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The Roaring Twenties: Developing a Post-Grad Community
This is a guest post from Sarah Eutsler. She is a freelance writer, the founder & editor of twentysomething Indy, and owner of On a Good Note Designs, an online stationery and gift shop. She’s a proud DePauw grad and active Delta Gamma alumna, serving on the board of the Indianapolis Alumnae of Delta Gamma and as an alumna volunteer for the Purdue and Butler chapters. When she’s not busy running around trying to do everything, she’s fueling her addictions to magazines and How I Met Your Mother or trying to blog here. Don’t be shy! Follow her and say hello on Twitter.
When I graduated from DePauw last year I was prepared for a lot of things: to work, to pay those dreaded bills, to spend weeknights going to bed early instead of doing homework (or splitting pitchers of Blue Moon at the campus bar with a few …
Internship Possibilities â From An Intern’s View
This summer was the ultimate internship experience. Not only was I an intern, but I was an intern for Indiana INTERNnet â the free internship matching program linking employers, students, high schools, colleges and universities.
I learned about internships while doing my own internship. I conducted research, wrote blogs and attended conferences about why students should have internships, why employers should hire interns, how internships are the perfect recruiting tool and how internships retain Indianaâs talent.
Not only did I hear about the benefits of an internship, but I experienced them too. I actively thought about my internship as a test-run for my actual career: What size company would I want to work for? What are the local opportunities unique to Indianapolis? How can I grow my own professional network?
Now, Iâm the biggest advocate for experiential learning. And why not? Internships are the best possible experience for …
The Psychology in Internships
This is a guest blog written by Nicole Francis, senior at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and Psychology major. She has recently completed a summer internship at Meridian Health Group, which is a chronic pain management facility in Carmel, Indiana.
Meridian Health Group focuses on providing various treatment options for people suffering from a variety of chronic conditions, recognizing that there is a mental component to pain and suffering. The mission at Meridian Health Group is to improve the quality of life by reducing physical and emotional suffering.
The majority of the psychology interns are doctoral students. Doctoral interns provide individual counseling and group therapy. A few of the interns facilitate a free weekly chronic pain management group. The lead psychologist, Dr. Ari Dean Gleckman has been my supervisor at Meridian Health Group for the last three months.
During the first week of my internship I collaborated with one of the …
The Hard-Hitting Truth About Internships
This is a guest blog by Samantha Morrison. She is a student at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and summer intern at USA Football.
I had the pleasure of working for a company called USA Football this past summer. USA Football is the national governing body of youth football in the United States. They strive to help make the game better and safer for those who play, coach, officiate, and organize football. This company is constantly providing new resources for the game, as well as perfecting drills to promote safer game practices such as heads up tackling. I know that more recently concussions have become a hot topic, so USA Football has put a major emphasis on concussion awareness.
I love what USA Football does and I love sports, so I was super excited when I found out I would be working as a Digital Sales Intern for them this summer. My main …
Taking Control of the Internship Experience
This is a guest blog by Molly Zweig. She is an Indiana University student majoring in International Studies and Spanish and minoring in Marketing and Portuguese. She plans to graduate in 2015. This summer, she is the Marketing Intern at the WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology in Bloomington. She works to promote WonderLab in many ways through traditional communications and marketing and social media.
One of the biggest challenges interns face is determining what exactly weâll be doing at our internships. You get a job description, but itâs hard to know until the end of the first week on the job if youâll be truly contributing to the company or if youâll be making copies and coffee. However, whatever kind of internship you have, you always have control over your experience.
