Jobs/Internships

List and describe your jobs

Include the following:

• • Name of organization or company

  • Dates you worked there

  • Your position

  • List or description of responsibilities

  • Name and title of supervisor, including contact information

Tip:

• • Use consistent formatting for all of the list information.

Include Artifacts

• • Did you keep a journal or notes that record your findings and experiences?

  • Did you take pictures during your internship?

  • Did you create a photo journal that documents your experience?

  • Did you create graphics that demonstrate your conceptual understanding of a topic?

Tips

• • • Label the artifact (so the reader knows what he is looking at).

    • Refer to the artifact in the internship description (so the reader knows why you have included it and the context it addresses).

    • Check the quality of a photo or a graphic after you have uploaded it into your portfolio. Does it need to be enhanced? Cropped? Enlarged? Reduced?

    • Check any links to online materials you have referenced, such as a trip journal or a photo journal. Do your links work?

Reflect

Guiding Questions

• 1. What have you learned from your work at XYZ that your prospective employer would value?

     • How is your work ethic demonstrated or enhanced through this job? (Consider how you balance school, family, activities, and a job. How do you manage your time and responsibilities?) Did this internship require you to maintain a level of confidentiality?

     • What have you learned about communication in different workplace contexts? How has your job required you to communicate differently with your peers and supervisor(s)? Did the internship require you to network with professionals whose expertise would help you solve a problem, compare options, recommend a best solution?

     • When or how have you needed to learn something new (information or skill) to do your job well? Was this skill or information provided through training or did you have to teach yourself? Did your internship require you to apply software of other special tools to complete the work?

     • When and how have you worked as a member of a team? Did you lead, follow, encourage, direct, facilitate?

     • Did anything change at your workplace resulting from your contribution? How? Be specific.

     • When or how have you had to respond to conflict on the job (conflicts with people, time, resources, expectations, etc.)? What was your response? How will you handle the next similar conflict based on your experience?

     • How was your performance assessed? What feedback did you receive regarding your performance? What changes did you make in how you did your job resulting from this feedback?

  2. How will your next job/position benefit from what you learned?