Without actually knowing what I was going to face in the internship, I knew in my head that there are two important things to bring home with me from the process; the experience<\/i>, and the knowledge<\/i>. With this in mind, I formulated two underlining questions for myself. How will you record the experience? <\/i>and How will you remember anything and everything you learn\u00a0whilst on placement?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m a firm believer of hand-written notes, but I also believe that writing them on paper without analysing or reflecting on them isn’t\u00a0useful for anyone. If anything, the information would ultimately enter your brain through your left ear and exit through your right. As learners we have to actively process what we hear or see in order to remember it in the way that most suits our learning styles. M<\/span>aking diagrams and flowcharts digitally for me is a big no-no, and this is where\u00a0the scanning of handwritten notes come in.<\/p>\n I’m sharing my journal methods with others, so they too can get the most out of their placement or internship.\u00a0Download the\u00a0templates below:<\/p>\n The two templates\u00a0complement one another. The first template\u00a0is to be used daily to keep notes and recall what you have learned that particular day at work. The second template\u00a0is\u00a0to be used weekly for\u00a0reflection to show how you feel about your experience.<\/p>\n The key to any journal writing is reflection. However, I soon learned that a daily reflection would take too much of my actual learning time, so I did it on the weekends – hence the weekly reflections! I also believe this is more effective; it allowed me to look at the bigger picture and consider all of the things I’d learnt.<\/span><\/p>\n They were very useful for recording new things that I learnt along the way.\u00a0<\/span>Making use of these self-created formats helped me to finish my final product in the internship, which summarises everything I was taught during the process. These formats can be used for any <\/i>kind of experience and could eventually help you with your CV writing. I know the struggle of CV writing, especially for first-timers. Insight days, work shadowing, 1-month internships or even 3-months; write up all the things you learn along the way to help you stay on track and not lose them when you leave the building!<\/span><\/p>\n Many thanks to Michelle for sharing advice with us. If you need any further support or guidance on placement or employability, contact the Employability and Placements Co-ordinators at Canterbury <\/a>or Medway<\/a>, or\u00a0Irena Jennings<\/a>, Lecturer in Careers and Employability for Kent Business School<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hi, my name is Michelle Pratama and I’m currently studying on my second year of my BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance with a year in Industry<\/a>. Sharing my personal experiences is definitely in my favorite-things-to-do list, and that’s why I joined the\u00a0Kent Business Matters Blogging community. I genuinely hope the things I share can be beneficial to other students.<\/p>\n View Michelle on LinkedIn.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michelle Pratama is a second year undergraduate, studying Accounting & Finance with a year in Industry at Kent Business School. Having undertaken an internship over … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44051,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,169048,151355],"tags":[872,169059,19145,1308,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}My Journal Method<\/h2>\n
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