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Amazon SDE-Intern (6 months) Interview Experience 2021
By: Akshat Jain
Tags: Ggsipu, Interview Experience, Internships, Sde Intern, Amazon

I am a final year BTech student at USICT, GGSIPU. Amazon visited our university for the role of SDE Intern (6 months).

Initially, an online assessment test was conducted to shortlist candidates for the interview process.

Online test consists of four sections:

1. Debugging: This section had 7 debugging problems, which consist of code snippets that have some logical error which needs to be rectified. I solved all 7 problems. They were very easy.

2. Reasoning Ability: This section consist of some verbal reasoning questions and some aptitude questions. The question level was easy.

3. Coding: This section consists of 2 coding problems.

a) My first question was a simple matrix problem which I solved within 3–5 minutes.

b) The second question was to determine if a given tree S is a valid subtree of a tree T. I solved this problem as well.

4. Final section was a kind of survey or behavioural analysis. It consists of various work or behaviour related questions.

Around 30 candidates were shortlisted from my campus and over 150+ candidates were shortlisted from the university, and I was one of them.

Then my first round of interview was scheduled. I was pretty nervous before the interview.

First Round

My interviewer introduced himself in the beginning and asked for my introduction.

The first question he asked was Product Array Puzzle. It was a simple problem which I was able to solve after a little thinking.

The second problem he asked was an Asteroid collision problem. I tried to solve this problem. Thought of various approaches but was not able to solve this problem. I told one of my approach to the interviewer, after discussing my approach, finally, he asked me to code the solution.

My approach was not that straight forward as a result I was not able to code it properly and he was not satisfied with the solution.

The interview was time-bound and I took most of my time solving the second problem leaving me no time to move forward.

Finally, the interview was over and as I knew already, I was not selected for the second round.

PS: I solved my second problem within 5 minutes after the interview was over. Maybe I just got nervous and thought too much. It was a simple problem with a straight forward and easy approach (using stack).
How an Internship Caused Me to Change my Major
By: Badees Nouiouat
Tags: Life, College, Internships, Majors, Reflections

It was the winter of 2018.

I had just finished up a tough semester consisting of Computer Science, Calculus, and Physics classes.

I didn’t think hard when choosing Computer Science as my major. It’s just what everyone around me was doing.

Well, that or Pre-med. And I wasn’t doing that.

I applied for an internship at Experian, the credit reporting company. I received an invitation for a phone interview. On a rainy day outside the student union building, I took the call.

“You mentioned testing in your resume. What experience do you have related to this?”

“Umm…I uhh…” I mumbled a moderately cohesive answer.

After the call, I knew I blew it.

However, in a pleasant and shocking surprise, I got the offer.

I stumbled my way through the front door on my first day in a brand new dress shirt. Security guard at the front door. My own cubicle with 2 monitors. Everyone at least double my age. It was a lot to take in.

I worked there for a full year as a software engineering intern.

To keep a long story short, I realized that being a programmer wasn’t what I wanted to do.

It’s not that I didn’t like the company culture, my co-workers, or my wages.

I just couldn’t see myself in the chairs of my coworkers, years down the road.

That semester, I changed my major to Marketing.

People think it’s because I had started a clothing brand and I was particularly interested in Marketing.

The truth is, I wanted to be in the business school and Marketing fit best into my course requirements for graduation.

However, I have started to realize that I do like Marketing.

Marketing is all about helping people find value in the product or service that you are providing. Once they understand the value that it adds to their business or life, they will make the decision to become a customer.

As I near graduation in this upcoming spring, I’ve also realized that I am more of a creative oriented person. I like to write, help people, ask questions, and solve problems.

It’s been a long journey finding myself since I was a freshman majoring in Computer Science.

However, I’m so grateful for all the experiences I’ve had that have led me to where I am today.

Each struggle re-orients me onto my predetermined path. All I have to do is pay attention to what lesson I am to learn.
Employers: Are you asking the MOST important question during your remote intern and fellow interviews?
By: Nicole Tisdale
Tags: Employee Engagement, Internships, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Internship Experience

This summer, I joined the Virtual Intern Project, which is focused on helping Congress convert and continue remote internships during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been a great project, and together our team has helped address many of the barriers Congress faced with remote internships.

During this time, I’d been planning to hire the first class of virtual interns and fellows for Advocacy Blueprints. We’re a few months shy of our second anniversary and a small operation, so it still takes intentional planning and budgeting to make sure we can adequately pay and train our interns/fellows.

Last week, I started our final round of interviews, and I asked each candidate the most important question a hiring manager should ask during an interview for a remote position.

I was shocked that none of the candidates had been asked this question during their remote interviews. The response by each candidate was a sense of relief and gratitude.

