Testimonials

The students who have completed their English internship have gained valuable experience, and have gone on to rewarding careers. Here are a few of their experiences.....

LeToya C. Parker

My experience with the internship was very positive.  I highly recommend every college student participate in an internship within his or her field near the end of his or her college term.  College courses provide a student with the proper tools to enter the workforce, but do not necessarily show the student how to actually use the tools as well as an internship can. 

From the moment I signed on to intern with Habitat for Humanity, there was lots of work to be done.  I recreated the marketing brochure and began sorting through all of the marketing materials to make sure everything was written with consistency and accuracy.  I was also assigned the task of reviewing every written material before it left the office and then editing said material for correctness if necessary.  This internship was also my first real experience with grant writing.  I wrote my first couple of grant proposals with Habitat for Humanty before even taking Dr. Filetti's Writing for Non-profit Organizations class, and it helped me tremendously in the class.

If it had not been for my internship with Habitat for Humanity, I would have survived (of course) but I would have struggled my first couple of months on a new job trying to figure out how what I learned in those awesome courses at CNU would be appropriately applied to this real world experience.  I believe internships provide students necessary support for the job industry because of the real world application, and it always helps to show internship details on a resume!  Employers love students with experience outside of the classroom.

Jamie Carter

I did my internship at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center as a marketing intern (which goes along very nicely with the PR Writing class!).

The experiences I had there really did prepare me for the work world. Since I work for a nonprofit agency, it taught me how the hierarchy generally works, regarding Board of Directors, Executive Directors, etc. It taught me to work with deadlines, to pass off my work to at least three people before submitting it for approval, and to take every opportunity for granted when it came to publicizing the agency. Nonprofits, after all, are still businesses. They need publicity in order to thrive and to continue to have a good stream of clients coming through their doors.

One of the other things I really liked about this experience is that it gave me the opportunity to really work in a creative setting in addition to a strictly technical setting. This particular internship helped me learn a lot of new skillsets (including additional computer programs) that not only look really good on a resume, but also are realistically applicable to the job I perform now as an economic developer.