1. How can the LSE Internship Programme help your career? Frances Meegan LSE Careers Service

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. How might this look like on your CV? Dec 2005-April 2006 LLM Communications, London, UK Strategic 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 workshop for senior NGO managers

6. 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, Tower 3