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How can the LSE Internship

Programme help your career?

Frances Meegan

LSE Careers Service

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How the LSE Internship Programme can help your career

• Help you develop better self-awareness- doing rather than (just) thinking & reading- what you enjoy/dislike - what you are good at/may need to work at

• Develop additional transferable skills• Add evidence to your CV of:

- time management- working outside your comfort zone- motivation and commitment

• Keep you in touch with the world of work outside of academia

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Potential Transferable Skills

• Verbal Communication• Relationship building • Working with users • Problem-solving• Working with others• Networking• Ability to apply learning • Time management and organisation • Research &/or writing in an applied &/or operational

context

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Other potential benefits

• Insight into jobs in your field/s of interest• Chance to enhance academic learning

through application to work situations• Confidence building(directly and indirectly)• Insight into the differences and similarities

between research, writing, presentation in

an academic institution and outside

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How might this look like on your CV?Dec 2005-April 2006 LLM Communications, London, UKStrategic communications consultancy, specialising in public affairs Intern• Reviewed the government’s white paper on Education and

produced a short briefing paper for clients on the main points• Undertook research (using web, phone and meetings) to identify

important additional contacts for a client in the construction sector and designed a contact programme to action this

• Contributed, as part of a team of 3, to the development a media communications campaign for an NGO, by analysing and summarising relevant media coverage during the previous 12 months

• Participated as an observer in a media training workshopfor senior NGO managers

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Keep a record of…….

• What you do • Your impact and results you achieve• What you learn about yourself• Who you meet • If you need help communicating this book a

careers appointment www.lse.ac.uk/careers

LSE Careers Service, 6th Floor,

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