Internship and End of the Year!

It has been quite awhile since I did my last post--so I thought I would update you on some new things going on in my life. First I would like to say, where did the time go? It seemed like yesterday that I graduated from Winona State University! Now it's almost 2011! It seems crazy to me! Over the course of the semester I applied to several jobs and internships to gain experience during my time in school. A lot of professors say that by having a Masters degree adds on years of experience. Although that may be true, I think it's very important to get hands on experience as well as being very educated. I applied to an HR/ marketing/bilingual internship and I got it! The interview was very intense, I was asking and answering questions for about an hour.I am really excited because this internship is very I/O influenced in my personal opinion. His passions are extremely aligned with my passions. I am also really happy that I will be able to use my Spanish skills. Although I have studied Spanish for years, I feel if you don't use it, you may lose it! I'll be able to see just how HR works in every aspect. I will be able to do structured interviews--something that I feel I will excel in, set up interviews, screen calls, find potential clients, research etc. My internship starts next wed. So I'll make sure to blog about my experience as a HR intern! In case you are thinking about going the HR or I/O route, than hopefully my blogs can help you to understand what a day in the life of a HR employee might be like. 

This upcoming week is my last week of the semester! Fortunately, I have only one exam! So this entire week will be dedicated to reading articles for my Personnel class. I found this class to be very beneficial, I actually talked about it a lot during my interview. I am really excited for my next semester of classes. I am taking a survey development class which I will be able to implement in my internship! I am also taking Advanced Statistics and Organizational Psychology which will be a review for me because I took it already in my undergrad, but hopefully it will have a very different teaching style and may focus on things that I did not in my undergrad course work. At the very end of my Personnel class we watched this video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixUbdeXCp0M&feature=related 
Check it out! This captain landed a plane on the Hudson River, he was going elsewhere, but birds flew into his plane and engine and he had to make an emergency landing. This man knew the protocol very well! He was actually an I/O psychologists!--which is why I find this to be so interesting. I/O psychologists are very knowledgeable eh? ;)

I hope you guys are not snowed into your homes! It's beginning to look like Christmas here in Chicago! Stay warm! :)