I am truly grateful for the wonderful work environment and my supervisor at the WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology …
The Goodwill Indy Interns Outlet Adventure
This is a guest blog post from the Goodwill Good Stuff blog. Goodwill Good Stuff is a Goodwill blog that was created to inspire and encourage. . .and to be the trial and error documentation every thrifty-crafter should have available. Projects are dreampt up from Pinterest, shopper suggestions and ideas from other creative people. Supplies for projects are, as much as possible, found in central Indiana Goodwill stores. Have any project suggestions or want to show off your thrifty creations? Let us know at social@goodwillindy.org
Have you been to a Goodwill Outlet before? Itâs an experience like no other. Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana has a couple of marketing interns this summer and, as any good coworker would do, I took them to a Goodwill Outlet store. It seemed necessary to make sure they had a fully-rounded Goodwill shopping experience before their internship came to an end.
The Goodwill …
From Intern to Young Professional: The Who, What and Where of the Social Shift
A successful internship experience is a catalyst for work placement and community involvement for the young professional. Â This means focusing on a positive experience outside the office as well. So, Indiana INTERNnet provides opportunities for interns to network, socialize, and help the Indianapolis community.
Indy Interns, Indiana INTERNnetâs community-engagement initiative, provided a number of opportunities this summer, including an outlet to share internship experiences, learn about financial wellness, give back to the community, and explore the local Indy culture. But, whatâs next?
For the âpreâ young professional, the real world is a mysterious place. Shifting from college student and intern to young professional is about engaging in a new vibrant community, getting involved in community discussions, and creating a new social network with fellow young pros. It may sound logicalâperhaps even simpleâbut it requires time, effort, and knowing where to look for opportunities. So where should one …
So long, summer – Indy Interns’ final event!
We canât believe it eitherâyour summer internship is coming to an end! Hopefully, youâve gained the real-world experience you sought at the beginning of the summer. Perhaps youâve networked with local professionals and even socialized with fellow interns. But, have you truly explored Indy? If youâre looking to learn a little more about the Circle City and the Hoosier state, here is your chance!
Join Indy Interns for our final summer event. We will meet at MoâJoe Coffeehouse, walk a portion of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene & Marilyn Glick, and end with visiting the Indiana State Museum. Museum admission and lunch will be provided.
Who: Interns from Central Indiana
When: August 4, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. at MoâJoe Coffeehouse (If you canât make the trail, join us at the Museum at 10:30 a.m.) After touring the exhibitions interns will be asked a series of brief questions …
Intern Yesterday, Employee Today
This is a guest blog written by Drew Van De Wielle of. Drew graduated from Ball State University in December 2011, with a B.S. in Public History/Business Administration & Marketing. He worked as an intern at the Museum from January through May. He is a 2007 graduate of St. Josephâs High School in South Bend, and has also worked at United Beverage Distribution Company. Drew enjoys learning about South Bendâs rich industrial heritage and playing on a softball team for Barnabyâs.
Hello my name is Drew Van De Wielle South Bend native and Curator at the Studebaker National Museum. Before being hired for the full-time position of Curator, I was an intern from January through April.
My internship was a well-rounded experience. I was originally hired to gain experience with handling museum collections and to get an idea of how a successful small museum is run on a day-to-day …
Indy Interns Meet Pete
Interns from Central Indiana arrived at Interactive Intelligence to hear Pete the Planner share his words of wisdom. Pete broke down the secrets to good credit, how to pay off debt, three keys to budgeting, and ten ways to create financial momentum. Check out his website for more information, or even invest in one of his booksâyou wonât regret this purchase. He managed to fit in a toilet paper analogy, what the heck a 401k is, and what your parents have been wrong about all in a one hour.
If you couldnât attend and youâre looking for a real takeaway, check out Peteâs ideal budget. Itâs simple! If you spend less than the allocated percentage in one category, you can reallocate that money to another category (whether it is paying student loans or the new pair of shoes of youâve been eyeing).
Thanks to Indiana Council …
Lessons Learned as a 24-Year-Old Intern
Ali Turner is a professional writer and career blogger. She’s also the managing editor of Campuses to Careers, a blog that helps young people make informed career and education decisions. Topics covered on the blog include careers for shy people and how to follow up on a job application.
