🐋 Ever heard of an internship journal?

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Tech Pod

May 27, 2021

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Here’s the thing about internships: they fly by.

You spend all semester waiting for summer and then… poof! 💨

They end before you even had time to process what happened. 😰

But you’ll want to remember all the details for interviews, networking, and reflecting.

So with internship season starting up, here is a tool EVERY intern should know about.

What is an internship journal?

a diary + a work log = an internship journal.

It’s a place where you will record and reflect on what you’re learning. 🧐

Examples of entries: Tasks you accomplished, tools you used, people you talked to, mistakes and wins, questions, project details, and how you felt through it all.

Why should you have one?

It will provide you with personal insights.

You will do things in your internship that inspire and light a spark inside you

& You’ll discover that there are some things you never want to do again. 😹

Record these tasks and your personal experience doing them. You’ll begin your next internship/job search much more self-aware and confident about what you want to do.

It will supply you with resume material .

To leverage your internship experience in the future, you’ll need to be able to relay exactly what you did to an interviewer.

So record the details of your projects: the tools you used, success metrics, and the impact it made on the overall company. 📝

Don’t assume you’ll remember them! Make your life easy & record them upfront. 🙂

We've also curated some internship journal templates for you below! ⬇️

But before templates, let’s talk self-improvement summer…

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