After more than three weeks of searching, sending resumes and cover letters to many internship sites, I have finally acquired an internship for CBS 5 / KPIX's TV show "Eye On The Bay" and I will begin my internship on next Tuesday.
For me, it is such a big milestone because I have moved one step ahead for my career path. In the mean time, as I have found my internship, the searching of internships has also come to an end, so what I'm now focusing is my current internship, I will work hard, utilize my strengths and get my job done. Working in a TV station a great opportunity for me to gain a lot of experience, now I got it, I will not let my other potential opportunities to go away.
Speaking of my search for internship, I can say it didn't go very well at first. About one week before the new semester began, I started sending out cover letters and resumes to my college's own TV station EATV, as well as some other internship sites. However, at the moment, I really wanted to focus an internship within my college rather than an off-campus internship, so I didn't send resumes and cover letters to those internship sites. One week later, EATV Program Director, who is also an instructor for video production, contacted me to see if I had time to be interview in the following week, then I set up an interview appointment with him in the afternoon on August 26.
At that time, I was thinking that I could get that internship easily because I have many required experience and skills, on the other hand, I was also thinking that I may not quite ready for working off-campus. However, what you want doesn't equal to what you get. When I came to the interview that day, I felt so tense and I forgot anything that I wanted to tell Arthur, when Arthur asked me the questions, I couldn't even answered them clearly because I was so nervous. Arthur then told me that his station could only accept two interns this semester and each of them could only work for few hours a week. He said because of the short budget, he couldn't offer many hours to his interns. At the end of the interview, Arthur suggested me to gain real experience by working in the video production sites or TV stations, he told me that I should go out and explore the world by interning in TV stations rather than in my college. Then he showed me some listings of TV stations that were accepting interns. He told me to send resumes and cover letters to different TV stations, and I still remember what he told me when I left. He said the real meaning of internship is not about the money, but it is about the experience that can lead to the future job, $9 a hour looks good for some, but we have to think of long-term goal, the long-term goal is to find a real job.
After that night, I started thinking what Arthur said may be true, I have to have real working experience, and the best way to get those experience is to work in a TV station. Therefore, I began to send out resumes and cover letters to many Bay Area's TV stations, some organizations and companies, as well as some video production firms. Some of them responded me and asked if I could go for interviews, but many of them didn't get back to me at all.
But the things began to change. One week ago, Cassandra from the KPIX / CBS 5 TV station sent me an email if I was interested to come for an interview for the "Eye On The Bay" internship, then I set up an appointment with her on September 14 at 10:30 am, which was yesterday.
I came to the KPIX / CBS5 TV station around 10:30 am. Besides myself, two other new interns Rachel and Honeybee (what a lovely name!) were also interviewed at the same time. The interview was going really good, I think it's more like a discussion rather than a formal interview. Cassandra, the lady who conducted the interview for all three of us, asked us to sit together and shared something about ourselves, what do we want to do as an intern, and what kind of skills we want to acquire on the completion of the internship. Then Cassandra told us that she was also started as an intern, and she also told us something important that we have to know and understand them. We also asked some questions about the program and specifically what the general duties are, and Cassandra answered them very clearly and understandable. After about half-an-hour of interview, Cassandra took all three of us for a tour around the station. First we toured the intern working area, and we met so many great producers and editors and other great people for "Eye On The Bay", and of course, one the hosts Liam Mayclem. Then Cassandra took us to other departments in the station like the News Department, the Sales Department, the Business Department, just to name a few. Cassandra then brought us to Don's office, he is person who makes identification card for the interns. He asked each of us to sit down and took a "passport-style" picture, then we got our IDs few minutes later.
After we got our intern ID cards, we are officially the interns for "Eye On The Bay", we will start working next week. My shifts will be Tuesdays and Thursday from 9am - 5pm, so my first day will be on next Tuesday. I'm getting really excited!
Although there may be a lot of difficulties and obstacles when I work as an intern, I believe I can overcome much of them.
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