Summer Intern Resources for Career Development
- Start by listening to this 5-minute song that’s full of wise life and career advice called Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen by Baz Luhrmann, which I used to listen to on repeat while studying in college and grad school
- If you need help finding your next full-time job, then browse these open roles, job boards, and resume/cover letter templates
- If you are considering going to any type of graduate school, then I strongly recommend you gain at least 2 years of professional experience before going back to school and read through my MBA Advice
- If you are interested in a career path that involves mergers and acquisitions (M&A), then save a copy of this M&A Venture Scorecard Framework and M&A Due Diligence Checklist
- If you are interested in a career path that involves clean tech or climate, then browse this massive list of resources on So You Want to Work in Climate
- If you are interested in a career path that involves software engineering, then read all of my COSC 355 Software Engineering Notes because the entire class was centered around lessons from the book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Fred Brooks
- If you are curious about personal investing, then read the advice and book recommendations from my “smart money guy” friends Re: Advice for College Freshman to Learn About Investing
- If you are curious about lifestyle investing and passive income streams, then read The Lifestyle Investor by Justin Donald and the Lifestyle Investor PDF Resources
- If you want to better understand how your CliftonStrengths map to career paths, then read these articles on How to Improve Your Career Development and Does a Specific Career Best Match My CliftonStrengths Results?
- If you want to lift others up as you advance in your career, then read this article on 10 Competencies to Lift Others Up
- If you want to feel better job satisfaction, then watch this 5-minute video about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for customers, employees, and investors and pay attention to the three levels for employees to make sure your needs are met
- If you want to better manage your schedule, then read this post on Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
- If you want to work at Deloitte, then watch this Interview with Prof Malloy About Deloitte Experience
- If you want to build a career in product management, then read these product management materials
- If you want to work in private equity, then follow Codie Sanchez on all the social media platforms
- If you want to retire early, then learn about Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE)
- If you want to learn how to automate and delegate your work, then review Prof Malloy’s Reclaim Your Freedom and Time by Delegating and Automating Your Business at DC Startup Week Slides
Summer Intern Resources for Role-Specific Upskilling
If you are in a role that needs…
- To create Excel spreadsheets, then study these Excel cheat sheet resources, watch these Excel Wizard in Minutes Videos, play with these Excel Exercises, or complete these Excel video training from Microsoft
- To create PowerPoint slides, then save copies of these PowerPoint templates and bookmark SlidesGo.com for more Google Slides templates
- To conduct research on competitor analysis, then save a copy of this Example Competitor Analysis to leverage the column structure for analyzing competitors of your company
- To do customer discovery interviews or plan to start your own company in the future, make sure you leverage this customer discovery toolkit
- To map out your customer’s journey, then save a copy of this Customer Journey Map Template
- To improve the company’s messaging and brand, then collaborate with your colleagues to complete the two worksheets to Audit Your Brand to Transform Your Marketing
- To prepare meeting agendas, then make copies of these meeting agenda templates
- To work with databases, then read all of the slides from COSC 380 Intro to Databases
- To design and implement growth marketing strategies, then explore Velocity Growth training courses
- To communicate with people from different backgrounds, then read this book summary on So What? How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience
- To do anything in sales or marketing, then watch all of Alex Hormozi’s Training Videos from $100M Leads and $100M Offers
- To work in sales or business development, then consume all of the If Cash Is King, Then Sales Is Queen Content
- To get started as a freelancer, then download these Freelancer Templates
- To leverage SEO, then review these SEO Resources
Networking Events by City
- Virtual
- CONNECTpreneur (recurring monthly events)
- Washington, DC
- Baltimore, MD
- BMore Tech Connect is designed to bring the network and resources of Baltimore’s tech community into an easy-to-access portal for anyone seeking information about the local tech scene and its opportunities
- Eventbrite Networking Events in MD
- New York, NY
- Hartford, CT
- Orlando, FL
- Dallas, TX
- If you are looking for someone to conduct an informational interview with, check out the Malloy Executives on Pick My Brain
Advice for Summer Interns
- Relationships matter most in finding work and play that you love
- Re-roll every aspect of your life (except your spouse) every 3-5 years
- To prevent mentoring relationships from feeling one way, you can ask your mentor “How can I help you?” in every interaction and follow up to tell them how their advice and insights made a positive impact on you
- 25 years with 4 quarters = 100 quarters, which means you can do nothing productive toward your goals for 3-month periods and still have a successful life