Week 1 of Internship Experience

Week 1 of Internship Experience

In the unit 1 seminar we talked about the unit 1 discussion and how we all are going to have fears and anxiety. The Professor talked about how this will be a unique experience for us and how it’s a scary class but it will be good for us. He talked about how they are taking away the right to tell us what to read, what to do, what to writ and etc. We talked about how you’re going to need to be a leader, deal with the organization whether it’s a manager or employee. There are special skills that are needed. You have to have a positive mind set to succeed in this course. we talked about how we need to make sure we know how to work the organization. We are in control of the position we are given by our leadership. We talked about how we are graded on the practical side. We are graded on what we are doing on the academic side. It’s a learning experience for us to figure out how to connect practice to theory. We talked about how it’s easy to do 40 hours a week for our organization buts lose track of the academic side of the process. We have to learn what we want to learn and experience in this organization. We also talked about the different outcomes we are going to cover. We need to figure out how what we have learned so far affects us in the real world. We need to do field research if it’s not our position but have questions. We need to talk to leadership, management or etc. if we have questions. For our own privacy how do the organization manage our W-9 forums and etc. What do they do with those forums?  We need to understand what the difference is between a process and a business. A process is related to a system and procedure is related to a policy. At the end of the course we have to identify one business process and one business procedure. Explain each one, fix anything that needs to fixed. Its experimental learning because in the real world no one tells you how to fix something within your business, they not show how to do anything. You learn as you go on and grow from what you are doing. Everyone is going to have different learning experiences based upon their job title. You want to observe and experience things within the organization and be able to write about them. You need to evaluate how your organization is employing ethics.