After I accepted the internship at Brooklyn College, we scheduled a meeting on Tuesday. At the meeting, I got to know the other members of the team. The team consists of six people, and five interns in this team. After we introduced each other, in this team two members had joined the team earlier, and they had already started their own work. Me and two other interns joined relatively late. I have begun to look forward to the work I am responsible for in this internship, and I want to do my best in this internship.
The meeting was short, about half an hour. But I learned about the internship and the team. The specific internship schedule and the more information about the work will be known next week. My main task this week is to study Brooklyn College Visual Identity guidelines.
After the interview, I received internship offers from both Brooklyn College and NYPIRG on the Monday of the second week. I was honored to get their internship opportunity. After a period of consideration, I finally chose to accept the invitation from Brooklyn College. Both internship opportunities are valuable, and I believe both internships can give me different and valuable experiences. But interning at Brooklyn College, I was able to work 15 hours a week and complete my internship before the end of the semester.
Turning down the internship opportunity at NYPIRG made me feel guilty, feeling that I had wasted the interviewer’s time, trust and opportunity. This reminds me of the internship opportunities I applied for before, some of which did not reply at the beginning, and some of which did not reply halfway. That’s supposed to be a rejection, and I think that’s what happens when you’re looking for a job. Work and I are a two-way choice, the company will choose a better candidate, and I can choose the company I am interested in. In the future, I may also encounter a lot of rejection in the process of finding a job. I hope that when this situation comes, I can keep a good attitude until I get the job I want.
I attended Omnicom Health Group’s Info Session at the school on Feb. 29th from 12-1 p.m. I learned some basics about Omnicom Health Group’s customers, employees and some work during a presentation by Omnicom Health Group’s HR. I was also surprised that Omnicom Health Group has more than 200 agencies and also has more than 5000 employees. And there are also some agencies that are specialized in serving the employees and providing a healthy and happy working environment.
I gained a lot from the presentation, about their work, some career and internship opportunities, etc. I learned a lot about their work, both illustration and graphic design. Especially the 3 illustrations by X genentech, X genentech illustrations are about cancer. The meaning is that no matter what kind of person it is, no matter what age, skin, shape, cancer doesn’t discriminate. hr will also talk about how they accomplished this work, their first step was to come up with 50 ideas and then they went through a screening process before choosing a final idea. I was surprised because 50 ideas is a lot and choosing one from that many is more work than I can imagine. I learned that teamwork is important, and in this series of illustrations, every detail was done by hand. The illustrations, fonts, etc. were all handmade by the team. I love that, a team moving forward together for the sake of the work. It also worries me a bit because I’m not that skilled at teamwork yet.
Then there are some e-books that will provide entertainment for the child who is so unfortunate to be sick at Christmas or the holidays and in having to spend the holidays in the hospital. I remember they said we could watch them for free on the website. I love the care and responsibility that Omnicom Health Group puts into their patients. And there are also sites about menstruation and some experiences with an illustrator.
There is also an interesting daily life video about Omnicom Health Group. The video shows a day in the life of an employee by using modeling to show the employee and the interior of the company. Inside the company the viewer can see the internal structure of the company, and on the walls there are some big screens showing some real advertisements, both vertical and horizontal. There were also interactions between the employees, I remember working, chatting and dancing. hr said that this video could be a better way to introduce the company to the customers. I think so too, because the video presentation is also the interesting way to introduce the company than the verbal narration.
I learned a lot from this Omnicom Health Group presentation, basic information about a big company, some of the works and especially some of the process of X genentech illustration. Applying for their summer internships is also easy and can be done on their website.
When I received the interview notice, I was very excited and anxious. I had two interviews within one week, one at NYPIRG on Thursday and one at Brooklyn College on Friday. I had no idea what questions the interviewer would ask or how my performance would be.
On the day of my interview with TEAOC, I did not receive any interview notification, either by phone or email. I later contacted them via email but no reply.
At the NYPIRG interview on Thursday, Steve was the interviewer. I went to their chapter meeting to learn about the problems they are actively solving and some of their activities. At the chapter meeting, the interviewer Steve introduced their members to me, and I also briefly introduced myself. I also saw Steve’s office later. Overall, the interview was short. But I learned more about NYPIRG.
During the interview at Brooklyn College on Friday, Isana was my interviewer. I learned more about the tasks and responsibilities of this internship position here at Isana, and how interns work individually and in teams, depending on the project. I felt very at ease during the interview with her, and she also gave me some advice on my resume. The resumes I sent were all PNG or JPG. She suggested that I use PFD so that people could click the portfolio link on the resume and go directly to the website when people are looking at the resume. During the interviews with NYPIRG and Brooklyn College, I got a lot of information from the interviewers about the internship content. I felt very relaxed and happy during the interview, although I was still a little nervous.
After completing my resume and portfolio, I started applying for internships. My target internship position is graphic design and illustration.
First, I searched for my target internship position on Handshake and Linkedin. COMD Communication Design Internship Coordination Site Since most internship applications have due, so I didn’t focus too much on here. Handshake has more internships than LinkedIn, but most of them start in the summer, and most of the spring internship applications have ended. The internship positions are limited because it is too late to apply for most internships in the spring. I can only try to apply for everything I can.
I searched for internship positions and observed internship times. Sometimes the internship mode is also a problem, remote, in person, and hybrid. Each internship has a different round-trip time, company address, internship mode, internship time, internship content, etc. But now I generally look at the time and address, and I want an internship in spring and in New York.
After finding two internships, I sent them an email on the 28th. I received a reply from TEAOC on March 4, but there was no reply from the other internship. Later, I followed the professor’s advice and continued to look for internship opportunities before I got the offer. A classmate said in class before that although the internship application period has passed, Brooklyn College is still recruiting people. The professor also hopes that students who have not yet found an internship can give it a try. So I found emails from Brooklyn College and NYPIRG on the COMD Communication Design Internship Coordination Site and submitted an internship application to them. We were all lucky enough to get their response the next day, and the interview times were quickly confirmed, both on Thursday and Friday in the same week.
This semester, I am looking forward to the graphic design or illustration internship. I think these two types of internships are what I like and want to do now, and they can help me become familiar with the work process and gain some helpful experience before graduation.
Before applying for an internship, my most important task was to complete my resume and portfolio. I need a logo, work experience and some of my professional skills on my resume. In the portfolio, I first have to organize the project I have completed in the classroom in the past. I chose Adobe portfolio to display my project, because my projects are produced using Adobe software, and I also use Adobe software in design in my job after graduation.In the process of completing the resume, the first big question was the LOGO. For my logo I used the first letter of my first name and last name. I like cats very much, when I was a child, my family had a cat. It brought me not only happiness, but also love and responsibility. I also hope to have a cat family again in the future, so I drew a cat using W and M. The next step is to summarize my skills, personal information and work experience.
Organizing a portfolio is relatively simple for me, because I have been organizing projects in the previous classes. I used Adobe Portfolio because it is free with the Adobe subscription. It is also easy to use, although it has many limitations but it is enough for me now.
