Career Development Seminar
This has been a great success with previous interns. The PowerPoint presentation is located in the P-Drive:
Project Vote Smart>Internship Materials
The seminar is a voluntary event (for interns not scheduled to be working at the time you set it up) and will count toward an intern's overall hours. The seminar lasts about 1 hour and is a chance for interns to see job searching, interviews, and performances from an employer's viewpoint. Encourage participation, questions, and personal stories. This may be the first, or only, opportunity many of these interns will have to hear from someone near to their age and in a supervisory position giving them real-life advice.
The presentation is broken into three main parts:
- The resume and cover letter;
- The interview; and
- The internship/job.
You will not review resumes or conduct mock interviews during this seminar, but you should inform interns of the opportunity to ask a staff member to do this. Make sure to always be honest and fair in giving critiques of someone's resume. As the Internship Coordinator you will see 100s of resumes each year and are best suited to pointing out glaring, or subtle, issues and should help interns at the end of their successful time with PVS to put their best foot forward.