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Best Resume Format for Students
By: Cyrille Writes
Tags: Resume, Intern, Curriculum Vitae, Side Hustle, Internships

Disclaimer: The pictures below are for example purposes only.

This is mainly for those with limited to no experience students who are either fresh graduates or undergraduates. You can use a ready-made format, but doing yours from a scratch allows you to manipulate the look of your file content to best showcase your strengths.

You should print the file on a clean bond paper in the size of 8.5” x 11” (short).

Save the file in PDF format so nothing will change and move if you send it online or if you go to a printing shop to get it printed.

Times New Roman is the most used font, but you can also opt for Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, Cambria, and other similar fonts that look professional. The size can either be 11 or 12 depending on your preference or the amount of information you are adding. If you are using the size 10 it means you are cramping information in, prioritize the most important ones.

For color choose black or grays.

You should adjust according to what the company or organization you are applying for instructs otherwise, you can use this format guide. There is no one format that is considered best, so you should trust your gut instinct and choose that which can showcase your credentials best.

The name has the biggest font. You can have it in a size 14–20 (the example below is in a size 16). It can be placed in the left, right, or center, but having it in the center allows the reader to catch your name easily. For the email, just choose one style either having it in bold, italic, underlined, or with color, but not all. Other information can remain in the font size you’ll use for the entire document to maintain coherence (the size of the font in all the examples is 12). Make sure to bold the information to make it stand out. You can switch up the placement of the information depending on which you’d like to emphasize.

Always have it in reverse chronological order or from latest to oldest. You do not need to put all the institutions you went to. Just include the school you’ve been in four to five years before the current date. Whatever format or style you’ll choose for this section will also be the style of the next sections.
Internship — Week 05. At Intrépide Studio
By: Pinho Daniel
Tags: Development, Web Design, Internships, Dwm, Web Development

Internship — Week 05

The week before, I talked to my colleagues and CEOs that, even though I’m learning much in development and that I really enjoy it, I want to do some designing to get as much of both experiences as I can. That would enable me to know exactly what I like the most. So I don’t regret later in my career to have chosen the development path, for instance.

They gladly agree on giving me both works since the last week before the holidays, my supervisor is on leave, and I will have a week of design work waiting for me.

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Still welgaume| 14/12

I’m still in preproduction with Welgaume, and I’m ensuring everything is running correctly. While checking, I noticed that I still have to style the privacy policy page and add the favicon. This was done in the morning, and I also created the main user account for the client with his data. Next, I checked that he has access to all essentials that he needs access to and if the page is still displaying everything as it should.

After lunch, my supervisor explained to me how they do their “e-mailings.” Meaning the HTML is injected in e-mails for the clients, containing links and images to direct users to clients' web pages. They are old fashioned coded HTML containing style in the HTML code and table tags stanked in table tags. This was the solution back then to create so nice looking pages and still be used for emails since not all e-mailing services have evolved.

Similar to these examples;

First Design work| 15/12

Today I got my first web design assignment, but I had to finish the HTML for the E-mail before that. I told you yesterday that it is coded in a very old fashioned, today I got an example to show you what it looks like.
Everything You Need To Know About IBM Research Internship At Bangalore
By: Krushabh Suryawanshi
Tags: Internship, Intern, Beyourself, Career

Hi Readers!

IBM Research has many internship positions available and is seeking highly motivated students with a background in computer science, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, or equivalent areas.

IBM India Research Lab is a premier research lab not only in India but also in the Asia region. The India lab has an impressive list of achievements and innovations in AI, Hybrid Cloud, and Security. Here IBM focuses on a wide array of projects in exploratory and applied research from multiple domains like NLP, Conversation System, Data and AI, Distributed System, Cryptography, and many more.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise For Interns IBM Looking For Are As Follows

The student must be enrolled in one of the following degree program: Btech/MS/Mtech/PhD

Preferred degrees include Computer science, Mathematics.

The student should have good hands-on experience in one or more of these programming languages widely used in open source community projects such as Go, Python, Ruby, C/C++, Java, Node.js, Javascript, etc.

The student should have decent Linux programming exposure.

Good to have some exposure to open source projects within Kubernetes/Big Data platform communities such as Knative, Operators, Fluentd, Prometheus, Elasticsearch, etc.

Good knowledge of software engineering practices including agile processes

The student must have very strong problem-solving aptitude and the ability to delve into multifaceted pieces of knowledge

This Is a Great Opportunity for Students To Work At IBM

What’s Responsibility in the Internship?

As a Research Intern, you get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities — where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration, and trust — where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.

