About Employment Contracts

By Gaberielle Henderson

This may not have come up during my internship but during my internship class went over employment contracts and non-disclosure agreement. This are extremely important things to know these contracts are what every business uses to hire someone. The purposes of these contracts are for one the be a set of guidelines for the employee and the company. And the latter is to a contract that keeps the company secrets and sensitive informations is given out. The employment contract stats what benefits and pay the employee will receive but as well as the responsibilities their are expected to manage. As well the terms the agree to when working for the company in question sometimes even losing certain rights when joined to the company.

I learn that this contracts should be read through very careful you need to know what you are signing and what you are agreeing to. From the employment contract you have to know what benefits you receive and what conditions that have to be met for you to hold the job down. Most company have a 90 day probation where you can be fired for not meeting up with the conditions. And as for the non-disclosure agreement you need to know you can’t release any information about the company or the people in it that wasn’t public knowledge. Meaning if it not on the company official sites you can’t say word about anything you are given or seen.

Managing Workflow

By Andrew Neel

Through my internship I always found myself thinking how am I going to scheduling to get everything done for my school work and internship work. At first my thought process was to try and finish all my school work as soon as possible. And give myself all the time to focus down on my internship work to make the best possible. But this ended up making me feel burnout and sluggish. when it came to reaching the end of my work and lead me to procrastinate in some areas of my school later down the line. And now i’m find myself working harder to make up for that lost time up until recently.

A new strategy I use now is I take my time in the morning and afternoon and get the foundation of my work done. Such doing research or starting and half way completing big projects and light work that can be taken care easily. And I take the rest of the day to relax and organize myself and then at night I pick back up my work and go to bed around four in the morning. It may not be the most health plan but this way has help m turn out more work and deal with my stress. So far i’m on top of all of my classes my only worry is how my senior project will turn out.

First Assignment

Software produced Audio and Translation
By Jason Goodman

During my first week as an intern for my company I was tasked with design application for their scholarship program. This being my first real assignment I put at the top of my list and began to work on it right away. At first I made the mistake of assuming with some of the directions I was given. The client wanted me to replace the black and gold colors of the application as well as the the square elements used in the design. Where I made my assumption was that the client only wanted the first three pages that had the square elements redesign. After I sent what I had in and asked if they wanted to make any changes I was told they wanted the entire application redesign. Thankfully this was still early on in the week where I still had plenty of time. to go back and redo the application.

This experience taught me two lessons starting with if I don’t fully understand the instructions i’m given I should speak up immediately get it clarified. This not only save me time from learning later on I did something wrong and needing to go back and change it. I get the assignment right the first this also helps my client had I waited later to do the assignment and this happened. The client would either have to pushed back the date of when they wanted to send out this application or try and make a make shift application that won’t get all the information they need. Not only wasting the company time but making it harder for those applying to receive aid from the company. To recap I learn speaking up and clarifying what i don’t understand needs to be done as soon as possible and communication is key if I didn’t take the time to send the assignment in earlier and learned of my mistake I wouldn’t have gotten the chance to fix it.