Laurel Miller

My experience was fantastic overall. I got exposed to different types of work tasks for my Technology Risk Advisory team. I talked to many people in other Advisory groups within Deloitte. I experienced the more stressful parts of the job and saw that it was bearable. I made new friends that I want to keep for a long time. I found the environment of professional services firms to be a great fit for me. I’m happy that I had the chance to intern this summer with Deloitte. I wrote a more detailed post about my experience on my MIS site http://community.mis.temple.edu/ngocpham/

I had an amazing experience. I learned a lot of useful skills and met great people throughout the company. Being my first corporate role in a company I got to experience the full experience by assisting several different departments. I started off in the service management office doing excel spreadsheets and footprints work. Then I transisted into the IT asset management department. I took apart over 200 desktop and labtop computer hard drives. After that I am currently finishing off my experience assisting the Desktop Engineering team by backing up and replacing over 30 employee desktops for workers who rely on this for their everyday work.

My experience at SAP was amazing. I learned so many tangible skills and intangible skills. I really like the SAP corporate culture and am trying to land a full time offer. One of the best part about working at SAP that I did not mention before is their food! They have many dinning options with amazing chefs that cook delicious food. Taco Tuesdays are my fave! I was able to get a full time offer for for the summer about a different project. Planning on having it turned into a full time offer!
I really like the part about gathering requirements proposing design solutions and actually building the site. looking forward to do something along those lines for full time!

My time at goPuff was unforgettable. Being in a disruptive company, I have a chance to see such a historical moment to see the company grow so quick, make friends, know about people at goPuff. Also, the co-founders inspired me with their story and background. They are only a few years older than me and now own a multi-million dollar company! I was lucky enough to be here for the annual offsite to hear about goPuff visions, stories, and culture. It was the moment that I decided to apply after graduation.

I loved my QVC internship! I am not quite done as I still have about a week to go but thinking about leaving here is already bittersweet. I have really learned a lot of lessons during my time and cannot thank the QVC team enough for being so welcoming & caring. My team has been wonderful and they always have treated me as I am a part of them! I would love to take the opportunity of continuing my journey at QVC but unfortunately I won’t be able to commute to West Chester after the school year starts. Temple is quite far away and traffic tends to make it more difficult to get to the office. Nevertheless, I am excited for what my next internship holds! I am definitely considering applying to QVC for the next summer and maybe staying on for a longer time then.

My experience with Fox Run Brands is really beneficial. I have learned more about the customer goods and e-commerce industry. One of the most exciting things is that I have the chance to learn about Amazon advertising. I have been analyzing and creating different ads on both Amazon Vendor Central and Seller Central. Working for this company will be one of my choices after graduation

For me, the internship ended today. I was waving goodbye and hugging my team, my project team, and the whole class of Ogilvy interns this afternoon. Excuse me as I got long-winded a bit.

After everything, I learned the foundation of almost all aspects of advertising: from research, planning, strategy, to creative, production, and (data-driven) delivery. My work in the Social Practice allows me to get between the tech and humanities. I learned to look at conversation data for peaks, percentages, while using my understanding of culture to decipher the core behind the conversations. I was tasked with looking out into the industry and find the best and latest in Social, to enrich both myself and my team; I got to look into social platforms to understand them inside and out.
The best part though is to get to know the people. The whole class of interns are genuine, kind, and incredible driven. I found out that my network expanded 3 folds with them in it, and that they taught me so much during my time working on a project with them.
I completed my internship with a greater network, many more friends, and a direction. I know that the Associates Program of Ogilvy is difficult thing to enter (no fast track I guess), but I will use every bit of myself and what I learned here to get in again.

Still, Ogilvy has given me the ability and strength to go at opportunities, even ones I have not thought of.

My experience at RSM was very informative and fun. The team I worked with had a great group of people from the associate level, all the way up to partners. As far as the work I did, getting a chance to go behind the scenes of an ERP implementation was extremely informative. My only regret was that my time at this internship was so short, which limited my ability to learn even more. This internship as a consultant definitely allowed me to narrow down which direction I want to take my career. I’m coming into my last week, where I hope to receive word on whether I can come on full time.

My experience at Universal Health Services has been very positive. I have learned a lot and met many great people including the people on my team and the other interns on different teams. I never really considered going into a health care field, but it seems like a very rewarding job and the people that work here really love what they do. I have never worked in an office setting so it was very different for me, but the culture here seems like a good fit and something I could get used to. My supervisor has asked me to join the team full time when I graduate in December, which I am very fortunate for. I am excited to see where this experience will take me in my career.

I had an amazing experience at Campbells! I loved almost everything about it: the culture, the people, meaningful work for an intern. I’m very grateful for this internship and the impact it has had on me – as well as the opportunity for me to make an impact at the company.

I will stay on part-time during the year to lead a project that I’ve been working on – I’m very excited for the journey ahead!

I have had a great experience this summer with Cigna. I still have two more weeks left, and will spend the last week in Connecticut where the interns will be presenting our projects to senior leaders. The internship ends on the 17th, and I will find out if I will be offered a full-time position shortly after, but I am considering staying on part-time once school starts. Overall, my internship has been awesome and provided me with so many opportunities to learn, meet new people, and push myself out of my comfort zone. I’ve liked being a part of a program because it gave me the opportunity to meet full-time associates who are generally around the same age as me and hear about their experiences/why they chose Cigna. Everyone I’ve met has been so friendly and willing to help, which has made this learning experience very fun and I am very grateful that I got to spend my summer at such a great company.

