Student Internship Success (Student's Guide)

The Student Internship Success Workbook, 3rd edition - Student's Guide is a time- and energy-saving 16-week career readiness workbook that maximizes the personal and professional development of student interns and student employees.

The Student Internship Success Workbook, 3rd edition is intended to provide students with new content to grow their capacities as a student and professional in order to strengthen their practice of habits that will provide the foundation for their success in the years to come.

The Student Internship Success Workbook, 3rd edition is for college student interns and student employees. This workbook provides lessons and reflection activities centered on:

• Personal Foundations
• Professionalism
• Communication Skills
• Career Readiness

Weekly lessons and activities include these topics and more:

• Professionalism and work ethic
• Working with people across differences
• Receiving and processing feedback
• Networking
• Learning, personality, and communication styles
• Building and maintaining professional relationships

This workbook is a comprehensive resource for student interns and particularly beneficial for those enrolled in college success programs to support historically underrepresented students, such as TRiO, GEAR UP, Educational Opportunity Programs, among others.

The 3rd edition (2020) includes the following new and expanded content:

• Updated 2019 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) 8 Career Readiness Competencies
• Expanded reflection and engagement activities regarding these Career Readiness Competencies
• Additional pre-internship activities to deepen the student intern's foundations of self-awareness, intention-setting, and managing expectations,
• Additional post-internship activities to maximize the student's learning and reflection they engaged in throughout their internship
• Weekly career readiness educational content and activities so that the student intern is engaging in one major area of career readiness throughout a week's time
• Weekly check-in meeting template to help student interns prepare for and to help guide their meeting discussions with supervisors
• Quarterly check-in and reflection activity to help the student capture ongoing projects, tasks, and accomplishments
• Additional resources and tips throughout the workbook to deepen student learning and growth