How to Intern Successfully: Insights & Actions to Optimize Your Experience

by Robert J. Khoury, John Selby

These days if you’re interested in a corporate career, interning is probably how you're expected to spend your college or grad school summers. But – Is interning actually for you? And if so, how can you optimize the experience?

How To Intern Successfully aims to help you be informed and confident as you explore and then successfully complete your internship.

Beginning with self-reflection to boost your clarity of intent and gain the peace of mind necessary for an extraordinary internship, each chapter’s theme aims toward helping you wake up to your deeper sense of career intent. The author, who’s the CEO of a corporate advisory and consulting firm, shares his personal experiences as a seasoned intern mentor, adding valuable hands-on guidance and insights.

Several chapters assist you in focusing on specific elements of a winning internship, including job hunting, preparing for internship interviews, and collaborating with mentors and fellow interns. Former interns share their perspectives – and throughout the book you consider often-overlooked aspects of preparing for and successfully winning the intern game.

The intern experience from start to finish can be either an anxious stressful unsatisfying bore or a most wonderfully stimulating and rewarding opportunity. This book serves as a career guide to make sure you are empowered in each step of the intern process, as you move with grace, ease and dignity through a summer or semester of rapid learning and stimulating discoveries.

Interning in the right spirit can provide a unique opportunity for you to wake up to your true emerging self. Your college and grad school years are all about beginning to discover who you actually are and what gives you true satisfaction. Interning can strongly nurture this self-discovery and open your eyes to your higher professional potential.

To sum, reading this book will provide you with a first taste of what an intern experience might offer you. And you’ll learn more about how you as an intern can be of high value to your corporate host.

How To Intern Successfully will be your trusted guide as you venture out into the business world, finesse your intern experience, and advance step by step in your growth and development. You deserve it!

232 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2021

Reviews

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

I met Rob at our high school Chowder Day Alumni Art Show. We talked about art, college, professional and life experiences. Rob spoke about his experiences at Princeton and Duke. I shared some of my experiences at Colby and Brown. A few years later, Rob told me about his internship book. I found that we shared similar experiences in college and an interest in helping college/university students. Rob has carried the ball far down the field in life. I believe this book will help college students, anyone seeking an internship and those trying to figure out where they fit into the game of life. It is important that you don't get discouraged and continue to play the game. We all make mistakes. Play the Game is our high school motto. Internships help college students learn the rules of the game. Rob talks about the importance of listening and not acting impulsively. Honesty and goal setting needs to be a priority. Rob spoke about the importance of mentorship as well. There is a wide range of internship opportunities. Finding the right fit is key. Some great quotes in this book as well. Prestigious corporations such as Goldman Sachs and McKinsey hire Rob's interns. I highly recommend this book.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the perfect book for new interns around the world.