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How A Productive

Summer Can Impact

Your JobBrittany Shaffer

Speech Class

The Need

S It’s hard to get a job

S Unemployment Rate 7.7%

BLS (2013)

S There’s only so much you can

do at school

S “Expected that successful

students must be involved in

time consuming obligations

and heavy course load.”

Novak (2011)

A Solution: Find Internships

S Internships

S Intern with a widely

recognized brand. Schawbel

(2010)

S Research good places to

work! See Workplace

Dynamics List online (2013)

A Solution: Volunteer

S Good for gaining network

connections. (Driscoll, 2011)

S Look for organizations related

to your field.

S Teach camps for middle

schoolers or high schoolers

A Solution: Learning

S Students may perform better

and learn more in summer

classes., according to College

Parents of America.

S Teach yourself some new skills

S Use library books

S Find online courses via

Udemy and Coursera

Counterargument #1

S Students want to relax after a

busy year!!

S By taking classes/being

productive over the summer, it

can take pressure off the school

year and make it less stressful.

Counterargument #2

S Student have have to work and

make money to pay for school!

S The number of paid internships

is 60% higher than unpaid

ones. O’Conner (2012)

Imagine...

S Sitting in an interview and having

awesome answers when your

interviewer asks you what you did

with your summers.

S Want that to be you? Start

planning now.

S Not to late to think about what

you can do, even for this

summer.

S Brainstorm with parents/friends.

S Audience Analysis. (April 2013) In class survey.

S Driscoll, E. (2011, March 25). What College Students Should Do During Summer Break. In Fox Business. Retrieved March 29, 2013,

S Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey (2013, March 29). In U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved March 29, 2013

S Novak, I. (2011, April 27). America the Exhausted. In The State Press. Retrieved March 29, 2013,

S O'Connor, C. (2012, August 21). The Art of Getting a Paid Internship. In Boston. Retrieved March 29, 2013,

S Schawbel, D. (2010). Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future. New York, NY: Kaplan Publishing

S Should My College Student Consider Summer Classes?. (n.d.). In College Parents of America. Retrieved March 29, 2013

S Workplace Dynamics. (2013). National Top 50 Workplaces 2013. In Top 50 Workplaces. Retrieved March 29, 2013

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