Using E-Student OA during an Internship

E-Individual can help students participating in government, business, or industry internship experiences gain deeper self-awareness of their skills and problem-solving abilities by guiding them through reflections related to their internship experiences. These reflections aim to enhance your metacognitive skills, which refer to your awareness and understanding of your own cognitive processes. This can lead to improved learning and problem-solving abilities.

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Potential Mentors

• Your internship supervisor
• The internship coordinator on your college campus
• A more senior colleague at the company

Example Prompts

Pre-Internship

• What are you looking forward to the most with this internship?
• What are your current academic and work/career plans? How does this internship fit in with those?
• If you encounter problems during your internship, how might you seek advice from others and where might you go for that advice?

Mid-Internship

• Describe one accomplishment you have experienced thus far in your internship.
• What sorts of challenges, major or minor, have you encountered in your internship, and what strategies have you used to work through them?

Post-Internship

• Overall, how did your internship go (e.g., highly successful to not very successful)?
• What adaptations did you make during your internship? Are you satisfied with the adjustments you made?
• How did you explore career and/or employment opportunities as part of your internship?