Students Can Apply for Position at https://careers.ibm.com/ShowJob/Id/1025187/Intern

Source: https://careers.ibm.com/ShowJob/Id/1025187/Intern

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Internship
By: Wong Heng Lone
Tags: Internships, Society, Internship Experience, Company, Skills Development

Society taught us that during internship we would not be learning things that will be related to our profession. To be honest, it is true as I was one of the student who had faced this issue back in my internship days. From making multiple phone calls to random people to editing videos for the company. However, they are things that society does not get to see during those period.

As an example, my profession is based in IT and I was doing things that are mostly related to Marketing and Business.

Based on my opinion, I find it very useful even though they were not focused on guiding me on IT related work. This actually widens my knowledge towards Business and Marketing, giving me the opportunity of opening my own business which I have planned to open during my early 30’s and understand the marketing world deeper.

Cold-calling is one of the toughest job that I have faced back in my internship days as I have to try to convince people to join the company’s e-commerce platform. However, mastering the art of communication can be a huge deal in the future when we are facing our clients in the future.

Video editing was one of the easiest job that I have learned but that does not mean that I did not learn much from it. Learning video editing can give me the advantage of producing a good presentation video towards my clients to gain their trust towards my work.

In conclusion, the society should see things in a bigger picture because this can impact our future for the better good. Companies all around the globe would prefer an employee that has a profession with more self-learning skills as it can be beneficial for the company. Instead of focusing on one skill, we should learn more skills that can be benefit ourselves for our future.
Summer at IIM Ahmedabad: How I landed an Internship!
Tags: Business School, Nit Trichy, Internships, Iima, Internship Experience

How should you apply?

For a professor who checks emails between their classes and finds a request for an Internship, your mere curiosity is enough to make a great impression. A neat and formal Resume without a lot of accessories would do great. Your cover letter is usually the highlight since, In 3 paragraphs, you can convey why you want to work under XYZ professor, why he/she/they should select you, and why this internship is essential for you. When you say you are the right candidate for the position, you need not portray that you’re great at everything you’ve done in the past but that; when you commit to something, you give your full to it. Also, talk about some situations/instances on how you discovered your interests in Management Schools and what learning/reading you have done towards that interest.

My friends and I, while hunting for internships, went through numerous IIM Profs’ profiles, read through their published research papers, ongoing projects, and drafted over 100+ customized mails just to make sure even at a worst case of a 5% acceptance, we have choices to choose from and land a good internship in projects that honestly interest us. We also made sure the mail subject conveyed that we were looking to learn and not necessarily looking for an ‘internship’. Not sure if that’s termed a clickbait but it did work. I started mailing by early Jan, scheduled a number of 4–5 mails to send out at 8 AM every morning on the previous day before going to sleep. What I had observed is that most professors prefer to check their emails in the morning, whereas some later in the afternoon. Choose a time accordingly and be sure to have a mail tracker so you have some idea of who has checked and who hasn’t so you can send reminders post a two week’s time.

I remember sending out around five mails on the first of January to professors at IIMA under various branches, later send out a reminder mail for the same mails towards the beginning of February. And, one of these reminder emails received a reply with acceptance by March. A paid internship at IIM Ahmedabad and an opportunity to visit the campus! (which was pretty huge for a 19-year-old then). The whole mailing timeline sounds slow, and a lot of it depends upon luck, sadly. Even if you do not get any sort of acceptance, this whole grind will give you a lot of learning on how you’ll be applying to colleges later for your higher studies or jobs after graduation! I have observed people who had little to no experience in the English language or in composing formal mails get a good exposure on how to draft one with good vocabulary, attach an impressive resume, and later go on to making mind-blowing SOPs, essays in their final year for applications to grad schools abroad.
How to Land a Startup Internship
By: Ayesha Khan
Tags: Contracts, College, Internships, Startup Internships, Startup

Resume

Photo by Bram Naus on Unsplash

Perfecting your Resume is so important. Make sure a lot of people look at your resume before you pass it onto recruiters.

Investing some money on a resume is worth it. I personally used Zety and Canva to make my resume look good. Recruiters look at hundreds of resumes a day and if your resume looks clean and is mistake-free, it makes a huge difference. I once had a recruiter from Adobe thank me for having a resume that was easy to scan with icons and legible font sizes.

Startups are also impressed with good resumes. Cold-emailing a Startup is a good way to get in contact with them. I once emailed a Startup near my university explaining how excited I would be to work on their product and that I would love to learn from them. We connected and I got that internship!

Connections & Reputation

Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash

3 out of the 4 Startup work I landed were through internal references. And by internal references, I mean they knew me on a personal level and knew my work ethics. I didn’t ask them for an internship, but when their companies were hiring, they remembered me from my work I did with them.

One of the Startup positions I got was from someone in my Physics class who I studied with. She dropped out of college and started a company and asked me to join her. Another was through a friend from Society of Women Engineers, SWE club. Also, I landed another internship from someone I met at a previous contract work which was ending soon.

