Summer Internship | What are the benefits you didn't know about?

May 18, 2022

Continuing to focus on the topic of summer internships, what are the benefits of summer internships today?

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Summer Internship | What are the benefits you didn't know about?

Every five minutes, master practical skills, so that you can calmly deal with workplace affairs!

【Foreword】

Good day, my friend, I am Brother Stone - your career mentor . Received a gmail letter from Alice last night (this is the other one after the letter from the company's mailbox), which reminds me that this is not exactly what I mentioned in my last article: " Vacations are reserved for the brave. "? I admire this classmate very much. She will take the initiative to seek solutions when encountering problems, which is also in line with the company's pursuit of excellence from A to A+, isn't it?

In recent years, I have interviewed many students for winter and summer internships. The outstanding Taiwan, Qing, Jiao, Cheng and Zhong, the biggest difference between them and ordinary classmates is that they are very clear about what they want and what their goals are, and they are very disciplined towards Chasing your own dreams. Even a classmate from the Engineering Institute of Chenggong University told me that he liked programming languages since he was a child. , the project to verify giftedness is sometimes really innate.

Well, aside from the less than 10% of gifted students, what you really want is a differentiated strategy. If you go out of your own way, you can still be brilliant and dazzling.

♟ Module Category: Workplace Case Studies - Lecture 2: Internship/Industry-University Integration
♟ Scope of application : This is a course that can be planned for network building and two courses for job improvement; students who are preparing for internships and part-time jobs are suitable for taking them. This medicine can help you gain a little more during your internship, and use it to build up your personal Image brand, after graduation, companies want to hire you more.

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"Life will lose its zest if you are content with the status quo." - Mandela / Former South African President

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"College life is to be exciting, whether it is fun or exploration"

Teacher, should I take a summer internship?
If I approach from the perspective of "subject separation" in Adler's psychology, what you need to think about is: "whose subject is this," yours? or mine? I understand that this is your subject, it's just education that trains us to be non-thinkers. If I were to answer, I think college life is all about having fun, whether it's fun or self-discovery, just don't waste precious time in exchange for small hourly fees. (ps. Except for special circumstances)

But the question arises again, what is wonderful? Everyone's definition is different, you have to ask yourself, what do you want? What will you be? "If this moment is the future", which field would you like to stand in to shine? When you think about it clearly, you will naturally be able to sort out the university life you want.

After all, when you enter the workplace and socialize, many things do not need to be assigned by the supervisor, but you will continue to put forward innovative ideas and continuous improvement, and even your ability may exceed the value required by the job. But if you are just a command and an action, then your value can only be weighed. Therefore, I often encourage students and colleagues to come up with their own ideas, what do you want to do? Why do you think so? What are your plans? Can you rundown and let me see it? How long is its payback?

"If at that time, take the question mark to explore, I should be more exciting at this moment"

I don't recommend you to do an internship as a freshman or a sophomore, so what are the benefits you don't know about going for an internship as a junior or senior?

✅1 . Feel free to change jobs at this moment, which is called exploring yourself:
The benefits of student internships are: jumping jobs at the moment, called exploring yourself, knowing what you like? Watermelon, pineapple, or guava. After graduation, random job hopping~~ is called poor stability.
When you don't know what industry you like to work in? Which job is suitable for? When you are at a loss for the future, you can take advantage of the internship opportunity to interview in all walks of life, or focus on the field you want to develop to send your resume, try it out, and make the gap between dreams and reality closer. , wouldn't it be better if it fits your preferences and what you've learned? Better than after graduation, you dare not change jobs at will, because your resume will record the glorious deeds of your constant job-hopping and poor stability.

✅2. Don't care what department you study, it doesn't matter if you have a little pain:
Do I have to go to the Human Resources Internship to study in the Human Resources Department? Can't I go to a home sale? When you introduce each housing item to the client, you are implementing the actual sales strategy in the "Strategic Management" course, aren't you?

Can't go to the production line for an internship? Of course, you can. You don't know what talents are needed in the front line, you don't know the work content of the front line, and you don't know what professional knowledge is needed in the front line... How to be grounded? Breaking through the framework of the department, no matter what the title is, it's also great as an experience camp, isn't it? This is something you won't dare to do in the future when you enter the workplace!

✅Third, let yourself develop into a π-type talent:
do you know? If you graduate from college, you are just a blank piece of paper that has never been socialized, and you will be regarded as a layman by the interview supervisor. Because of these four full years of brilliant time, you have been fooling around, never adding firewood to your dreams, giving you enough knowledge, expertise, skills, and insight.

I still remember that Professor Shi Qintai, the chairman of the Information Policy Association at the time, once said, "What is most lacking in the 21st century are integrated talents and π-type talents." And in fact, after so many years of observation, this is really the case.

✅Fourth, practice a good job interview:
If you go for an internship during the winter and summer vacations from junior year to senior year, you will have six opportunities to interview. If you can interview three companies each time, you will accumulate 18 interviews before graduation. Even if If you don't get accepted at all, you'll be good at interviewing, right? In the future, you will know how to write your resume, and you will be able to make Q&A with the questions you will be asked in the interview, and your coping skills in the interview will not be difficult for you. At this moment, it is not a problem to choose a better company and a better job vacancy.

Trying something and learning from it when you fail is better than doing nothing at all. — Mark. Zuckerberg/Facebook founder

✅5. Others are interviewing for jobs, but you are selecting supervisors:
To paraphrase Cai Qingrong, former vice president of Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore, said: There are three circles in the workplace, from the inside to the outside are supervisors, ecology, and industries; if you meet a good supervisor, you can learn a skill; if you encounter a good ecology, you You can meet peers who can help each other and make rapid transitions; if you go to the right industry, you will win a better salary; if all three are right, you can really rise to the top, and you will be promoted.

So in 18 interviews, there will always be someone you like and who appreciates you. Isn't it great? Unless, of course, you're not a Maxima.

✅Six, take a good question mark to explore:
Maybe, maybe, not necessarily, 90% of the knowledge taught in school is not used in the workplace, do you believe it? Maybe you will reply to me and say: Then why am I paying so much to go to college?

Going to university is to nurture your character and thinking, so that you can gradually learn to think independently. There are professors as benchmarks and templates, which allow you to accumulate some kung fu (knowledge). Going for an internship is to actually fight and verify these kung fu (knowledge). ) practical? Do you know how to integrate? When you go through the guidance of a workplace mentor and understand how to combine learning and use, it is like opening up your two veins, and you can understand the secret of the last form of the Tathagata's palm in Zhou Xingchi's kung fu movie "Ten Thousand Buddhas Chaozong".

【in conclusion】

You are the CEO of your career . Take advantage of the winter and summer internship opportunities. Whether you are exploring yourself or building a dream, as long as you are at a loss, you think of a silly stone standing here quietly, providing you with free consultation and negotiation, so that you can Good wind, with its strength, will send you to the blue sky.
Finally, I sincerely hope you: take out a pen and paper and write it down. I keep revising, revising, and revising, and slowly I will outline what I want, what I know, and what is still missing? Only those who can deploy ahead of time can make themselves a sought-after outstanding talent in the future employment market with fewer birthrates. Come on, my friend, I believe you can.