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Reflecting back on the many incredible opportunities I was given in 2019 encourages me to further think about what I look for in an employer and the career path I will choose to go down. Opting to complete an industrial placement in my third year of university has allowed me to explore industries that IContinue reading “2019 Reflection”

Northeastern University is an institution known for their international experiences including exchanges, co-ops and language programs.  “Northeastern suggests that international students make up about 32.8% of the student body” (Factual, 2018) In particular completing my IP in the NUGlobal office, only working with international students, it has allowed me to gain an insight into theContinue reading “Blog 16”

As the holidays approach our team has their annual Christmas staff retreat at the Northeastern downtown campus in the Hilton Hotel. The aim of this retreat is to review and discuss the programs progress from the year. Faculty, Advisors, Director, Assistant director and the operations team all join together for this retreat. Throughout the dayContinue reading “Blog 15”

As my placement continues, I am gaining more knowledge and skills about the higher education field, therefore, my responsibilities have increased through informal learning. For example, I have been given the referral exam to organise and proctor every month. The referral exam is an English language test for Northeastern’s college of professional studies applicants. DetailsContinue reading “Blog 14”

As the recruitment and selection process continues, I have been kept very involved by my superiors. I have been able to consolidate my knowledge from L1 and L2 of university involving this procedure and apply it into the practical workplace. There were 4 applicants that were interviewed, and notes were taken on all applicants (seeContinue reading “Blog 13”

In recent weeks the Assistant Director of operations position has opened up in our office and therefore the recruitment and selection process has started. Throughout my studies at GCU I have had many opportunities to become familiar with this process and thus being able to fulfil both IP objective 5: “Relate, in consultation with experiencedContinue reading “Blog 12”

At the start of my placement at Northeastern University I was approached by one of my colleagues about an upcoming long term project of the university. The initiative is called “Human Library” and through this already exiting initiative we are looking to introduce the event to Northeastern’s annual calendar. Throughout the last few months I have beenContinue reading “Blog 11”

Northeastern University is a huge institution and therefore has many individual logos according to different disciplines and areas of the university. As one of my main responsibilities I have to create different posters, newsletters and flyers for various events in our department. Each piece of multi media must include the Northeastern logo, however, deciding which oneContinue reading “Blog 10”

One of my main responsibilities in the office is to order textbooks and desk copies for the faculty. This responsibility comes with its benefits and challenges as shown below.  One of the main challenges of this responsibility is textbook order quantity, each semester textbooks will need to be ordered for students however it is extremely difficultContinue reading “Blog 9”

As the students start the academic semester, we organize a field trip to Plymouth Plantation in conjunction with their sociology of Boston. Through feedback from previous cohorts it has been suggested that this trip is extremely useful and a great cultural experience for the international students. When at Plymouth the students are able to interactContinue reading “Blog 8”