Basically study groups, college clubs, and even your previous work places can land you on your next internship or job. Just work hard and have genuine friendships with the people around you!

Good luck 😀

P.S. Comment below if you’ve recently watched or are watch Start-up on Netflix! I went on a binge watch recently, it’s an amazing K-drama!
We’ve Got to Say Our Goodbyes to Move on to the Next Hello
Tags: Gratitude, Goodbye, Growth, Internships, Career Journey

We’ve Got to Say Our Goodbyes to Move on to the Next Hello Bethellyjl Follow Dec 11, 2020 · 3 min read

Today is my last day at Skillsoft. In the last 8 months, I’ve been so lucky to work with some of the most amazing people. I’ve worked on great projects; I’ve been able to see some of my projects come to fruition and I’ve learned a lot.

I knew my time at Skillsoft would eventually come to an end, but it’s hard saying goodbye when you really don’t want to go. Alas, it’s life. We say goodbye, to move on to the next hello. And I can truly say that the connections I’ve made here, I will carry with me throughout my life and career.

Life is about changes, and there’s different seasons. While my time at Skillsoft comes to an end, I also close the chapter of my college experience next week. I can’t believe I’m graduating. It’s something that you keep in the back of your mind, and you don’t fully realize what’s happening until it occurs. I have been so fortunate to have an amazing college experience, and to finish my last semester at Emerson while taking both in person and remote classes has been a privilege. I know that there are college seniors who are graduating this fall that are completing their degrees from home. I know it’s not ideal and no one could have ever imagined that a pandemic could have upended our lives in a multitude of ways. I will say the grace and resilience that the class of 2020 has shown during these challenging times should be noted.

As I embark on the next chapter of my journey, I feel confident that my time at college and Skillsoft has equipped me with tons of experience and knowledge. And I want to thank a few people who have helped me during my journey. A big thank you to my fellow marketing interns: Gianna, Amanda and Samantha. You all have been so helpful, and it has been a pleasure to work with you. I can’t thank my supervisors Jen and Allison enough for their guidance. I’ve been able to grow so much in my role because of them. A huge thanks to the Skillsoft Marketing team- from various interactions, you all have been so kind, and I appreciate it so much.

It’s not easy saying goodbye, but I’m looking forward to the future. It’s very strange graduating during a pandemic, nevertheless, it’s an accomplishment. Although, I’m happy that I’m graduating and starting the next chapter of my life, I will say that accepting change is hard. I want to share a quote with you all that I’ve reflected on these past few weeks. I invite you all who are experiencing change in life to reflect on this quote too.

“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”- C. JoyBell C.
Hamoye DataScience Internship
By: Rukayat Adesoye
Tags: Hamoye, Intern, Internships

Every successful career path requires guidance and mentorship from experts who are vast in the knowledge field. This is where Hamoye comes in for me: an educational technology organization.

My Experience: I never knew I could survive to the last stage of the internship since it started in July 2020, this is because I get bored easily been exposed to routine tasks. It was different with hamoye because every stage of the internship challenges me with new tasks that I am ready to explore and solve. I have been able to sharpen my python programming skills, ability to telling stories with data through EDA (Exploratory data analysis), and web scraping for access to some data.

Team Work: I did not only learn technical skills with hamoye, I also pick up on some soft skills from the internship through team works at the last stages. Teamwork is crucial to the success of any organization, I am glad I was able to experience it with hamoye. My contributions to open source projects through the team too were exciting to me, the ability to build on what others have done, making my own impact makes me happy.

Conclusion: I am glad I signed up for hamoye data science internship, the amount of knowledge, skills, and changes in me could not be compared to five and a half months ago.
When I Think Africa, I think…
By: Think Africa
Tags: Finland, Africa, Community, Internships

By Christiana Charley

My name is Christiana Charley. I am originally from Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Currently, I am a third-year undergraduate student at Tallinn University. Since my arrival to Estonia, I have been desperately in search of an African community to compensate for the void of homesickness.

During the summer of 2020, I got to know about Think Africa through a friend, who was at the time doing an internship in Social media marketing. And briefly after joining the organization I familiarized myself with its goals, mission and functions.

Surprisingly, there was a description on the Think Africa webpage, that alluded to the organization as a Diaspora focused entity, which acts as a bridge between Finland and African countries. However, in a deeper meaning, I realized that Think Africa really is a comfort for Africans living in Finland.

I am the one sitting on the couch, to the left of the gentleman in the picture.

I have worked as an interim with Think Africa for two months and I plan to continue as a volunteer member. I do love the community and all that it stands for. I was also asked as to what personally connects me to the mission of Think Africa, and my answer is related to my study in Social Science. For me it feels as though the organization directly caters to the works of social science practitioners, because of its community centeredness and activities dealing with social issues affecting the African Diaspora community in Finland.

