Internship

The summer has finally come to a close and I start back at school today. The summer was filled with lots of work, travel and learning. I had the opportunity to intern with a company call "The Bennion Group."

After interviewing at several other companies and turning down a few other offers, I decided to take an internship working at a consulting company in Provo, UT. As I started my search for an internship at the beginning of school, I said that I really did not care where I went as long as it was a large well known company, outside of Utah. As you can tell, I did not stick to my original plan. Not because I did not have offers from big companies outside of Utah, but because I decided to made my choice based off of the experience I would gain.

After speaking with other students about their internships, I am glad I made the decision I did. Although I did not intern for a large corporation outside of Utah, I was able to consult a HUGE corporation (ranked among the top 500 global companies.) In addition, working at a smaller organization allowed me to have a great deal of responsibility as well as gain some greatexperience.

The majority of my work was consulting for a corporate business incubator helping validate business ideas, test markets, develop new products, and help build business plans and go-to-market plans and strategies. We did this through business competitive intelligence, marketresearch, customer interviews, and internal and external analysis. In addition to consulting for other companies, I was also able to help with business development within the company and help prepare training and presentation material.

All in all, I was very happy with my decision to go with a small company and the skills andexperience I gained. I was still able to get experience in a large corporation but still have asignificant impact.

Now, I am excited to return to school for two more semesters and move forward with my career.