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Hi, my name is Colette Lauture,
and I am a junior journalism
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major with a minor in narrative nonfiction here at Emerson.
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And last summer, I worked with GBH as a GBH news intern
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under the umbrella of the radio
and editorial slash
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investigative team.
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I found this internship
through a LinkedIn job posting.
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When I read the job description,
it seemed like it really catered to
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my needs as a journalist and just
what kind of journalistic activities
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I wanted to take a part of.
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It was a lot of reporting, research.
It checked off a lot of boxes in terms
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of what I wanted to do with my summer as a journalism intern somewhere.
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The Future Ready Career Course really helped me in that
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it gave me more of a confidence booster in terms of my resume
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and kind of the skills that I could already bring to the table.
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It gave me a lot more confidence
in going into the interview process,
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what to expect, how to answer specific questions using the STAR method,
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So I think just getting
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the proper resources from that Future Ready course in terms of interviewing,
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how to polish up my resumé, how to email
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a recruiter saying thank you
after an interview.
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I think those were all just really helpful
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things that the course taught me
that led me to landing this internship.
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Honestly, it was a bunch of things.
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I think getting to meet all of the other fellow interns is really nice.
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We had a bunch of group-wide intern activities that we would take part in together.
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Sometimes we would have guest speakers
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come in from the GBH company
to talk to us about their jobs,
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and I also really appreciated the projects that I was able to work on.
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GBH News, they put out a whole deliverable on the slave history
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behind Boston’s Freedom Trail
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that’s not really discussed on tours
that people go on for the trail.
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So I was able to write two articles on two of the sites on the Freedom Trail,
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and that’s published on their website.
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So it was just really nice to have
my byline on their website permanently.
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I think I’m just really proud
that I was able to contribute to that kind of a project.
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Advice I have for other Emerson students who may be starting their internships
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soon is to just honestly make
the most of it.
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Really get to know the people you work with and not even just
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your fellow interns, but also your bosses and maybe colleagues of your bosses….
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All it takes is that one connection that you have with
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someone that could open the door
for you in numerous ways maybe.
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You never know,
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those connections
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can be secret weapons in your arsenal when you are navigating the job world.
