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How can the LSE Internship Programme help your career?

How can the LSE Internship Programme help your career?. Frances Meegan LSE Careers Service. How the LSE Internship Programme can help your career. Help you develop better self-awareness - doing rather than (just) thinking & reading - what you enjoy/dislike

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How can the LSE Internship Programme help your career?

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  1. How can the LSE Internship Programme help your career? Frances Meegan LSE Careers Service

  2. How the LSE Internship Programme can help your career • Help you develop better self-awareness - doing rather than (just) thinking & reading - what you enjoy/dislike - what you are good at/may need to work at • Develop additional transferable skills • Add evidence to your CV of: - time management - working outside your comfort zone - motivation and commitment • Keep you in touch with the world of work outside of academia

  3. Potential Transferable Skills • Verbal Communication • Relationship building • Working with users • Problem-solving • Working with others • Networking • Ability to apply learning • Time management and organisation • Research &/or writing in an applied &/or operational context

  4. Other potential benefits • Insight into jobs in your field/s of interest • Chance to enhance academic learning through application to work situations • Confidence building(directly and indirectly) • Insight into the differences and similarities between research, writing, presentation in an academic institution and outside

  5. How might this look like on your CV? Dec 2005-April 2006 LLM Communications, London, UK Strategic communications consultancy, specialising in public affairs Intern • Reviewed the government’s white paper on Education and produced a short briefing paper for clients on the main points • Undertook research (using web, phone and meetings) to identify important additional contacts for a client in the construction sector and designed a contact programme to action this • Contributed, as part of a team of 3, to the development a media communications campaign for an NGO, by analysing and summarising relevant media coverage during the previous 12 months • Participated as an observer in a media training workshop for senior NGO managers

  6. Keep a record of……. • What you do • Your impact and results you achieve • What you learn about yourself • Who you meet • If you need help communicating this book a careers appointment www.lse.ac.uk/careers LSE Careers Service, 6th Floor, Tower 3

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