Your Final Intership Hours
Saying Goodbye
Traveling the Last Mile
"I've been taking in as much information as I can before "it's all over" and have been concerned with career goals. The past couple of weeks have just been filled with an overwhelming amount of anxieties and mixed emotions" -Student Reflection
Identifying and Dealing with Unfinished Business
Issues with supervisors, with co-workers, with clients if you have them, and with yourself that have been present for some time but that often take on added urgency as the internship draws to a close
Identifying and Expressing Feelings
You may find strong feelings about supervisors, peers, and others coming to the surface. It may or may not be appropriate to express these feelings directly to the person who has engendered them. At least find someone to express those feelings too.
Planning for the future
Finally, you need to make future plans for the work you have been doing, for the relationships you have developed, and for yourself.
Closure with your supervisors
- The formal phase: final evaluation with the site supervisor and perhaps an evaluation of that supervisor by the intern as well
- The informal phase: the supervisory relationship is processed and discussed, as are the feelings about the ending of that relationship
The steps of closing an internship
- The final evaluation
- preparing for the final conference
- The final conference
- Feedback for the supervisor
- Ending the supervisory Relationship
You're Done! Good Luck!
Randee Barrett
Johanna Bisard
Amy Simon