π Ever heard of an internship journal?
And your chance to work with mentors from Netflix, Uber, Doordash, Linkedin, and more!

Hereβs the thing about internships: they fly by.
You spend all semester waiting for summer and thenβ¦ poof! π¨
They end before you even had time to process what happened. π°
But youβll 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.
Itβs a place where you will record and reflect on what youβre learning. π§
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
& Youβll discover that there are some things you never want to do again. πΉ
Record these tasks and your personal experience doing them. Youβll 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, youβll 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. π
Donβt assume youβll remember them! Make your life easy & record them upfront. π
We've also curated some internship journal templates for you below! β¬οΈ
But before templates, letβs talk self-improvement summerβ¦
How many times have you told yourself that you wanted to learn SQL? Python? Data visualization?
β¦and it never ends up happening π
Itβs alrightβweβre right there with you on that one.
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The curated template list: β¨
PDF: A framework with fill-ins that will get you started
PDF: Internship journal example
Web: Journal questions for the beginning, middle, and end of your internship
Our internship picksβfresh out of the oven π
PRODUCT
Product Manager Shopper Experience, Poshmark
MARKETING
Email Marketing Fellowship, Ziff Media Group
SALES & PARTNERSHIPS
Sales & Operations, CED Greentech
COMMUNICATIONS
Employee Communications, Lytx, Inc.
Internal Communications, Facebook
aaand thatβs all for this week!
New here! But I appreciate and love the information you all work so hard to curate and report back to us. So happy I found the Tech Pod!