I am now proud to say that I was a 24-year-old intern. But I didn’t always feel that way. After graduation and struggling to find job prospects in this dismal economy, I decided to take an unpaid internship at an international non-profit. I knew that I needed more experience, and I decided that an internship related to public relations, the field I wanted to get into, was better than something completely random.
My admission to being a post-graduate intern was met with a little shock and even some snickering and eye-rolling. This negativity mostly (but not always) came from members of the older …
The Top 10 Questions Iâve Heard as Chancellor of WGU Indiana
This is a guest post written by Allison Barber, the Chancellor of WGU Indiana, the state’s accredited, non-profit, online, competency-based university. WGU Indiana is celebrating its two-year anniversity. The university has helped more than 2,600 students either finish their bachelor’s degree or earn a master’s degree. During the past two years, WGU Indiana has had students or gradutes in 90 counties of the state.
In this piece, Chancellor Barber reflects on some of the most common questions she’s heard in the last year years about WGU Indiana.
1. Why do you drive that crazy “WGU” car?
I decided in the middle of our first year to have a car wrapped in our university logo. Itâs the equivalent of driving a billboard! I drive that car all across the state and up to 1,000 miles a month. No matter where I travel folks often come up to me to ask about WGU …
Indy Interns presents…Pete the Planner
Always wondered what a 401(k) is? Have you struggled with creatingâand sticking toâa budget? What about the looming thought of paying off student loans and saving after you graduate?
Join us for Indy Internsâ Financial Wellness Workshop with âPete the Planner.â He hosts a popular financial planning segment on Indyâs 93 WIBC FM and regularly appears on national news outlets; heâs an award-winning comedian and author of What Your Dad Never Taught you About Budgeting.
Who: Interns from Central Indiana
Date: Thursday, July 19, 2012
Time: Check-in at 6 p.m.; Pete the Planner workshop from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Where: Interactive Intelligence, 7601 Interactive Way Indianapolis, IN 46278 (FREE parking!)
Special Information: Please let us know if youâll be attending Peteâs workshop by contacting Courtney Arango at csampson@indianachamber.com. Weâll have refreshments available for attendees, and Pete will have his books available for purchase at the event.
Indy Interns provides …
Interns Kicking off Summer in Style
What did you do last Saturday? Maybe you caught up on How I Met Your Mother or just slept the day away. Maybe you thought about doing something productive, but it just seemed too tiring after a full week of work. On the other hand, maybe you were one of the interns who explored downtown Indianapolisâdiscovering the nooks and crannies of our hometown.
Indy Interns kicked off the summer with a downtown scavenger huntâsearching the city and meeting fellow interns from across the area. Interns represented various organizations including Aprimo, ExactTarget, Interactive Intelligence, Mayor Ballardâs Internship Program, the Mental Health Association, Roche Diagnostics, Rook Consulting, and The Childrenâs Museum of Indianapolis.
Interns trekked all over downtown; they stopped by The Slippery Noodle Inn and the City Market, to the NCAA Hall of Champions and back to Scottyâs Brewhouse for a well-deserved recovery. Interns were challenged with tasks ranging from âtake …
Unexpected “Internduction”
This is a guest post written by Collin LaMothe. Currently, he interns for the Wellness Council of Indiana. He recently graduated from Ball State University with a degree in Creative and Professional Writing. He hopes to find a job where he can expand creativelyâtraveling, meeting new people, and writing about his own experiences.
My name is Collin LaMothe, and I am a cubicle intern.
This wasnât my first intern gig. When I was accepted at the Wellness Council of Indiana, I couldnât help but wonder what an out-of-shape guy like me was doing in an organization promoting health. I suppose it felt a little ironic, but my background in creative writing and design qualified me to lend some help with the main website redesign. So I signed-on for the summer, with the terms laid out plainly from day one. I was here to assist and, most importantly, renovate http://www.wellnessindiana.com before August …