Tag Archives: Purdue University
Email and Texting: The Technology That Knows No Boundaries
Entry by Valerie Petrey, Public Relations & Event Planning Intern, Purdue Liberal Arts Career Development
All of my weeks tend to have a topic that consistently comes up in classes and at my internship. This week the trending topic is email and texting.
Our generation would much rather send an email or text than talk on the phone, and thatâs okay for most people because time is precious and itâs nice to read something at oneâs leisure. However, where do you draw the line?
Is it acceptable to text your boss and tell him or her you arenât coming to work? What about emailing a future prospective employer and addressing him or her with a âHey whatâs up?â Should you secretly blind copy (BCC) a person on an email, or copy someone who hasnât been on that particular email string? The ethics behind email and texting …
The #1 Interview Question: âTell me about yourself.â
Entry by Valerie Petrey, Public Relations & Event Planning Intern, Purdue Liberal Arts Career Development
Preparing for an interview, whether for an internship or job is stressful. Itâs simple to answer questions about yourself, right? The hard part is answering those questions in a way that will convey your specific skill set to an employer.
When answering the infamous question, âtell me about yourself,â you must limit the answer to a minute or two. Also keep in mind your future employer doesnât care about your obsession with the Chicago Cubs, that you like music or if youâre double jointed, UNLESS you can turn those things into experience that would benefit the job you want to do for that employer. In which case it would make you stand out among the hundreds of other candidates.
A fabulous guest speaker came to my class this week and told us the story of …
Interning After Graduation?
Entry by Valerie Petrey, Public Relations & Event Planning Intern, Purdue Liberal Arts Career Development
For those of you job searching with me, this blog is for you!
Regardless of the economy it can be difficult to find a job. Itâs different now because companies have more to lose if their recent hire canât handle the job responsibilities. Letâs say Company X hired âMaryâ on as their copywriter. It appeared that âMaryâ knew how to write and could work under pressure but when she was assigned to produce a brochure for Company X, her writing skills were less than immaculate and she crumbled under time limits.Â
Company Xâs time and money was wasted, and they were forced to let her go and search for a new copywriter. Unfortunately things like this happen in the workforce, which may lead an employer to assume all new grads are like this. This is …
Getting Yourself Noticed by New Blog Author Valerie Petrey
Entry by Valerie Petrey, Public Relations & Event Planning Intern, Purdue Liberal Arts Career Development
Hello everyone! My name is Valerie Petrey. Iâm currently a senior at Purdue University majoring in public relations and advertising and will graduate this May. To learn a little bit more about me and what I will be blogging about, please read on!
 In todayâs workforce you need to have an internship to get a job, and most of the time you need a few. Employers LOVE to hire students fresh out of college with real work experience! This semester I will be sharing experiences of my current internship with Purdue Liberal Arts Career Development (LACD), advice I have received from past internships and my current journey of locating internships and jobs via social media and traditional methods.
The best advice I can give anyone is to take a chance. While it is easiest to …
New Blog Author: Brittney Horn
Entry by Brittney Horn, Membership Intern, Greater Lafayette Commerce
Hi everyone! My name is Brittney Horn and I will be submitting blog posts this semester detailing my experience of being an intern! I am currently interning with the Greater Lafayette Commerce in Lafayette, Indiana. My title is âMembership Internâ but Iâm pretty much the âDo whatever is thrown to me internâ and I love it. Letâs rewind a little here though and give you a little background information about me.
I graduated from Purdue University this past May with a degree in Public Relations & Rhetorical Advocacy. I completed two internships during school while also living in a cooperative house and taking on leadership positions during my 3 1/5 years at Purdue (I first went to Indiana University). These experiences led me to Vail, Colorado for this past summer working with a vacation rental company as their Public Relations Intern. …
The Benefits of using Partnerships to Grow Your Internship
Entry by Ashley Cashen, Talent Acquisition and Retention Coordinator, digitalKnowledge
As you may recall in my earlier blog entries, digitalKnowledge chose to team up with the Interns for Indiana Program through Purdue University for their first internship. We chose to go this route for a couple of reasons. First and foremost, with this being our first internship in company history we could use the help. Interns for Indiana has supported our internship from the beginning, including sending us resumes of students who fit our criteria and setting up an âinterview fairâ for us to meet these candidates. Secondly, Interns for Indiana offers funding for smaller start-up companies.Â
Choosing to partner with Interns for Indiana has without a doubt been one of the best decisions we could have made. Not only do they offer administrative support to employers, but they also provide the interns with additional educational opportunities. Bart has had …
What if we CAN have a successful internship program?
Entry by Ashley Cashen, Talent Acquisition and Retention Coordinator, digitalKnowledge
Founded in 2003, digitalKnowledge is a smaller, but mighty IT consulting firm. Last fall it became very apparent that digitalKnowledge was missing out on a great opportunity â hosting an intern. When the idea first began circling the office, it made perfect sense. We are a smaller company, but that lends to our unique office culture – a culture that is a perfect educational environment for an undergrad intern.
Several months later, here we are, with the first dK internship program well under way. The process to get here consisted of a lot of research and conversations pondering that never-ending question, what if? What if we donât have enough work to keep the intern busy? What if we canât pay the intern enough? What if we donât have the staff to oversee the intern? And so on, and so on.
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