Finding a Placement

As soon as I decided to pick Media Internship as a module at the university of San Francisco, I was trying to find my placement. While still in England I created a resume and cover letter so I could email local businesses to see if I could have a work placement while I was studying in America. I sent out over 20 emails but with only a few replies, some replied with asking for a meeting when I arrived in San Francisco and others asked for Skype interviews.

Skype interviews became difficult due to the time difference as working hours in San Francisco were at night time in England so for many of the interviews I would have to stay up in to the early hours of the morning. Another frustrating part of Skype interviews were that there was a lot lagging with the connection as the interviewee would ask questions and I would not receive them and vice versa. A positive of these interviews was that it gave me an insight of what an internship interview is like as I haven't had an interview of any sort before these ones and this gave me experience when it came to face to face interviews.

I found it better when I had interviews over in San Francisco as I could meet people from the companies face to face and see what the environment I will be working in was like. This was an important part of deciding where I wanted to go as one placement I had an interview at was on the other side of San Francisco and it took me a while to travel there on many buses and I found it difficult just to get to the interview so I wouldn’t of liked going there on a weekly basis. Jodan Lavigne