1. Based on your coursework and prior experiences, what has stood out most to you - positive or negative - about working in this organization? Do you feel this is likely to be common among other employers or more unique to your particular workplace, and why?
2. What do you consider to be the single most important thing you have learned during your internship experience, and why?
In responding to other students, compare their key experience and learning to yours.
(Do not use invidividual's names in your posts. Refer to their role or position only.)
The discussion room is The Big Picture. It asks you to reflect on your internship experience, with a focus on thinking about the larger organization beyond the specific project or department you are working with. This is an important thought process, since the IT profession is constantly changing. The notion of a distinct IT department is blurring tremendously as all of the functions of organizations are increasingly dependent on technology and thereby programmers, database analysts, security specialists, and network/server/storage engineers often find jobs in these non-IT functions. Marketing departments own most of the web presence. Sales departments are responsible for ecommerce. Manufacturing is responsible for process engineering and systems deployment. Finance and Human Resources run the administration functions using ERP systems. The opportunities for IT specialists are constantly growing and being reinvented all the time. As you proceed from success to success, albeit with challenges along the way, you will find yourselves in positions that weren't even thought of when you were in college.
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