Sabrina Flynn, who majored in Business Administration & Management with a minor in Marketing, graduated in December with a co-op, an internship, and an externship on her resume. Her impressive amount of experience will help to prepare her for a career in the business world and give her a competitive edge as well as connections in her search for a job after graduation.

    Sabrina started with a marketing co-op with the Pittsburgh Steelers consisting of working home games of the 2014 season, the Steelers Fashion Show, and the Steelers Alumni Weekend. She then applied for a Marketing Internship position with the Steelers the following spring, interviewed for the position, and was offered the internship. She is currently doing a Human Resources Externship at UPMC where she says that a typical day could include attending a seminar or workshop, shadowing her supervisor in meetings, working on projects she has been assigned, and researching recruitment events. She obtained this externship by attending the UPMC All Access Day. She applied for the position prior to attending the event, and then at the event she introduced herself to the recruiter hiring for the position, then interviewed for the position and was offered the externship.

   She says that her internship experiences “really gave [her] a taste of the real world and how important it is to get experience while you’re in college.”

Since Sabrina’s internship experiences have been in both marketing and human resources, she has gotten to experience different aspects of the business field and figure out what she enjoys the most and wants to pursue after graduation. She says that her internship experiences have helped her “grow personally by letting [her] see firsthand different types of fields in the business world, and figuring out what is the best career path for [her].”

  Sabrina’s internships have prepared her for a career in her field by giving her new skills to build upon her resume as well as connections and networking opportunities. Her internships have also prepared her for the professional world as a whole by teaching her effective time management skills and how to get all of her internship assignments completed as well as her school assignments.

  She utilized some of the many resources available in the Internship Center and the Career & Professional Development Center, saying “both of these offices have helped me tremendously in obtaining internships, building my resume, and improving my interviewing skills.”

    The Internship Center helped Sabrina by teaching her how to search for internships on InternLink and other sources, and teaching her the importance of gaining internship experience throughout college to help transition into a career.

  Sabrina also worked at the Career & Professional Development Center, which helped her to build upon her resume and improve her interviewing skills by taking advantage of the mock interview service offered there. Sabrina advises students interested in obtaining internships to use the services provided by the Internship Center and the Career & Professional Development Center on campus.