On Thursday, October 5th, 2017 my friends and I attended a Starr workshop on obtaining an internship. I picked this event along with my friends because I felt and still feel that an internship is beneficial, not only to the college exigence, but for the experience needed before entering the world and looking for a job. Furthermore, I felt that I could learn so much from interning at a company, but before I could do that I had to learn how to obtain the internship. I went to the meeting around 12:00 and signed in. We leaned so many things, including the steps to obtain an internship. One of the major things we all learned was the needed and improved resume. We were shown the format, and the update needed to make our resume look good. The objective was a necessity on our resume, as was our work experience which we learned most of us had if we looked hard enough. Next we leaned about the skills that the employers wanted. The first was leadership, than problem solving, the third was being success oriented with results, the fourth was being bale to work together in teams, and the fourth was the art of effective communication. All these skills were looked at as something each applicant needed. However, if you were good in all of these, than you would be considered as a star applicant. The last major thing we leathered before we left was some statistics. Around 68.9% of college seniors did at least one internship before they got a job. As the pre-conceived notion of having to start your internship on your junior year is wrong. Sophomore years when you internship should be started. In fact 58.9% of the students started their first internship before their junior year. This information section was something that I was looking forward to. It allowed me to learn about internships and see why they are so vital.
