’t know existed. Knowing these skills makes it so much easier to maneuver around the technological things on the job! I know learning different computer skills will assist me further in my career as an accountant.” 👏 Let’s congratulate Derrick on his outstanding internship journey! Do you have an internship this summer? Let us know in the comments below so we can highlight your success. #TroyUniversity #SorrellCollegeofBusiness #SorrellGeeks

As the summer internship season kicks off, and we are welcoming our new interns at Michelman & Robinson, LLP, I'm reminded of my own transformative experience as an intern in Germany at the Frankfurt offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer over 20 years ago. It was my first international business experience, and little did I know then how much it would shape my personal and professional growth. To all the students embarking on internships this summer, whether close to home or far afield, I'd like to share some reflections from my journey: Embrace curiosity: Your internship is a unique opportunity to learn. Ask questions, seek out new perspectives, and absorb as much knowledge as you can. Curiosity is the fuel that propels growth and innovation. Dare to think big: Bring your best self to work each day and don't hesitate to contribute your ideas. Your fresh insights as an intern can spark meaningful change. Dream beyond the immediate tasks and envision the impact you can make. Connect with others: Your internship cohort and colleagues could become the cornerstone of your professional network. Build relationships, collaborate, and support one another. The bonds forged during this time can last a lifetime. Embrace the challenges: Growth often lies outside your comfort zone. Whether it is navigating a new environment, tackling an unfamiliar project, or communicating across differences, each challenge is a chance to develop new skills and resilience. Looking back, my internship in Germany was a pivotal stepping stone in my career journey. To all the interns of today, I wish you a summer filled with learning, growth, and exciting new horizons. Embrace this opportunity—it could be the start of something extraordinary.

Struggling to find out how to enhance your professional experience as a student? Check out this short video by the Florida International University - College of Business, where I share my internship experience with PwC this past busy season, and the benefits of interning before graduation! Regardless of your major, completing an internship before graduation will allow you to: 1.) Gain real-world experience within your desired career. 🌎 2.) Expand your professional network of peers, coaches, and mentors. 🙇♂️ 3.) Obtain career and industry knowledge that cannot be found in the classroom. 👩🏫 4.) Answer the question, "Is this the type of work I see myself doing for a long time?" 🤔 For more guidance on how to enhance your college and professional experience while at Florida International University, stop by the College of Business to pick up a College+Career Checklist. They've created a checklist for each year, from Freshman to Senior, with goals unique to each to keep students on track and growing! 💪 Special thanks to Michelle Lopez and Kaytlin C. Viera for putting together this awesome and informative video! Stay happy and healthy! https://lnkd.in/euKv9H3b

Interns and managers of interns — check out these tips from New York Life to make the most of your experience this summer. What additional advice do you have for interns and for their managers? #SummerInternship #TeamNYL

I loved this post from Asya Sharrow, and I think it's a great thought-exercise: Which early rejection are you most thankful for? For me, it was probably being rejected from the University of Michigan's Creative Writing Program (now called the Helen Zell Writers’ Program) back in ~2000. Being a fiction writer was my greatest ambition at the time. Not only did I have a great deal of passion for writing, but I also had a VERY, VERY high opinion of my abilities. (Yes, even back then!) I thought the application packet I submitted was going to blow everyone's wigs off, guaranteed. Except it didn't. And being labeled "not good enough" made me rethink...everything. Certainly my career path, but also my ability to self-evaluate. I'm not going to lie. It really hurt at first. But it also forced me to get creative about how I wanted to apply my talents and interests. After I got the rejection letter, I decided to re-focus on working for The Michigan Daily and exploring opportunities in journalism. That led to a madcap five-year run in the world of New York magazine publishing, and then seven years in online media — all of which gave me the skills I needed to transition to content marketing, a profession that has made me feel truly successful for the first time in my life. Now, what if I was one of the chosen few that got picked for U of M's Creative Writing Program? What if I'd gotten accepted, instead of rejected? I really don't know. Maybe I would have developed the skills and confidence to eke out a living as a semi-obscure fiction writer who publishes something every few years and never sells enough books to pay back my advance (or pay off my MFA loans), who has to supplement my passion through teaching creative writing, even though I was never a fan of being in classrooms in the first place. And that's a *best-case* scenario for most people who go through these programs. As a working artist, I would have continued to build my life on rejection letters and acceptance letters — a terrible way to live. My early rejection felt like a steel door slamming shut on one pathway in my life. But there were so many other pathways in front of me! I just didn't see them at first. Once I found them, the rest of my life began.

Considering a career in public relations? Check out this piece by Christina Fera and Emilita Dela Cruz on the internship experience at Argyle. Thanks for sharing Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) - Toronto! #pr #publicrelations #prcareer

This video features two students from SPU engineering and computer science. Well done!