Internship Readiness

The qualities of someone who is internship ready are professionalism, knowledgeable, striving to learn, and focused. I plan to demonstrate all the qualities I mentioned, but I also plan to demonstrate my potentials such as being capable of meeting deadlines, participation, and become proactive. My strategy for meeting deadlines would be to complete my assignments on time, have my time well manage, and organize by setting up a daily schedule on my Google calendar. I’ll participate by sharing my ideas with my co-workers, ask questions when I want to understand a certain assignment that is expected of me. I think being proactive is very crucial in the work place and I’m sure my manager will appreciate it. Setting up my priorities, efficient multitasking, and full time engagement, is what is going to help me achieve the art of being proactive. The changes I’m planning on making during the internship phase would depend based on the kind of responsibilities that are expected of me. For example, if I have a position in the help desk department, I plan to take advantage of it by using it as a way to grow my communication skills and find a method to combine it with my tech skills in order to succeed in the workplace. The knowledge, the skills, and the experiences that Year Up offers will be the tools I will use in order to accomplish my life time goals.

Goodwill

My first official legit job was working at a Goodwill store as a sales associate. I had three primary responsibilities working at Goodwill; one of them was to always make myself available to the customers whenever they needed assistance, second, always be proactive, never just stand there and do nothing, and third, always pick up phone calls no matter how busy I was while working as a cashier. As a sales associate, I was required to do a lot of multitasking, sometimes three things at once. It was quite bit stressful in the beginning because multitasking was one of my biggest growth areas. Thankfully for my enthusiasm and motivation on finally getting an opportunity, I took complete advantage to work on my growth areas. My organizational skills were one of my biggest strengths and it really contributed in the workplace. What I found enjoyable about working at Goodwill was the fact that I worked with funny people, so I remained entertained, I also made friends with some of the customers, most of the regular customers would demonstrate their appreciation to our services by giving good feedback, and of course the payment and hours weren’t too bad. There were certain things I didn’t find amusing, such as getting up at four o’clock in the morning, taking a two hour bus trip across the city to start working at 7 in the morning. From all my good and not so good experiences, I managed to learn a lot and build new skills along the way. I’ve learn to work under pressure, manage my time, increase my organizational skills, and from all the multitasking I had to go through, I’ve learned to handle it efficiently by setting my priorities first. I believe all the skills that I mention will serve me well in my internship because I saw how it made me successful working at Goodwill. As long as my motivation and enthusiasm keeps leading me forward, I believe I will be ready to contribute my skills and be ready to adapt to new ones at my internship.