6 tips to make the most of your internship

Clyde & Co works with the 10,000 Black Interns Foundation to provide internship opportunities for students every year.

Read on to hear from Kwabena Boakye-Dankwa, Marketing and Business Development intern, who shares his top tips for making the most of your internship. 

"I am grateful to say that at the end of last month I had finished my 6-week summer internship as a marketing and business development intern for Clyde & Co. 

It has truly been an amazing, insightful and fulfilling experience and I am appreciative for such a great initiative.

I have learnt so much over the short time of me working at the firm, but what I’ll take away from the experience is learning how to be a better and more complete version of myself day after day.

Here are six things I learnt in my 6-week Summer Internship as a marketing & business development intern that you can use to make the most of your own internship:

1. ASK QUESTIONS: This is something that I definitely learnt the hard way but if you do not ask questions you will not get the right answer/s you’re looking for.

2. Be Proactive: Be bold & proactive when speaking to people that know more about the field you are trying to get into long-term as they can give you advice and insights when they first started out.

3. Be a Sponge: Be receptive to advice you are getting and apply the theory into practice.

4. Be Flexible: It is not all about sitting at your desk and working hard but make sure that you are also building the necessary soft skills needed by going out of your way to set up meetings with higher-ups also.

5. CURIOSITY: Voice your interests/dislikes to your supervisor so that you can be assigned more tasks that you like.

6. Establish Your Goals: What do you want to achieve out of your summer internship? What are areas of improvement that you would like to cultivate?"