Furthermore, Think Africa showcases the diversity of African culture through their organized events, platform and network partnerships. What more could a social practitioner, who is keen on empowerment and grassroot community advocacy desire as motivation to join such an organization

Joining Think Africa exceeds all of my expectations, and I am very happy that such a support system exists in Finland. Honestly, Think Africa is an invigorating phenomenon. I attended the first group meeting on Thursday, the 13th of August 2020, and had the wonderful opportunity to meet members of the board, who dedicate their voluntary time ensuring the successful function of the organization.

In retrospect this meeting was for me an amazing experience. During those two hours, I got to personally know other members of the organization, discuss relevant organizational matters with them, evaluate individual volunteer’s weekly contributions, achievements and formulation of future goals.

In reflection I think of Think Africa ry, as a safe African space away from home. My message to others is an encouragement to volunteer now and seize the opportunity to gain a valuable lifetime experience for yourself. Learn how you can join through their website www.thinkafrica.fi
Internship — Week 04. At Intrépide Studio
By: Pinho Daniel
Tags: Development, Web, Internships, Dwm, Heaj

Corrections are done | 09/12

Sometime After lunch, I finished all the corrections. My supervisor took some time to explain some basics of “DNS” to understand how he launched the preproduction project. I understand now that DNS stands for “Domain Name System” and converts an IP address to a String linked to the respective Owner or company. I also know now the difference between IPv4 and IPv6.

IPv4:

Have a structure like this : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

“xxx” going from 0 to 255 |meaning having 256 possibilities (including 0 in count)

This is 32 bits and gives us 4.3 billion unique IP addresses, which seems like a lot but considering that everyone has a smartphone and a laptop or PC, this already makes 2 IP addresses for one person. Taking into account every person that probably owns more than 2devices that can connect to the internet. This makes the 4.3 billion unique IP addresses seem small. Therefore we have IPv6.

IPv6:

have structure like this : XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXX

Which is 128bits that enables to reach 340.282.366.920.938.463.463.374.607.431.768.211.456 unique Ip addresses. Which is a whole lot more.

In DNS, he explained to me that the “type” ;

A stand for Adress like IP Adress

Mx is for email domains

and TXT is for a text that can be used to store security keys to confirm further that u are the rightful owner of this domain.

Last bug fixes | 10/12

This morning on the home page, the menu button wasn’t opening, so I had to fix this. This happens because the scripts weren’t added in the footer.
Importance of Internship in a Student’s Life
By: Mitti Ke Rang
Tags: Internships

Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash

In the midst of ever-increasing competition and the need to outshine, the internship has somewhat become the only way through which one can get into and learn about the business world. Moreover, in this pandemic hit the world, there is a surge in internships. Internships mainly refer to a work experience provided by an organization to the intern for a limited period. It basically helps the interning candidate to use their theoretical knowledge in the practical world. It gives them an idea about the ins and outs of that job position.

Internship helps in both personal as well as professional development. On the personal front, it helps in the development of certain skills which are very essential if you want to thrive and grow in the business environment. It helps in understanding the importance of leadership as well as teamwork. It helps in the development of soft skills and improves the critical thinking ability of the interns. Apart from this most of the organization also helps in experiencing real-life working situations and coping up with work stress. Speaking about professional development, internships are a great way of building networks. In today's dog-eat-dog world, having connections with prominent people has become essential. It opens doors for new opportunities. But one shouldn’t forget that in the end, everything comes to skills, IQ and EQ. Networking just helps in driving such skill-oriented persons to a useful organization.

In today's digital world, searching for internships has become very easy. LinkedIn is considered to be the go-to app for finding jobs and internships too. It is an easy way of connecting recruiters and applicants. There are other sites like Internshala, LetsIntern, Glassware that provides similar opportunities for the interns. Also, in campus placements are a common way used by organizations for recruiting a large number of students from a single place. This provides two-way benefit both to the student and organization. Students get a first-hand experience of what it feels like to work in a company and at the same time acquire new skills. On the other hand, organizations are able to cut down on their work costs and get a chance to interact with new and innovative minds that can help them to grow in the future.

Internships are a good way to present our resume in a better light. It also gives the candidate an idea of what he likes and what he doesn’t. This helps him in choosing the job that will fit him the most. Internships can be paid as well as unpaid depending upon the organization and their rules. When interns are paid according to their performances, it helps to get the work done in the best possible way. It builds a sense of commitment and dedication towards the work. However, there are organizations that provide valuable experience and contacts to young workers, while lowering costs and risks to organizations by providing unpaid internships. And it completely depends upon the applicant on what he wants to choose from.

