Module 3: Goals
Activity: Brainstorming Personal and Professional Goals
Background
Most internship descriptions will define an intern's proposed responsibilities and project areas. These differ from an intern's individual development goals. While responsibilities are assigned, individual development goals are areas that an intern deliberately chooses to focus on for personal and professional benefit.
H. Frederick Sweitzer and Mary A. King of The Successful Internship: Personal, Professional, and Civic Development in Experiential Learning (Fourth Edition) suggest spreading goals across domains and dimensions:
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Sample Goals
Here is an example set of goals from an instructional design intern that uses the domains and dimensions from above. Notice that it includes a range of goal types, from broad to specific. These goals are intended to be revisited throughout the internship experience and can be amended or changed if responsibilities or interests shift.
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