Today my internship at Ernst and Young ended, and it was all that I could have ever wanted. I got to meet some extraordinary people and learn quality skills that will last me for a lifetime. I was able to network with employees and interns from all over the country and world this past week at our International Intern Leadership Conference in Disney. As well as get to hear some unbelievable speakers and take part in leadership/team-building activities. During the course of my internship I learned a lot about not just Risk Advisory but also myself and how I like to work. I am pleased to announce that I have been able to take this opportunity and turn it into a full-time offer for next year!

This has been a fantastic one, I will certainly remember it for the rest of my life. Beyond running Vitris I completed my bachelors degree, this assignment being the last one of my college career. We’ve grown a lot together at Vitris over the past couple months, I’m constantly looking back and thinking about what I’ve done wrong in the past which gives me a feeling of progress because we continue to overcome obstacles. Although the mistakes of the past bother me, they also help shape our wins of today so hopefully the mistakes I’m making today will shape our progress of the future.

I continue to receive job offers from recruiters, hiring managers and people in my network. However, I’m pretty happy with the position Vitris is in today and will keep working full-time for the foreseeable future.

Some lessons I learned during my internship that could not be learned in the classroom are how to be proactive, completing the steps to actually implementing an ERP system, and client communication over the phone.
Since I’m just an intern I do not have a workload of my own and am reliant on my team members to delegate work to me, so part of what I learned about being proactive is asking for work from each team member that way they were aware I had free time to help them on their projects.
As far as implementing an ERP system, we can learn theory in the classroom, but when its an actual client it is a whole new experience and how to handle the changes are a part of the lessons I have learned.
Lastly, phone calls are my biggest weakness, but a part of being a good consultant is being able to communicate effectively over the phone to the client. Good phone communication allows meetings to go quicker, the correct information gathered, and the reduction in confusion as to what needs to be done.

A few things I’ve learned throughout my internship so far is how large corporations operate and communicate. I never worked in a company this large before with so many departments. I’ve learned that communication is key in being succesful in this kind of job because when you run into an issue you have to propertly communicate that to another department. A great example for this is while some people in IT communicate one way,others in servicing may be less experienced in technology and communicate in simpler terms when having to complete an online task.

One thing I learned from my internship that I could not learn in the classroom is that even though UHS is a huge company with many different teams that contribute different things, we all need to work together to accomplish tasks. You may think that one team is completely unrelated to another one, but if you want to implement a change there is a huge possibility that many teams will be effected by that change. So it is crucial to communicate with one another. Communication and working in teams is something you can learn in the classroom, but to this degree is something you have to experience in the corporate world. Another thing is phone etiquette like when you are on a conference call with many people. It is important to not cut people off, but equally important to be able to get your input in there. At first, it was hard for me to interject, but sometimes it is what you need to do and I have become more comfortable with it.

Selling products in the e-commerce is the things that I could not just learn the classroom. In class, we usually study about what is digital marketing, e-commerce, how it looks like, how can we figure the strategies for it but we did not learn the real-life skills of it. As working in the Sales Analyst position, I have to deal a lot with e-commerce skills. I started learning different new skills about this area that I had not learned in class.

Couldn’t agree more with being comfortable with being uncomfortable. It feels like almost everyday half of my calendar is rearranged.

Like a lot of answers above, I agree that communication cannot be learned from a textbook. Each company has different styles of communication. At goPuff, it’s common to call each other “bro” or “fam”, and use emojis in our Slack channel. This is directly related to their young culture. It takes me a little bit of time to adjust my communication style to my coworkers since I was used to the formal Fox school style. Knowing what is appropriate and not over the line is important when your boss is only a few years younger than you.

Most of what I learn on this internship and the last were new to me, as Fox does not have a structured course in advertising or agency work. There are a few key things that can’t be learned in a classroom:
– How a particular organization works: how each person work with other members in the team; how knowledge-sharing works on Slack and other channels; and who specializes on what area, regardless of titles.
– Technical skills: an organization can use a specialized set of tools for analytics, research, and intelligence, requiring newcomers to attend training in each tool set.
– Strategic thinking: by working on real projects with real clients, I practiced approaching a problem and solving it in terms of industry and company-specific frameworks.
= Relationship management: managing expectations from colleagues and bosses; learning how to ask for advice and learn new things; and showing initiative at key moments.
– Tons of industry knowledge: after many years in operation, the organization has amassed a vast amount of past cases, best practices, and unique lessons. I learned a lot just by looking through Ogilvy’s archive of slide decks and marketing cases.

One thing I’ve learned from working at Campbells, the same thing as a lot of previous comments mentioned, is the importance of tracking and following up – taking ownership of something until it is done. Before, I was used to the thinking that as long as I do my part well, others’ parts are their responsibilities – however, working in the real world, I’ve learned that I’m also responsible for supporting others to do their parts well in order to drive a project to success.

Organizational skills cant be taught in class. Everyone has different way of organizing their documents and appointments. Some use planners some use straight memory. I found simple technological tools like outlook calendar and to-do list was very important skill that came handy. Secondly, As I was in charge of managing my department’s JAM site platform is similar to a word press drag drop site. I did not learn the platform in class but fortunately SAP had plenty of tutorials or me to learn this from.

A skill that I learned during my internship and not in the classroom would be adjusting to someone working style. During my time with QVC, I had to collaborate with various people from different departments. This experience forced me to learn about their work flow and communication style to be able to work better together. Also, my internship taught me how to manage tasks that are unexpected in time-crunch situations. At times, something might come up and I would have to drop everything and direct my attention to a completely different task. This taught me how to stay calm & not panic and manage my time better when things come up.

