I am currently studying a Bachelor of Communications in
Journalism, majoring in Creative Writing. This semester I am doing an
internship subject, we had our first seminar today.
During the seminar we discussed what is expected of us, as
students in our third and final year during our internship.
We discussed professionalism. This is an issue with which
everyone will have a different idea in their minds of what professionalism entails.
Is it how we are dressed? Which is still an important consideration in our
internship, whether during an interview or on your first day. You do not want
to go to your internship or your interview without dressing professionally and
definitely not wearing anything (ladies) provocative. You want your possible
future boss to take what you have to say seriously. You do not want to limit
yourself, and your possibility for the job, by under-dressing or over-dressing.
A consideration when you have the job is how you act when
you get there. You want to remain professional, don’t try and be overly
friendly with everyone straight off the bat. Friendships may grow over the
length of your internship, but you do not want to be known as the person who
annoyed everyone in the office with their incessant chatting.
A fear that I feel everyone, especially me, has before
embarking on an internship is a simple one. What to expect. It is the fear of
the unknown that scare us the most. But with our past 3 years of learning it is
hopeful that my teachers have given me every possible advantage to succeed in
the field I have chosen.
I have expectations that I will learn more ‘real world’
practices that will help me in my future endeavours by completing this
internship. I expect to learn how to communicate and work in a professional ‘real
world’ environment. I hope that I will be able to learn new skills that I can
take along with me in the future. And most of all I hope that I will work hard
enough to impress my co-workers. So I will be able to make contacts through
this internship that may help me when I graduate to find more permanent
employment.
I have chosen to embark on my internship with something that
is a little out of the journalism realm this semester. I am not 100% sure where
my passion lay and I would like to try something new.
