The following blog post discusses my internship experience and how I was able to develop certain NACE Career-Readiness Competencies. Communication Communication was very important for me to use throughout my internship this semester. I had to keep all the nominators of the award winners updated on when we would be coming to surprise everyone and coordinate the marketing team and destination services team schedules to make sure enough people could attend each surprise. We had

This blog post is a reflection of my spring 2026 internship answering the bolded questions.   Share an analysis of what the organization did well to support your internship, and how the organization could improve the experience for future interns. Throughout my internship I was offered the opportunity to work with a lot of different software and collaborate on different pieces that I wouldn’t have done otherwise. I helped with some work on Canva, worked in Google and Word to

This blog post is a final reflection of the curation of my ePortfolio as well as of my nonverbal communication course. In what ways do you think you improved your professional presence after completing the eP? Throughout this semester I have been curating my existing ePortfolio and have found it to be very helpful. In previous courses I had created and posted on Wix but I had never been told what changes could be made to improve my professional presence. From this curation of

This blog post discusses the NACE Career-Readiness Competencies and which ones I believe best apply to my internship experience and will help in my future career. Career & Self Development I believe this competency is exactly what I have been doing by having an internship in college and trying to prepare for the future. Within my internship I spent a lot of time trying to prepare for the future, first with the event that has now passed, and now with next year's event. A great

This blog post is a reflection of my fall 2025 internship answering some specific questions. What SMART goals were met, which weren’t?   At the start of my internship I set three SMART goals to try and accomplish by the end of my internship. Now that I am nearing the end of my internship, it is time to look back at these and consider if I was able to complete them all. The first was to improve my professional email writing skills, when compared to the beginning of my internsh

For my nonverbal communication class I have been asked to curate my existing ePortfolio which consisted of making quite a few changes to...

For my Nonverbal Communication class I have been asked to curate my existing ePortfolio with new sections to make it more organized....

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I find Wix to be a really straight forward platform when you look into the different tools offered. I also had a bit of an easier time as...

The past two weeks we have been learning about ethical and visual persuasion, which has brought up the concept of advertisements. My...

For about the past two weeks in my persuasion class we have been digging deeper into the various characteristics of persuasion and the...

The past two weeks in my persuasion class, centered in the communications major at my college, we have been discussing different types of...