In my opinion, the MIS program has done an amazing job preparing me for this internship.

I used most of what I have learned in MIS classes in this internship. I have been in two WordPress projects, which using the community site and taking MIS3501, 3502 definitely helped. 3506 gave me the understanding of business analysis, which is a critical skill for what I do, I haven’t taken MIS3535 but I wished I took it last semester because a lot of what I do now is project management. I can’t stress enough how helpful MIS2501 was because it helped me to understand the architecture component of every project I manage now, and the company is actually migrating its data centers to Azure this year – the very technology we learned in class!

In addition to skills learned in class, I have learned so much from life experience of professors who have been in the industry, like professor Doyle and professor Sclarow. Through their stories, I learned what to expect about IT professionals or senior management, workplace etiquette and politics,

The following courses and activities at Temple have really helped me in this internship:
– Excel: our business Excel course does a great job in giving us the methods for using Excel effectively and efficiently.
– Analytics competitions: these taught me to find data from government/industry sources quickly, and then use knowledge of data to clean, combine, and compare them in useful ways, My constant practice in creating charts and graphics also helped me produce a chart that actually helped my team decide on customer segments.
= MIS – Digital Studio: an ad agency deals heavily in client relationship, and the course taught me to see things from the perspectives of the client and its customers. Knowing how to scope a project and to develop personas are also useful for building the sales pitch.
– MIS – Data Science & Data Analytics: I applied my understanding of data to analyzing data sources (for research) and to evaluating digital and social ad campaigns. Knowing which customer data were necessary to run an idea allows me to look beyond the hype for the true innovation and value behind a new campaign.
– Marketing courses: the business fundamentals necessary for every task in the agency.
– The process: the whole process of learning, especially in MIS, requires constant self-education and practice. The habit I cultivated to get better at coding, business analysis, and analytics has helped me keep up with industry trends, new changes to ad platforms, and complex KPI measurements.

The MIS program and Fox School as a whole have helped me greatly so far in my internship.
MIS 3506 was super helpful because it helped me prepare to meet with clients and to formulate what kind of questions I need to be asking. Although I am in audit and not consulting, so I am not taking the same steps as the class project, scoping out projects helped me learn what it is in a project I should be looking for and how to document appropriately. MIS 2502 was also helpful because of our use with SQL, when auditing clients I have to make sure that the SQL scripts that they give to us as evidence provide enough information to properly determine if their processes are accurate. Business communications taught me how to be concise and proper when communicating with coworkers/clients. MIS 2501 helped me gain a understanding about how enterprise architectures work, allowing me to gain a better understanding of how all the systems and applications I audit come together.

Some things that I have learned in the classroom that I have leveraged at my internship is basic knowledge of financial statements, such as what comprises them and the general rules. I have also had to leverage my knowledge of query statements in order to get the information needed to complete some of the tasks I have been handed. Something more general that I have leveraged is being able to sit down with a problem to attempt to figure it out myself before getting help from a supervisor. I picked this up while in the classroom since it’s not possible to get every question answered in a timely manner in the classroom. This applies to the workplace as well; if I always waited for answers to questions, I would not be able to complete my tasks efficiently. A final piece of knowledge that I have leveraged is professional business communication skills that I learned in Business Communication. I have been using the skills learned in the class to craft better emails and business requirements documentation.

the courses MIS2502 (Data Analytics) and MKTG3508 (Digital Marketing) provided me many skills that has leveraged my internship. For the course MIS2502, I have learned how to analyze data and create reports. These skills help me a lot since I have to analyze large number of data during the internship. Besides, the course MKTG3508 gave me the knowledge about Digital Marketing and SEO which helps me alot to understand about Amazon campaign and ranking.

In my opinion, there are a great deal of skills I learned at MIS that really help me during my internship.

Data analytics: Since one of my project is doing data analytics to find insight and pattern for the League. The data analytics class is a great course for developing myself with a data mindset and continue learn the SQL database skills. Nowadays, the industry is filled with numbers and figure, thus, the class allow to give us the necessary tool (SQL Workbench, Excel, PowerPivot, graphs) to transform the data into information.

IT architecture: This course is great and necessary for MIS. Before I started my internship I have no knowledge how extensive cybersecurity and Windows Management are in the business world. Basically, these are the backbone that support the enterprise software, complicated networking, remote access to different computers, SONICWALL system and so on. These skills are necessary because it is a valuable knowledge to have for leveraging ourselves, since the pay rate for this knowledge is relatively higher

Over the past few years, I have learned a lot from the different classes in Fox and the MIS program, and have been able to leverage so much of what I’ve learned in the classroom during my internship this summer. Two classes that I would say have been especially helpful were Business Communications and MIS 3506. I have applied lessons from BizComm when it comes to writing emails effectively and giving strong presentations. I have also been able to apply a lot of what I learned in MIS 3506 to my work on the summer intern project. Understanding how to put together a scope document and use cases, as well as knowing how to ask the right questions to the right stakeholders, has been extremely beneficial in guiding me as I put together my team’s project charter, plan out features/user stories, and reach out to the project sponsors with questions.

There are several things that I’ve learned in the classroom that helped me leverage my internship.

Excel was one of the main things that was important to gain knowledge of since pretty much every task that I do at work requires it. I was also happy to find that the ability to use shortcuts within the program allowed me to complete assignments faster and be able to finish more work efficiently.

