How to Finish Your IT Internship

When it comes to internships, the purpose is to not only get real-world experience in your desired field, but also to learn how to be on a team and work with others, how to be managed, and most of all, what professionalism looks and feels like. Whether your internship was not what you expected, or was the most rewarding and valuable learning experience, how to close out your time is another stepping stone to becoming a well-rounded, valuable and hireable professional. Here are a few must-dos when you're wrapping up your internship.
Tie up loose ends.

In other words: Don’t leave your old company hanging with projects and agenda items. Finish up what you can, mark or note where you left off, and type up a status report on where all your projects currently are and probable next steps. Your supervisor may have been actively involved in your work during your internship or left you to your own devices. Either way, sharing the intel (and this includes passwords, file locations, important communications, client relations tidbits, etc.) demonstrates your organization and team player attitude.
Ask for feedback.

Asking for an exit interview will help you learn your strengths and areas of improvement, and provide some valuable context to the experience you just had. Also, from an HR POV, it shows that you are dedicated to improving your employee capital and are serious about improving your company’s experience and your own informal education.
Give honest yet constructive feedback.

Perhaps you felt a few steps in the onboarding process were confusing, or that interns had little direction. Perhaps you had hoped there would be a different way to communicate with other departments or hoped to see how programs were developed. All of it is helpful—if delivered properly and politely. Letting the HR department know of small things that could make a big difference would be helpful to their future internship program. Present the information graciously and without judgment, but framed as areas of improvement is not only helpful to the company, but good practice for you for learning to communicate constructive criticism in the future.
More Info: jobs that require comptia a+ certification

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DDoS Attack Mean for My Security?

You need to prepare and plan to manage a DDoS attack against your systems. You need to monitor, generate alerts, and quickly diagnose a DDoS attack in progress. The next step is shutting down the attack quickly without affecting your users. You can block the IP addresses using your Next-Gen Firewall, or close inbound traffic to the targeted system and failover to a backup. There are other response plans you can implement, make sure to have one. Some CDNs, like Cloudflare, also act as a reverse proxy which can further protect your WordPress site from DDoS attacks. An HTTP Flood attack, for example, is an application layer attack that targets a web server on the target and uses many fast HTTP requests to bring the server down. Think of it as pressing the refresh button in rapid-fire mode on your game controller. That kind of traffic from many thousands of computers at once will quickly drown the webserver. Who should consider using a CDN: Most websites can benefit from integrating a CDN
Read more

Profiling Hackers in the MITRE ATT&CK Navigator

Using the MITRE ATT&CK Navigator or similar tools, organizations can categorize attacks by specific threat groups and threat actors. It is even possible to profile the technologies and the procedures attackers use. In short, you will have a strong idea of the next move your opponents are going to make. Notice that each of the technologies is categorized into a version of the hacker lifecycle. The top of the page reads Initial access, Execution, Persistence, Privilege Escalation and so forth. These are the general steps that attackers take as they compromise a network. The MITRE ATT&CK Navigator then allows you to profile specific attack groups. Each group profiles an actual group of cyberattackers. Using this model, you can quickly identify how each group operates. Going back to my baseball analogy, imagine if you knew that a group of pitchers behaved a certain way. Now, you can profile that behavior and train your batters to best address how those pitchers are trying to defea
Read more

The Importance of Post-Attack Analysis

Comprehensive visibility into an organization’s network activity is essential not only to quickly combat DDoS threats, but also to enable compliance reporting and archive security event data that enables security audits and forensic analysis of past threats. Organizations can learn from past attacks to uncover hidden patterns of data and identify emerging vulnerabilities within the massive streams of security event data Without this level of visibility, it is impossible to determine how effectively an attack was mitigated and whether there were any false-positives which led to collateral damage that substantiates any service level agreement (SLA) claims. For over a decade, Corero has been providing state-of-the-art, highly-effective, automatic DDoS protection solutions for enterprise, hosting and service provider customers around the world. Our SmartWall®  DDoS mitigation solutions  protect on-premise, cloud, virtual and hybrid environments.   Moreover, cloud-based DDoS defenses a
Read more