When I came into Millennium Personnel looking for a job, never in a million years did I expect the manager to offer me an internship opportunity. I accepted this opportunity for many reasons. One of them being that I have close to no experience in office work and that alone will make it almost impossible for me to find a job anywhere. I appreciated Lanie, the manager, tremendously at the moment because she was able to overlook my lack of experience and focus on my potential instead. From this internship I plan to take a lot with me to my next job. I will be able to gain the experience necessary for me to get that job that I worked so hard for in school. It will be a short experience level but it is still more than what I had before getting the internship. With working my hardest and showing Lanie and Stephanie that I am a reliable and responsible worker, I am also ensuring my reference for my next job so that they can explain to my next employer how I am as a worker. Also, working side by side to them, I will learn the tricks of the trade because of how experienced they are. It’s always a pleasure to work next to two individuals that will only help you gain knowledge and experience.

In this internship, I hope to learn all that I will be unable to learn on my own. For example, I only knew about Quickbooks because of some of the jobs that I wanted to apply for required knowledge on it. But now, little by little, I am learning how to work with it and I will be able to tell my next employer that I’m not an expert on it but that I know the basics and that I am a fast learner. With the mini meetings that Lanie has us do from time to time, I will learn exactly what to say and what to do with certain situation because of the activity she calls the ‘hot seat’. Those activity and meetings are to prepare me and the other interns for day to day situations that can potentially happen in the work place. Also, because of her meetings, I was able to get over my fear of interviews a bit more. This helps me a lot, due to my interview anxiety that I have. What also help me are the cold callings. This helps with my fear of talking to other people.

This internship has been the best thing that I could have happened to me right now. I’m unemployed and I could have been home doing nothing but instead I am working on my experience with wonderful people.