MIS 3501 helped me understand how a website is constructed. Because of this I am able to communicate faster with the IT team and overall comprehend my job better.

Finally, Marketing 2101 gave me the general marketing knowledge that I needed to be able to participate in conversations in regards to the upcoming promotions or changes that are going to be done on the website.

Many of the things I have learned throughout my experience at Temple I have been able to leverage during my internship. For example, in the Data Analytics course (MIS 2502) we learned SQL which has helped me because here at UHS we use something called CCL (Cerner Command Language) which is exactly like SQL. I am constantly running queries and audits to gather data. In that same course we also learned how to extract data from large sets of data in excel using a number of different ways like VLOOKUP. I have used VLOOKUP a number of times and it is something that has been very useful. Another course that has proven to be very helpful is Business Communications (BA 2196). Every day I send emails and messages and I have to always make sure to maintain a professional tone. That course taught me the fundamentals of working in an office setting and the do’s and dont’s of being a working professional.

So Far I applied many of what I learned in the Excel course I took last year in my everyday job functions. Throughout most days I extract data from a database and then filter it out to use the only data I need. I often use pivot tables and color coding to help organize my excel spreadsheets and manipulate data. I also use what I learned in business communications as well, I try and keep my messages short and simple without too much fluff to bring my point across in a short professional email or skype message. I also applied what I learned from our CSPD class on how to act, dress and communicate around to office, I found what I learned at Fox really helpful in my career so far.

At SAP, I have significant data analysis and BI work. I have developed this skill from my data science and data analytics class. The excel formulas, tips and trips I learned in these classes has made my job easier. Lumira, a Business Intelligence program by SAP is very similar to Tableau which I learned in Data Science. The skills I learned in these classes helped with data related tasks. I am learning many project management skills in MIS 3535 that I have used while managing short projects at SAP.
I have also done a lot of work with gathering requirements and building a new internal and external site for Partners with agile approach. I learned this skill in MIS 3506 and MIS 3535.

I have been having a really hard time trying to balance two. Working on a new schedule has me still attempting to adapt, and I still can’t quite get my phone calendar to properly alert me about the dates that I set for this classes assignments. So, my current system of trying to handle everything is now to try and check on the class website every few days to make sure that I am not late on assignments like I was at the beginning of this class. Going forward I would like to find a better way to get myself alerted about what is due, so that I am not in a constant state of anxiety about deadlines. Often when at the internship I am already so focused on EY business that school can slip my mind.

It is indeed hard to tend to both work and summer course assignments, and admittedly I have come close to not finishing assignments on time or forgetting a task. Work and training at Ogilvy move quickly, capturing most of my attention.

I can’t boast to be successful at balancing work and study (yet), but I am trying to adopt the following practices to get better at it:
– Set reminders: either through Gmail or any vendors one is familiar with.
– Observe and take notes: most of our assignments this summer is to record and report our accomplishments and difficulties, so it is best to have self-awareness in all situations. When the time comes to self-reflect, the work will have already been done.
– Keep tasks close: put your assignment tab on the bookmark bar, and put the most important tasks into notes that you will see every time you open your work laptop.

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To balance my schoolwork and my internship, I’m using different tools and tactics:
– I create a tracking table for all my tasks and information about both the class and my internship on OneNote. I update and check this tracking table every day.
– I schedule the time to do school work on my Google Calendar
– I also take an hour or so every week to plan out what I need to do for the following week
– Checking in regularly with my supervisor also helps me stay on top of my tasks at work

It hasn’t been easy to balance school and work but I am trying to make some improvements within my schedule. It is really simple to forget about something being due on a certain day. I strive to check the class website at least 3-4 times a week to make sure I am up to date on when assignments are due. I also mark the due dates in my Google Calendar to keep track. Finally, I set time aside on the weekend to work on assignments. Since sometimes I tend to rest on weekends, I also set time aside during the week after work to spend at least an hour or so on my computer doing work. Overall, it hasn’t been easy working, commuting, and doing school but I’m sure it will get better soon!

The first time experiencing working 40 hours full-time internship and having summer classes can be hard. I suggest schedule everything carefully, Since working and studying together, there will be many things that need to accomplish. what I do is that I create a reminder on my phone with all the deadlines for assignments at school. By that way, I never forgot or passed the deadlines. I keep updating that reminder every day before I go to bed and check to see if there will be anything I needed to do tomorrow. That is how I balance my schoolwork and internship.

Throughout the month of June, I was honestly struggling to balance a 40 hour work week with summer classes. Initially, I tried putting everything in the calendar app on my phone, but after struggling for a few weeks to balance it all, I decided to actually hang a dry erase calendar on the wall in my room. Now that it’s the beginning of July, over the weekend I took the time to write in all assignment due dates and important work dates for the month on the calendar. I usually check the class site throughout the week, but to make sure my calendar is always up to date, I’ve set a recurring reminder on Sundays to check this site and review my work schedule for the week. I’ve found that having something that I can look at every morning when I’m getting ready for the day helps me to always be one step ahead and not get overwhelmed with anxiety when important meetings/assignments are coming up.

It was difficult in the beginning finding a way to balance school and work. I was not sure how the class was going to be set up, but after a few weeks I put all the assignment due dates in my calendar on my phone and also wrote them down in my planner. If I have some free time at work or sometimes on my lunch break I will try to do some school work or at least check the class site because usually when the weekend comes around I just want to relax and not have to think about school or work. I have also been documenting everything I am doing like projects and meetings so that doing the class assignments will be easier for me in the long run.

