Tag Archives: career goals
You Are What You Think
As the famous Henry Ford put it, âWhether you think you can or you think you canât â youâre right.â In so few words, this quote illuminates the idea that life isnât about whether you can or canât achieve your goals and find success. The key is to focus on whether you âthinkâ you can.
This mantra speaks on many levels about the true power of the human mind and the intentions of everyday thought. Throughout our young-adult lives, the anxiety and frantic thoughts about the future overwhelm our mental space and cloud our sense of confidence and purpose. Expectations rise with each year of our educational experience, and we may stumble along crossroads of emotional tolls and high-stake decisions. We ask ourselves questions surrounding the future of our career, health, love, and family. Every day, we strive for a better understanding of our personal goals and how to become …
Finding Yourself beyond the Classroom
If I were given the chance to be everything I wanted to before I leave this Earth?
I wouldnât mind being on the Today Show, or perhaps Late Night with Jordan Patterson. I would want to design BMWâs next flagship sedan and also be the leading architect in designing the perfect addition to Indyâs skyline. I would write and produce music for talented artists that would win me a record number of Grammy awards. Oh, and voice acting in a Pixar film would be awesome!
One might see why the question âWhere do you see yourself in 10 years?â poses a challenge to a guy like me with many ambitions. I have a hunch that I am not alone. When giving campus tours at Butler University, I always ask the question to perspective students, âHow many of you know what you want to do with your life?â
Of course, …
The Hard-Hitting Truth About Internships
This is a guest blog by Samantha Morrison. She is a student at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and summer intern at USA Football.
I had the pleasure of working for a company called USA Football this past summer. USA Football is the national governing body of youth football in the United States. They strive to help make the game better and safer for those who play, coach, officiate, and organize football. This company is constantly providing new resources for the game, as well as perfecting drills to promote safer game practices such as heads up tackling. I know that more recently concussions have become a hot topic, so USA Football has put a major emphasis on concussion awareness.
I love what USA Football does and I love sports, so I was super excited when I found out I would be working as a Digital Sales Intern for them this summer. My main …
Intern Yesterday, Employee Today
This is a guest blog written by Drew Van De Wielle of. Drew graduated from Ball State University in December 2011, with a B.S. in Public History/Business Administration & Marketing. He worked as an intern at the Museum from January through May. He is a 2007 graduate of St. Josephâs High School in South Bend, and has also worked at United Beverage Distribution Company. Drew enjoys learning about South Bendâs rich industrial heritage and playing on a softball team for Barnabyâs.
Hello my name is Drew Van De Wielle South Bend native and Curator at the Studebaker National Museum. Before being hired for the full-time position of Curator, I was an intern from January through April.
My internship was a well-rounded experience. I was originally hired to gain experience with handling museum collections and to get an idea of how a successful small museum is run on a day-to-day …
Lessons Learned as a 24-Year-Old Intern
Ali Turner is a professional writer and career blogger. She’s also the managing editor of Campuses to Careers, a blog that helps young people make informed career and education decisions. Topics covered on the blog include careers for shy people and how to follow up on a job application.
I am now proud to say that I was a 24-year-old intern. But I didn’t always feel that way. After graduation and struggling to find job prospects in this dismal economy, I decided to take an unpaid internship at an international non-profit. I knew that I needed more experience, and I decided that an internship related to public relations, the field I wanted to get into, was better than something completely random.
My admission to being a post-graduate intern was met with a little shock and even some snickering and eye-rolling. This negativity mostly (but not always) came from members of the older …
Your internship is only a couple weeks awayâŠAre you ready??
An interesting article came across my desk recently â 10 Ways to be a Terrible Intern. So this got me thinking; you worked really hard last year, kept up your grades, scored a great internship, and passed your finals. So right now are you just sitting around and waiting for this rock-star internship experience to start in June? How many of you are taking the time to get ready for your internship? Now I know that you might be thinking that the whole reason you got the internship is so that YOU can learn from US, and thatâs right! But Iâm a firm believer that you will get more than any of your classmates out of an internship if you go in from day one with the right attitude, objectives, and research.
So the article above is a good starting place, and full of pretty obvious âdo-notâsâ for any intern. …