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OK I hope you are sitting down for this. I am now an intern. Oh my God. I kept seeing the brick wall to my face. No amount of 60 second commercials, revamping of the resume, sending out said resume or calling to introduce myself to people will beat this experience.

I am interning at Horsburgh & Scott a manufacturing company in Cleveland.

I met Monica Priester at a SHRM meeting. I just started talking to her and before she left she gave me her card. I decided to call her and find out how she came to be in the HR field. I went to her office and we talked for about one hour. I emailed her to thank her and decided to ask if she needed an intern, she said yes.

Along with her assistant LaShanda, we will have three projects to finish:

• Read over the Employee Manual and give my outside opinion.
• Organize Human Resources Room
• Put together re-enrollment forms.

She asked me what I wanted to learn. I told her I wanted to learn the HR tasks that come up most often ion job descriptions. Tasks such as:

• FMLA
• BWC
• Benefits

I just want a well rounded education. I want to be able to apply what I learned in my class to the actual task.