Contributed By- Nayana Nandi, Content Writer at Mitti Ke Rang
How I Turned An Internship Into a Full Time Job
Tags: Online Education, Full Time Jobs, Internships, How To, Coderstrust Academy

Hi, I am Maria Ysasi and I am going to tell you the story of how I turned my internship into a full time job.

As part of my master’s studies, I had the choice to either take some elective courses or to work at a company for 6 months. To me it was clear, I needed to gain some experience and apply the skills I learnt in the master’s programme. In August 2019, I started working as an intern at Coderstrust, a social enterprise and startup.

Beginnings are always a little bit intimidating, the company was very small and I was working directly with the CEO. In addition, I had to process a lot of information on how the company was operating and what my role was. Nevertheless, I was very excited about this new opportunity and ready to learn!

From the start, I was given different tasks and responsibilities that I did to the best of my abilities. Being successful at delivering quality output on time for the firm was key for me to turn the internship into a full time position. How did I do this? Let me give you some tips!

First, I asked many questions. As my teachers used to say “There is no such a thing as a stupid question”. In order to successfully complete a task, it is essential that you not only understand it, but that you are also aware of the expectations of the person that gave you the task. Asking relevant questions really worked for me!

Another thing that I quickly realized is that tasks would not just land at my desk and that my role was not completely defined. Therefore, I had to be very proactive. If I did not have anything to do, I would first ask my colleagues if I could be of assistance. If they did not have anything that I could help them with, I analyzed what I could do that the firm might benefit from.

Moreover, I always met my deadlines, so my colleagues knew that they could rely on me. It might seem obvious but you may be surprised on how easy it is to miss deadlines, and how often this occurs. Therefore, I would recommend that in a simple excel spreadsheet, you outline your tasks (so that you have an overview) and next to those tasks you set yourself a deadline. If you are asked for a deadline that you can’t meet, do not be afraid to raise your concerns to the team! Present them with your tasks overview and agree with them on a reasonable timing.

Lastly, and as you might have inferred from my previous tips, remember that constant communication is the key to success and that you are part of a team. Always try to help your teammates and communicate with them as much as possible.

In summary, asking questions, proactivity, meeting deadlines, and constant communication are the factors that have led me to success in my internship and helped me turn it into a full time job. I suggest that you try them out and surely you will succeed too!
Yurt Dışı Staj: Genişletilmiş Rehber
By: Alperen Keleş
Tags: Europe, University, Internships, Summer Internships, Study Abroad

60 ACCELERATORS AND INCUBATORS IN GERMANY

The Entrepreneurship in Berlin is going to one of the center of the world and in Germany there are many accelerators…
Cape Town Aground: My International Internship Experience Amidst COVID-19
By: Kyra Caral
Tags: Internship, South Africa, Lockdown

Cape Town Aground: My International Internship Experience Amidst COVID-19

On a mid-March, Saturday morning a couple of hours before noon, I flew into South Africa for the second time in my life.

I’d left the Philippines on Friday the 13th. Technically a day prior to my touchdown on South African soil and a little over twelve thousand kilometres away from home, Friday the 13th had never really been an unlucky date for me (usually quite the contrary, through sheer coincidence). March 13 was the glaring exception. I didn’t take it personally; after all, 2020 has been a cursed year altogether.

I’d flown from NAIA- Ninoy Aquino International Airport- where dreams and carefully planned schedules go to die. I’ve flown from NAIA enough times to expect delays as a natural part of life within the Hellmouth the airport sits on, but no one loves to spend an hour-and-a-half of a Friday afternoon crammed in a crowded terminal gate. I then had the fortune of sitting between two men who coughed up a storm throughout the duration of the flight, which didn’t do wonders for my nerves. Thankfully, the second leg of the trip- Dubai to Cape Town- was much more relaxing. A lot emptier too.
Working for Free Needs to End
By: Jeff Ehren
Tags: Work, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Internships, Progress, Unpaid Internships

Working for Free Needs to End

Photo by Studio Republic on Unsplash

When I first saw this tweet by US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last year, I thought that there finally would be a labor movement to stop unpaid internships. But upon seeing some of the responses, I realized that the United States has an uphill battle. However, we aren’t the only ones.

Beth Kirkbride, founder of The Indiependent, is in the UK and just tweeted a thread about writing for free. She delves into the costs for running her publication, the angst and dismissiveness from paid professionals as well as the appreciation by journalists new to the field.

My own journey includes unpaid internships, but the lack of change mixed with archaic excuses for keeping such traditions is frustrating. Work is work, and it should be paid.

After college, I worked at a professional theatre for six months as an unpaid intern. That experience didn’t grant me special access into another theatre job. Instead, I worked at a Blockbuster (it was 1998) for six months as I stayed with my sister, and then I returned home to my parents.

