Hello, Hello.

Hello working world, hello senior year. After this summer, I feel better prepared going into my senior year with confidence and knowledge that no one else will have. I know I’ll be ready to jump right into the working world and hit the ground running. I think you can all read into my internship experiences my reading my other blogs but I’ll take this time to talk about the benefit of our regional project and why it makes me feel so good about saying ‘hello’.

The SalesForce project gave me intangible skills that I can carry to any new adventure in life, school, or work. I now know how to pick up the phone, do my best sales pitch, and get rejected without skipping a beat. (I can’t imagine how much this will help me recover after a bad attempt at picking up a girl on campus) I know how to deal with success and how to deal with failure. I’m confident in presenting myself and my product with a professional and personal touch. I feel prepared to meet deadlines, work as a team, and even compete in a friendly nature.

Most importantly, I’ve gained a great amount of experience in managing my time, and my resources. The SF project forced me to prioritize my projects, and use my great amount of resources around the office to get ahead. I had to find a friendly co-worker or two to assist me with the project and keep me on the right track. I had to put other, sometimes more preferable, projects aside so I could be ready and prepared to share my updates on the Thursday conference call.

These sorts of skills are transferable in so many aspects of my future and I look forward to utilizing them.

-TJ 

I encourage everyone to go back to all their posts and write a signature at the end so we can tell who wrote it. Without that some of these ambiguous posts will go unacredited. It takes 30 seconds. Do it.

-TJ

Tomorrow is the last day of the internship!  Oh how the time has flown!  I have been having the time of my life learning from and working with everybody here, and I’m very excited to have been offered the opportunity to work part time starting on Monday and throughout the school year!  Among Oxy’s many many strengths, it is also located right down the street from Gallagher!

So, even though I’ll be back on Monday, the end of this program is still a significant milestone for me.  Over the past nine weeks, I have learned so much, not only about insurance, but about myself and my future.  I was always afraid that leaving Oxy would mean leaving a nurturing community which I love, but I’ve found at Gallagher that going corporate does not have to mean leaving that community behind.

- Anna

It’s absolutely amazing that nine weeks have already flown by.  It feels like we were just in Itasca getting to know everyone!  I’ve really enjoyed working on different projects in the SF and Lafayette offices, and working on our regional intern project.  It was great working with everyone and hearing how everyone’s experiences have been similar, and how they have been different.  It’s pretty crazy that we’re at the end of this program.  I can honestly say that I have gotten a lot out of this internship, and like they told us in Itasca, this wasn’t “just another summer job”.

Best of luck to everyone!

-Melanie

Today is the second to last day of our internship and man has it flown by.  I guess that’s a good thing, because it shows that we all stayed busy and had some fun learning the industry. 

I have to present a new niche today to the BSD and GBS producers and branch managers.  This is my “final” for the internship.  This is the last chance I get to really impress and show what I have learned these past 9 weeks.  I think that my presentation and the information I have gathered could be beneficial to the producers in the branch, so I am looking forward to presenting. 

I look forward to hearing all the success we all had on our regional project in a few minutes.  By the way Jura has saying how good we have all done, it sounds like to me that we have surpassed the previous interns.  GO 09 interns!!!

- Kevin