I am handling doing both an internship and school work pretty well. To keep myself organized I make a list of everything I have to do at the start of my day. I include both school work and internship work. The list helps to remind me of the tasks needed to get done and keep me on track. For longer-term projects, I utilize sticky notes on my desktop, and a calendar to keep my mind thinking about how to schedule it into my daily tasks.

It is hard to maintain the balance since my primary responsibility in my job is project management, there are a million little things that I need to keep track of on top of school work, One approach I found very effective is create a to-do list every day and write it down on the whiteboard at my desk so I can see clearly what needs to be done and the progress of everything.

Since I have worked around 15 hours per week and taken 18 credits with a lot of extra curriculum activities in the school year, I have adjusted and learned how to keep together.

– Google Calendar is my friend. I put everything on my calendar and assign different colors to each kind of task. For example, classes and academic-related items are blue, work is yellow, activities are red… This method helps me track the hours allocated to each category. I also sync it to my iPhone to receive notifications 10 mins prior to the event. This acts like a secretary to remind me what I have for the day and helps me countless of time when I forgot my appointments.
– At the beginning of the day, I usually go over the tasks on email and Slack and double-check with my supervisor. If I finish the task before the workday, I report and sign off with my supervisor. If it is not finished, the process repeats in the morning.

Throughout my internship so far I’ve had a hard time balancing my internship and schoolwork for several reasons. I work 40 hours a week so it”s very time consuming for me. Also my laptop has broken one week into the internship so I’ve had a hard time having access online but when I do I give it my best to put in quality work.

Ways I plan on improving it in the future:
– Purchasing a new laptop ASAP
– Setting up a recurring timeslot every week in my busy schedule to get my online work done in a timely manner
– Taking Notes of new skills, lessons, and experience I’ve gained from the internship while I’m there.

Micromanaging time is necessary esp for me as I have two part-time jobs including my internship and full-time school work. Having the work-life balance is critical. I use tools like google calendar it helps me organize my tasks and meetings. I find the inbuilt checklist feature in google calendar very helpful. I also have solid time slots allocated for school work and internship work. This approach may seem siloed but it works well as I like to that both work and school differentiated.

Time management is a great skills to have especially when you want to develop a career with time for the job and time for ourselves. By managing my schedule with a calendar is how I use my time wisely, especially during a full-time internship.
Moreover, by keeping a task lists per day to remind myself the necessary things, chores, and tasks need to be accomplished. This way I could be more efficient with my time, and developing a healthy schedule for the internship and myself.

One of the most important skills that I have learned during the internship is to report efficiently to Excel. Although I had taken the Excel class at Temple, I did not have experience using Excel for efficient reporting in the real world. Working with Fox Run Brands, I have to report thousands of products on Amazon to Excel to keep track of the growth weekly. That was hectic and confusing at the first time. However, I got used to it and my Excel skills improved a lot.

I agree with Hung when he said Excel is an important skill to have. Excel is a tool my team uses constantly and the Temple excel course did prepare me, but just practicing in it has helped me improve tremendously. Also, my note taking skills have improved. I am constantly jotting things down in my notebook so I can refer back to them. This is important so I am not asking the same things over and over. The one person on my team started out as an intern just like me, so it has helped having her there because she has experienced what I am going through and can help answer any questions I have on how to succeed in this internship.

Excel is the most crucial skill in business. In my internship, I use excel to do some simple analysis and data cleaning for thousands of transactions. Without Excel, these processes would take a lot of time and effort.

Luckily, MIS and Fox courses prepare me well to do this internship, so I have a lot of knowledge in hand to do my job. However, one skill I want to work on is communication in project management. The internship focuses on manage launch campaigns, and we are almost always on a tight schedule. I took MIS 3535 and gained some experience with project managing, but I still have to practice and learn more techniques to effectively communicate with others.

I haven’t found a person that I definitely want on my site yet. Upper management like VPs and the C-suite would be nice.

I am not using a lot of Excel right now, but I definitely agree that it’s a crucial one to be proficient at.

In my position right now, the most important skill to have is asking for work. As an intern in a large company, your manager may not know what to give you or how you can fit into the team yet, so they might not trust you with much work. However, big and intimidating assignments are necessary for growth. So recently, I have been practicing approaching my manager, my colleagues, and higher-ups to explain what I am willing to learn and what I want to help with. When talking to the next person, it’s good to use your previous work as a pivot.

My goal as a moment is to find the person in my team with deep involvement in Marketing tech and a way to weave my role as a Strategist into the project he/she is working on. Our CEO and executives are very open, so I aim to gain the attention of at least one by mid-July.

One of the most important skills I have learned is how to be an effective communicator through text. In my previous jobs, my co-workers were in the same location as I was so If I had an issue it was easy to talk to them face to face. With consulting, my team can be in a few locations at once and text communication is the only way so I needed/need to make sure I am being effective and efficient with my words. For important people, I have yet to discover one sole person I want to be on my side. I definitely am striving to be an effective team member and ensuring that my co-workers are seeing me as a great asset so I am trying to keep them on my side.

Before my internship, I didn’t pay too much attention to email and I try to keep them as short as possible, sometimes to the point of sounding a bit blunt. When I started working, I discovered that email communication is very important because the majority of communication is done via email. My colleagues’ emails are not only short but also professional and warm, conveying not only the content but also the emotions.
A person who I want on my side is a coworker of mine who is a Temple MIS alum who sits in the desk nearby mine. He is politically savvy and he’s good at talking to people and networking, and I think his advice would be very valuable to me when I’m learning to navigate this environment.