I later returned to professional theatre, starting again with an unpaid internship (though housing was provided). I worked in theatre for five years, but the internships didn’t assist me — it was the fact that I didn’t say “no.” During the two busiest years, I didn’t even get two full weeks off. I was constantly working, and I burned out.

A few years later, my father offered to bring me into the business he had built over the decades. But he didn’t want to pay me. My own father used the excuse that his knowledge and the experience would benefit me and therefore didn’t need to pay me. I quickly stopped working for him.

Twenty years later I earned my second master’s degree, this time in journalism. The professors in the program pushed for internships — unpaid internships. In other words, students would pay tuition to have the opportunity to work for free. The rationalization is that the student would earn a degree as well as gain experience. In reality, it’s an academic institution taking money for services they are not providing while the student provides their service to a business for free.

This needs to stop.

As The Washington Post reported, CEO earnings keep going up — so why is unpaid work still okay? Clearly there is money to be paid to those truly doing the work.

When I was a union president, I thought that the unpaid internship was a domestic issues and low wages a global issue. But now I understand that both are a global issue. The notion that such a system needs to exist is a lie, and it’s a hopeful sign that the next generation is angry and willing to fight to get rid of it.

However, the ability to express one’s self and practice one’s passion should not be dissuaded. People such as Beth Kirkbride provide a platform for others to do this and she should be applauded for her efforts. I wish my own colleagues in my master’s program had such enthusiasm to lift each other up while fighting an oppressive system.
Cape Town Aground: My International Internship Experience Amidst COVID-19
By: Kyra Caral
Tags: Internship, Cape Town, Lockdown, South Africa

Cape Town Aground: My International Internship Experience Amidst COVID-19

MONDAY

Monday marked the first day of my internship. I had a video call with my supervisors, where they discussed how things would proceed remotely for the duration of my time with them. Laura, one of my roommates, had flown back to Germany over the weekend. And lockdown was officially announced.

This week, I settled into my tasks. My primary assignment for the next three months was the company handbook. I’d have to interview the heads of each department, type up and compile information, then organize it.

I’ve written 20+ papers for school before. Sometimes more than one within the same quarter. A book is a bigger beast, but I was up for the challenge.

I began my job by interviewing one of my supervisors for the Project Management section, and tentatively scheduling interviews with the other Project Management heads.

Meanwhile, I continued stockpiling for the oncoming lockdown. I’d go to the grocery very day and buy long-term goods for my shelves. I paid a visit to a Korean grocery and got some key ingredients- sesame oil, sesame seeds, soy sauce, dried seaweed, kimchi and instant noodles- to prep for the days I’d miss Asian food for the months ahead.

The only people left in the VACorps program were in my apartment. The office closed on Wednesday, the day I had to start getting used to working frjom my bedroom. On on Thursday, lockdown began. On Friday, we got a new roommate, Jan (pronounced YaHN). Jan was a German exchange student, who’d planned for a semester in Western Cape University.
My follow up on open source (week 11@ Encora Academy)
By: Uriel Martinez
Tags: Internships, Docker, Encora, Open Source

This week, my take on open source was a little deeper than the past week. I finally chose between the hundreds of projects on GitHub after a long review.

In the beginning, I decided to get to work on Pandas, a library for analysis and data manipulation wrote in Python. This project has about 3.4k open issues, so it was a good choice since there was a lot of work to do.

The first step was to set up the environment to start working. I followed the guide for contributing to Pandas. They recommend working in a container so finally, I get to know what Docker is about.

Docker is a tool for automatizing the process of project deployment, it builds a “container” where there is everything you need to start working. From dependencies, environments, and all kinds of software requirements and resources to have nothing to worry about.

Then, the only problem that I had was that it took me nearly the whole day building the container, lucky me, while Docker was working, I found an issue that I thought I could start working on right away.

By Thursday, I finally started to work on my first issue, it was about getting rid of unnecessary dict() calls in a bunch of files. It is because flake8 (C408) standard says that it is slower to call dict() than using the empty literal, for example:

Rewrite: dict() as {}

Rewrite: dict(a=1, b=2) as {}

Rewrite: list() as []

Rewrite: tuple() as ()

I just modified one single file to see how this contributing thing works, I noticed that when you do a pull request for an Open Source project, it has to pass all checks that they have implemented.

By Friday, I got the hang of it, and I did five more files from the same issue to prove myself. Everything worked just fine, and they got merged into the Pandas project. It feels good to know that somehow now you have contributed something to them…

I also took a look at another project called Faker, which is a library that helps you building fake datasets when you need data to prove anything you want. I found an issue about implementing type-checking and I also started to work on it.

