1. Tips for a Successful Internship
How To Have A Great Internship Experience

2. Agenda Etiquette Ways to Impress Networking
Translating Experience Onto Your Resume

3. Etiquette Accept your intern status and use it to your advantage
EVERYONE has to pay their dues. Impress your boss by doing it with a can do attitude and a smile on your face.
Show up early and stay late
Take initiative
Avoid Negativity

4. Etiquette Stay away from your Facebook page
And Twitter
And Instagram …
Keep personal calls to a minimum
STOP texting unless you are in private
Not in a meeting
Not when having a conversation with someone
Not when eating lunch with someone

5. Ways to Impress Take Initiative Set personal goals for yourself
You may be homesick so make friends and get a social life outside the office
Learn to adjust to the new work environment – inside all day, set schedule etc.
Keep a weekly learning journal
List all skills you’ve learned with each project
Set up regular meetings with your supervisor
Go above an beyond what is asked of you

6. Ways to Impress Ask questions!
Take every opportunity to attend company events, meetings, trainings and workshops
Find a mentor
Leave with tangible accomplishments

7. Networking
Build professional relationships with your boss and co-workers
Break out of your cubicle and visit other departments
Conduct informational interviews
Prepare 30 second introduction - Who are you? What can you offer?
Business cards: the currency of networking

8. Networking Invite people to lunch Ask people to meet for coffee
Participate in company events like company softball games etc
Always offer to reciprocate assistance

9. Grand Exit
Make sure you have business cards of everyone you’ve worked with
Ask supervisors and mentors for letters of reference OR if you may use them as a reference
NEVER use someone without asking first
Complete exit interview and evaluations
Add experience to your resume refer to your learning journals
Hard skill like programming, engineering etc
Soft skills like presentations, communication, teamwork, creativity

10. Questions GT Internship Program 631 Cherry St. Atlanta GA 30332