
Eva C. Garloff
Young Professional
My Internship
at Allen Hospital
May|01
May |What I thought I knew
And so it begins. My first response to my professor about my initial week went a little like this "This week at Allen Hospital I worked four hours, starting next week my time there will increase and I hope to start working on my projects. I'm currently doing more human resource jobs, which is fine because I do enjoy it. However I am excited to get some more hands on practice with more of my major assignments." The previous interns warned me that it would be fast paced and everything would come at once... it did. And what I thought I knew I didn't and what I didn't know I thought I did. Excel.. my skills are growing, along with using programs like sharepoint. I'm really excited to learn how to interview people.
June|02 Skipping Tutorials
June is almost over and the phrase of the week is phased out. My weekly homeowork for my professor consisted of "this week at Allen Hospital I worked just over twenty hours. I conducted two phone interviews for potential employees at Allen, as well as reference calls. I really enjoyed talking to these applicants and asking those questions that I've practiced answering myself. I also set up all the phone interviews for the week between myself and another intern. We utilized the share drive for Allen that breaks down into a Human Resources folder and even further to a folder for interns. They hosted a meeting in the conference room where they place the interns and while they were in there I happened to complete all the tasks I could at the front desk and then proceeded to organize my email. I broke everything into folders and it's been so easy to find things now. I have my personal email broke up into folders but having the ability to do it at Allen has been really useful since Monday. When the storm happened this week the hospital lost power and was on back up generators. It was interesting to see how work continued but was different. The importance of certain tasks altered. We are almost caught up on filing and they are switching to the new online system this week. Where most of the tasks we are currently doing will be online. The future interns for the Human Resources department will be those studying to be in Human Resources. The tasks that I'm doing currently are slowly being filtered out. Which is cool to see it happen but sad at the same time.. Slowly being fazed out, although it's not my job, still feels weird and sad." I'm excited for the future of the department both for interns and the full time employees but .. man haha it's bumming to be phased out no matter what the reason is.
July |03 Warp Speed
Wraping up my internship at warp speed. A quick recap and summary of everything I've done.
- Conducted reference checks
- Conducted phone interviews
- Screened applicants
- Conducted background checks
- Filed confidential employee information
- FIled non-confidential employee information
- Edited documents for any and all in the department
- Worked cooperatively with the other interns to assist the staff within the department
- Created badges for volunteers, contract workers, and employees
- Assisted in creating a new manual for future interns (available to view upon request)
Most importantly what I learned
- You don't know it all.. I don't.
- Microsoft Office.. Catch up on it.
- This has been one of the most memorable summers in a long time. Thank you.
June|02
July|03