This week there was not a specific schedule of activities or a specific guide for what to do, but since it was all about finding projects and understand what they do and how it works, it feels like a completely different type of work.

Conclusion

This week I learned a lot about tools that projects implement for keeping order in code, I learned about the flake8 rules and standards, I learned about continuous integration tools such as Travis, I learned about mypy and type-checking which will keep me busy the following week. I just realized how much I still have to learn about Python.
VISION 2025
Tags: Vision, Digital Marketing, Internships, Goals

Year 2025: PrabhuDev is a successful Businessman and Entrepreneur. He has 2 Companies and has around 150 Employees in Bangalore. He is very passionate about his Work,He is an ambitious and driven Person. His one Companie helps build people’s Business through online, and he has a Hospitality Venture.

Through his companies he is helping the government by paying taxes regularly and also he feeds the people in need. He has also started an orphan Project in Bangalore.

Through his Orphan Project he is providing food,Education and shelter for the needy.

When it comes to Finance and money management he is the best, he is an investor and also invested in many startups in India.He also holds Stocks and shares of many companies and he also invests in Mutual Funds. This guy is a genius in Money management; he maintains his Assets and Liabilities like a Pro.

He says his Finance and Money management skill was learned from a book

“Rich Dad and Poor Dad” by Robert T Kiyosaki

About his Personal life he has a super happy family and he owns a Private Bungalow in Bangalore and has a Farm House where he spends most of his time in his farmhouse. He loves travelling so much, he Travels so often in a year. His craze for Cars is never ending. He has a super duper collection of cars in his Garage, some of his collections are Ferrari, Maserati,Mercedes-Benz,Audi Etc.

He is a Fitness Freak, he has his own gym located in Bangalore. He workout’s every day to keep himself healthy. His gym is free of Cost for the Aspiring Youth.He also does cycling on the weekend without failure, and sometimes he also does trekking.

He believes that consistency, Hard Work and Patience is the best way for Success and it changes the world. Without a doubt, it was his hard work and desire to excel that moved him up the ladder.Today, it is his warmth and passion that make him such a valuable resource to the company and to all those around him.
Does This Quiet Blue Tide In West Chester Offer A Path For Ohio Dems?
By: Jacob Geers
Tags: Ohio, Democratic Party, Suburbs, 2020 Presidential Race

My grandfather settled in West Chester within what would become one of the townships oldest neighborhoods — though at the time, it was a few roads, a few farms, and a few homes. He built the house himself, and when his kids got older they would bike around the neighborhood watching new houses go up.

When my mom was young, she remembered the now endlessly congested Tylersville Road as a Pizza Hut, Long John Silver’s, and a gas station. The Dudley Farm was still a farm, and Voice of America was just a radio tower and not a shopping center — or even a metropark.

I have deep roots in West Chester. But I’m a little rusty. I moved out of state in 2017, and haven’t made any of my semi-annual pilgrimages back this year due to COVID-19. I’m going to try to dive into some pretty specific precinct-by-precinct data to try to explain a fairly remarkable electoral shift, but it’s possible some of my context might be old. Nothing would make me happier than other sets of eyes getting on this data and provide even sharper information—particularly any new housing development that might impact the numbers.

Okay, with more exposition than a foodie’s recipe blog post, here’s a look at the township in 2016 and 2020. I’ll try not to endlessly reference precinct numbers and talk more broadly, but dropping the precinct map below for reference:

For a township that’s supposed to be a Republican stronghold, Hillary Clinton has real areas of strength in the township. I’ll get into more precinct analysis later on, but she is competitive west of I-75 and wins two Port Union precincts—a region where Obama performed fairly, but failed to win any precincts in either 2008 or 2013 (West Chester redrew precincts in 2013, so it’s not a direct comparison).

Joe Biden flips three precincts from red to blue, and seems to make gains…almost everywhere. Literally. I won’t bury the lede any further, here’s the precinct-by-precinct swing just from 2016 to 2020 — and remember, Hillary did *okay* in 2016.

Quite literally the only precinct to not swing more blue in 2020 is WC39, which is the one Democratic stronghold in West Chester. It voted D+60.57 in 2016, and D+60.41 in 2020.
It is important to realize that over 70 million people voted for Trump in the last election.
By: Marc Gordon
Tags: Trump, 2020 Presidential Race, 2020

It is important to realize that over 70 million people voted for Trump in the last election. How many of those voters are in poverty, don’t have enough to eat, but have money to contribute to an alleged billionaire.

It is time as a nation that we take responsibility for our destination. We are not a failed state, but a fractured one. New York City and Los Angeles are demographically and politically distinct as compared to the Rural South and Great Plains. The challenge is to unite this once great country. Only knowledge and education can do so as a first step.

We need to wake up and unite as a nation.