I discovered that my role requires many soft skills like time management, people skills, interpreting instructions effectively are equally as important as hard technical skills taught at school. I met my colleague that interned with my role last summer. He is very resourceful since he had my role in the past and answers all the questions i have. He also provides guidance with I face challenges while working on my projects.

So far in my internship I’ve discovered that group communication is a very important skill. Communication is key to get things done right and in a timely manner, rather then just giving us tasks my manager actually explains to me why I’m doing the task and how it contributes to the companies success. I found that useful because it gives you a sense a purpose and teaches you the companies procedures rather then just aimlessly following tasks. A skill I didn’t have with was experience managing a database like footprints, so far in my internship I’ve managed to improve my skills in excel and footprints to help input information and monitor trends in the company. Personally there isn’t one particular person I’d like to have my side, I’d rather be friendly with everyone because you never know when you’re going to need someone.

Based on my experience, although having a strong technical skills is important. However, there are some soft skills or career skills that will definitely help me in the long run.
First, the mentality you bring to the team and the company. By having a mentality that you wish the approaches/suggestions will help the users regarding resolving their problems in the long run. Sometimes some approaches could fix user’s issues in a short span; however, by gradually fostering myself for having the mentality of resolving the issue in the long run, it will benefit the department in the long-run.
Second, by asking the right questions. With numerous projects ahead of me, there will be problems or questions that I simply have no answer to. By asking critical questions to the team or during the discussion, sometimes I can be more efficient in finding the solutions; moreover, bring a new perspective to the team during the discussion.

goPuff is a startup so it doesn’t have a formal training. I was totally clueless about the bathroom location and company events such as Monday breakfast, Friday Lunch, Friday briefing, happy hour and…work schedule. Eventually, I learned this thing by observing and asking my co-workers.

The first thing I had to find on my own was how to report my hours. Previously worked jobs where I just showed up clocked in and clocked out, now the hours are more nuanced and have to be applied in a particular way to be able to be billed to the client. A second thing I had to ask was how to stay organized with all the client info that comes in. This is my first consulting role so having to manage multiple clients is foreign to me since in the previous job I had the luxury of being able to focus on one problem at a time.

Ogilvy has a very comprehensive orientation program, so I mostly knew what to do. However, when it comes to the details on using the VOIP phones, tech policies, and getting to meeting rooms across a huge building, I had to rely on my manager, ask around, and use the interns’ group chat for troubleshooting. This is also the first internship in which I need to record my hours according to job codes, which determine the type of work and the clients attached. Because I have not worked in a large corporation before, I was a bit awkward in the first few days.
What is great is that despite the many policies in place and its age in the ad industry, Ogilvy is dynamic, open, team-oriented, and incredibly diverse.

I have an amazing boss who is very welcoming and helpful; he showed me pretty much everything I needed to know at Campbell’s and introduced me to everyone in the company. He tries to include me in a lot of meetings and events in the company, even events that only include very senior managers. I’m very grateful for these opportunities and I met so many great people.

There is just a small problem that since I’m introduced to many people every day, and Campbell is a huge company, I cannot remember everyone’s names, which frustrates me because I would like to greet people by their names. And I feel bad when some people remember my name, but I don’t remember theirs. I’m still looking for an effective way to remember people’s names, but in the meantime, I can use the company’s Workplace site, or look for names cc’ed in emails to refresh my memory.

QVC had a 2 day long orientation which was extremely helpful! I knew most work things but did have to figure out things like where do people usually eat lunch, what time does the cafeteria close and open. The company also has a very relaxed dress code so it took me a week or so to get used to how casual everyone is here. Navigating my way around the building proved to be a little difficult but it is always nice to have other interns around who are just as clueless as you are about where to go! I also had to figure out how to work my desk phone which I still am not 100% sure about.

Most challenging was probably learning about my team’s flow and specifically my manager’s. It took me some time to become more comfortable and study their personalities to make sure I deliver the best work in the best way. I have to say it has been wonderful working with so many amazing ladies!

My first week at Fox Run Brands was full of new things. Our company has two location: one in Ivyland, PA and one in Philadelphia. The one in Philadelphia is just for our marketing and eCommerce team. Therefore, they rent a small office inside a big building. My first day at the company, I thought the whole building was the company. I was kind of awkward when I asked my supervisor what department was next to our office. There were so many other new things like I got lost in the building the first time, or how to dress correctly. I remember my first day at work, I was the only one wearing formally.

Cigna held a two-day orientation at the headquarters in Connecticut for all interns, which was jam-packed with information and allowed us to start at our home offices feeling confident and prepared. Beyond that, there have been multiple training sessions for interns to attend together and we usually have to call in through WebEx from conference rooms. Little things like finding the conference rooms and connecting to the cameras/audio in the rooms have been issues, but no matter where I am in the office or even if I don’t know anyone on the floor, people are always willing to help when I ask. Knowing where to go for lunch and going out for coffee may have been intimidating the first couple days, but was made easier because associates in the program have showed all of the interns where people usually go and make sure we all feel included.

My first day at UHS, my supervisor showed me around the building, telling me where to get coffee and where the bathroom was. Fortunately the building is not that big, so it was not that difficult to get used to. One thing I was unsure about was what people do when it comes to lunch time. There is a small café on the first floor with tables, but I didn’t know if I should eat there or just at my cubicle. I learned by just observing that you can do whatever you feel comfortable with. Most of the days, me and the other interns meet together during lunch time and eat outside if it is nice out. This is good for us because we can get to know each other and help each other out with things we are unsure about.

