Reflect upon the experience
Conduct a self-assessment and ask yourself the following questions about the experience:
- Did you find your internship met the expectations you had when you began?
- Did your performance meet your own goals and expectations?
- What did you get out of the experience?
- Would you consider working at this company after you’ve completed campus?
- Did you work as hard as you possibly could?
- What did you learn?
- What was most beneficial to you?
- What could you have done without?
- What could you have done to make yourself more visible?
- Was this company/industry a good fit for you?
- Were there connections between what you learned on the job and what you learned in the classroom? If so, what were they?
- How did this experience affect your post-graduation plans?
- What skills did you acquire/enhance on the job?
- How did this experience stretch you?
- What did you contribute to the organization?
- What difficulties or problems did you encounter?
- What changes did you see in yourself or the organization as a result of this experience?
- What recommendations would you make to improve the experience for the next intern?
Update your resume
Write down everything you did during your internship. List all of your duties, responsibilities, and accomplishments. Do not worry about whether they were trivial or impressive; just jot all of them down. Also, make a note of job functions or areas of expertise you were exposed to through your observations, even if you didn’t do those things yourself.
Reread any descriptions of your internship from when you first heard of it. If that is not available, ask your internship supervisor for suggestions on how to describe the experience.
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Using this information, work with your career counselor to update your resume.
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