Hendrix Snapshots - Intern insight

LEIGH LASSITER-COUNTS: Today is a new event at Hendrix. We got this idea from doing some travels to other liberal arts colleges to see how they promoted Career Services with their students. Intern Insight came about by wanting to have an opportunity for students to talk to other students about their internship opportunities. ADELIA SHIFFRAW: So I joined the HP Cloud team back in early November. Late October/early November. I came into HP with no business background at all. I'm an English major so this has been a huge experience for me just kind of getting a chance to see what the corporate environment is like, working with cloud which is so new and big in the tech world has been really neat to kind of be there from the beginning and see what it's like growing with it. PHILIP GREEN: So I was working at the Toltec Mountain Research Station for the Arkansas Archeological Survey. Starting off was just learning all those different sorts of artifacts that they have there, how to classify them. We did some artifact analysis, so we learned a lot of really quick thinking and analytical thinking as well on the artifacts. LEIGH: So we wanted it to be a real low-key, casual opportunity for students to see not only how our students do internships and where they do internships, but also just get some feedback from their peers. ABIGAIL GARCIA-LUCAS: At THV-11, they're really good with their interns and working with them and helping them learn how to write for the news and learning about story structure and editing. Yeah, it's just really good hands-on experience. LEIGH: We hoped that we would have some students come and we did so it's been really exciting to see the energy and see the students get behind it both as vote as presenters, as former interns, and students coming to talk to them about their internships.