Ernst and Young held a week-long orientation in Nashville for the Risk Advisory interns to teach us about the expectations of the firm and how to use some of the firm’s software, so that we could be better prepared for our first days in the office. With almost 400 interns at the conference we were spread out all throughout the hotel so finding where you were supposed to go could get a little confusing at times. But there was always lots of EY employees around to help guide us around. We received our firm issued laptops but I had issues with setting up connections to the EY network and the IT team was always very helpful. Going forward to next week I think I will face many challenges like trying to figure out where to report in the office and where the bathrooms are, or how to do some tasks in excel.

My first week at Freedom Mortgage was a great experience, the culture is friendly and supportive of new interns. Rather then just throwing us in a room and telling us what to do, our managers were very welcoming and helpful. They strive to make us feel comfortable and introduce us to upper management. They also do a great job at teaching us the companies values and the overall companies mission statement. So far I’ve met people from different departments and been to several meetings with upper management. Recently I’ve been working on excel spreadsheets and I learned how to manage a database called footprints. So far it’s been great and I look forward to learning more throughout the next

What I learned is that although SAP has very American/European corporate culture, they are very lenient. at first i thought it was very formal dress code with people wearing dress shirts and dress pants. After working here more i realized thats not the case. Jeans and polo shirts are a part of company culture too. This experience made me realise that the dress code is actually business casual and it is totally up on individual preference. There are also many SAP Employee benefits that the HR team misses to mention, i was able to learn about them on the corporate portal.

Since in the department, we use Remote access connection to manage some of our user requests. For instance, installing new software to our existing projects. I will have to get the IP address, user passwords, port number to connect to the user’s machine. At first, to finish a task cause a great discomfort since I need to acquire all of these information, but gradually through experience am getting more efficient in finishing the tasks. However, there are still difficulties in acquiring the information sometime.

I’m working at Campbell Soup Company this summer and my position is Marketing and R&D IT Services Assistant.

I’ll be suporting R&D IT team and Marketing IT team with mainly IT project management, along with operational tasks, insights development, research, and day-to-day execution in support of deliverables required for these IT service areas.

I’m working with goPuff as a Territory Growth Analyst intern. This internship focuses on project management of new launch locations, from the first step – searching for the location to the last one – the new location launch going live and operating. Right now, I’m evaluating the delivery zones at locations that are launched to improve and adjust the service parameter.

I am interning at Universal Health Services as an Application Analyst for the Information Systems Laboratory team. I will be working with the pathology team to support the implementation of UHS clinical and business applications at their Acute Care hospitals. That includes providing end user support, application troubleshooting, and assisting in performing routine system maintenance and builds.

I am working at The Ogilvy Group, a full-service marketing agency in NYC, as a Strategy Intern in Ogilvy’s Social Labs. My responsibilities include:
– Supporting senior analysts’ strategic recommendations to clients by crafting data-backed reports
– Exploring data from syndicated sources for insights that can inform strategic planning
– Conducting functions of Social Listening (aggregating and monitoring digital conversations on social platforms)
– Working towards a project and pitch at the end of the internship with a view to serve an actual client need
– Resolving issues as they appear in the context of Ogilvy’s dynamic agency-client relationships

Hi everyone! This summer I will be interning in Center City Philadelphia at Cigna. My internship is within the Technology Early Career Development Program (TECDP) and I will be working as a Production Support Systems Analyst in Group IT. In this role, I will be learning how to utilize various applications by understanding their different access levels. I’ll be responding to tickets to ensure people’s problems get fixed and that they have access to the applications they need to perform their jobs. TECDP interns also have a summer “innovation project”, in which I will be serving as my group’s project manager, but because Cigna is switching to a more agile work environment I will be known as the product owner. My responsibilities will consist of being the point of contact for stakeholders, prioritizing their wants/needs, and communicating these needs with my team.

During this summer I will be interning for RSM, a tax, audit, and consulting firm. My role during the summer will be as a Technology and Management consulting intern for Oracle’s ERP system called NetSuite. My tasks will include assisting in the role out NetSuite, and ensure client data is transferred over smoothly to the new system. Along with my main role as a consultant, I will participating in a fundraising service team project where we are tasked to raise money for RSM’s Birdies Fore Love.

Hi everyone! I will be working with SAP at the North American Headquarters in Newtown Square PA. My role over summer is Go for Growth Manager for SAP Partners.
I will be in charge of the following:
• Building and designing internal web-based knowledge management system for SAP Partners (SAP Jam)
• Assist to create a new collaboration platform for the Partners and SAP concentrated towards Financial Services Market unit.
• Setup and worked in an agile environment and constantly adapted to new program directions and goals for partners.
• Assisted Financial Services market unit by streamlining organization and aligning growth tracking with the Partner Programs.

Hello everyone! I will be working at Ernst and Young in Center City this summer in the Risk Advisory Program (RAP). I will be working with a team to interview and evaluate clients processes examining them to asses any potential IT or process risks. I will help in designing potential solutions and designing how we could implement them successfully. While also ensuring that process are in compliance with governing laws.

Hi Everyone-
My name is Eli and I will be working as an IT Intern for Freedom Mortgage.
I will be working on several projects in the Service Management Office Departments

My responsibilities consist of:

– Doing weekly/monthly IT Service Management analysis of incoming tickets from a wide variety of departments
– Improving the Database to make sure the incoming data is as accurate as possible
– Examining the life cycle of recurrent incidents and common issues that arise throughout the ticketing process
– Converting the data onto graphs, powerpoints, and presentations to show management where there is room of improvement
– Working with other parts of the service management office onto implementing new processes and improving process flows

Name: Chung Han Tu

This summer I will be working at the Union League of Philadelphia. I will be working at the IT department as an Project Management Associate.
My responsibilities include the following:
1. Creating documentation on our new projects which includes the scope of the project, the stakeholders, the responsibilities among the team, the budget of the project and the requirements of each task.

2.. Managing the timeline of the projects, making sure the project’s tasks are up to the planned timeline. If the tasks exceed the project’s timeline make necessary changes to our future tasks or request more resources to diminish the process.

3. Based on users requests, we brainstorm project’s idea and create solutions or approaches to fulfill users requests.

4. Send user change request form for users who request a change or add-on to our existing or future projects

My experience this past 12 months at Subaru of America has been an eye-opening opportunity. I had the chance to work with many bright individuals who taught me a variety of skills. Gaining so much knowledge in the project management field has helped me identify a potential career opportunity that I could follow in the future. Being part of a team that implemented a Project Portfolio Suite such as ServiceNow will be a useful tool in my future job search. The connections I have built here have also helped me lead to some great interviews with other companies. I have chosen not to continue my career at Subaru and currently in the process of interviewing and looking for my new opportunity.

My experience was a good experience. I got to see and understand the way that Cigna works and meet tons of people. I worked in the operations division at Cigna. I will not be staying on. Instead, I will be working within their sales department this coming June.

I’ve learned a lot since starting this position and enjoyed the challenge of taking on the quality role to further grow my skills. I’m certain I’ll stay here a while but my ambition will point me towards positions in people leader roles. Hopefully by the end of this year I’ll have completed my degree and have had opportunities to move up.

My experience at Independence Blue Cross was amazing because I discovered what I want to do, which is project management. I learned a lot about portfolio management and the techologies involved. I have been talking to the managers about staying at Independence full time as a project coordinator. However, they haven’t got back to me yet because they mainly hire contact workers and project coordinators are new the the department. In the meantime, I have been applying at other places just as a back up.

My experience with Fox Run Brands is really beneficial. I have learned more about the customer goods and e-commerce industry. One of the most exciting thing is that I have the chance to learn about Amazon advertising. I have been analyzing and creating different ads on both Amazon Vendor Central and Seller Central. I will continue working with the company throughout the summer.

I really enjoyed my experience at PwC! I will be returning in September to work in the same group, which has now joined with a data analytics group. I am really excited to get more experience in the field and work with a great team.

My experience with Liberty Mutal as a whole was positive, but I did not have the best experience with my team. I learned a lot about internal IT audit, but my next step will be working at Ernst and Young in their Risk Advisory practice! My time at Liberty will help me greatly at my full-time job because I will be auditing work that is very similar to the work I completed last summer (EY is actually Liberty’s external auditor). Even though I had a very difficult time at my internship, I am appreciative of the lessons that I learned and the value that was provided to me.

My experience at Protiviti was entirely positive because I was doing something that I enjoy, I was challenged and never stopped learning. I learned a lot about security consulting and what sort of projects I might be on in the future. At Protiviti I can go two routes in security: I can become a penetration tester ( what I ultimately want to do) and a security consultant (what I’m starting as). The security consultant is not as hands-on as a penetration tester, but still get a fair share of technical work. I’m excited to return in September to start full-time in their Security and Privacy practice.

I had a great experience interning at PwC. I got to really experience what it will be like to work as a full time associate. Also, I made a lot of connections which will be good for me in my career. I did receive a full time offer to work in Process Assurance. I accepted the offer and will be starting in August 2018.

My experience at the Federal Reserve was awesome. Made good friends with many of my co-workers, learned a ton, and have moved on to take a full time position at the FED starting in June. I’ll be working as a systems engineer on research tools and data infrastructure, so I’m excited to see where this takes me!

The past few months at Aramark have been a great experience. It allowed me to see if my passion for data in the classroom, translates to the work place, before I graduated. My team coached me and motivated me throughout the entire experience. Although I will not be staying with Aramark, I will be joining The Walt Disney Company in June as an Omni-Channel Analyst on their Consumer Insights & Analytics team, supporting Walt Disney World. This internship showed me that I want to pursue a career in data, before it was too late.

My experience at Tonic was great, I made connections that I will keep throughout my entire career. I was not really sure what to expect going into the internship but I had a learned a lot throughout my entire experience and it really showed me what I wanted to do to start my career. I stayed on part time in the fall semester but then stopped working there after the semester.

My experience at Research For Action was excellent. As a Research Intern, I have learnt a great deal from this internship. Along with solid coding skills, I have also immensely developed my time management skills, both of which will benefit me in the long run. Most importantly, I have made valuable connection through this internship which will be very useful for me in the future. Although I am not planning to continue the internship through the summer, I do plan to work for the company during the following school year.

My experience at SAP was amazing. I learned so many tangible skills and intangible skills. I really like the SAP corporate culture and am trying to land a full time offer. One of the best part about working at SAP that I did not mention before is their food! They have many dinning options with amazing chefs that cook delicious food. Taco Tuesdays are my fave! I was able to get a full time offer for for the summer about a different project. Planning on having it turned into a full time offer!

My experience at Union League has been great. I got to understand the business process of hospitality management, and understand the operational concept of the organization. Throughout the entire internship experience the CTO managed to give me real projects to handle which makes me gain significant experience in project management. During this summer I will continue working for the company with a different job function and title.