Husker Internships: Cassidy's Business and Law Intern Experience

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Cassidy June, business and law major from Milford, Nebraska, talks with Assistant Dean Rachel Larson about her internship experiences at First State Bank Nebraska and Bruning Law Group, and how the College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln helped her get them. She minors in political science and management. June is also involved in Mock Trial and the Nebraska Business Honors Academy.

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[00:00:00.420]Hello, my name is Rachel Larson,
[00:00:02.400]and I'm the Assistant Dean
[00:00:03.540]of Academic and Career Development
[00:00:05.100]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business.
[00:00:07.980]One of the best parts of my job is working with students
[00:00:10.980]and their career paths after graduation
[00:00:13.350]and while they're in school as well.
[00:00:15.240]Today, I am joined by Cassidy June,
[00:00:17.640]who is here to tell us a little bit
[00:00:19.080]about her internship experiences
[00:00:20.670]while she's been a College of Business student.
[00:00:22.710]Welcome, Cassidy.
[00:00:23.787]Oh, thank you so much for having me.
[00:00:25.680]Of course. How are you doing?
[00:00:27.210]I'm doing pretty good.
[00:00:28.410]It's a Friday, so I can't complain.
[00:00:31.410]Just getting ready for the weekend.
[00:00:32.880]Excellent.
[00:00:33.750]Well, tell us a little bit about you.
[00:00:35.100]Where are you from? What are you majoring in?
[00:00:36.810]Yeah, so I'm from Milford, Nebraska.
[00:00:38.820]It's a smaller town, about 45 minutes outside of Lincoln,
[00:00:43.590]so not too far from home.
[00:00:45.090]I can go home if I want to and see my pets.
[00:00:47.550]Yeah.
[00:00:48.383]I am a Business and Law major
[00:00:50.640]with minors in Political Science and Management.
[00:00:53.790]And as a Business and Law major,
[00:00:55.410]it's one of our newest majors.
[00:00:56.760]And I know that you've had some pretty cool internships
[00:00:59.130]related to both business and law.
[00:01:01.050]Tell us a little bit about your internships
[00:01:02.670]and what you did as an intern.
[00:01:03.960]Oh, yeah, so I've had two
[00:01:05.820]that are related to the business law area so far.
[00:01:09.180]One of them was over the summer.
[00:01:11.100]I was an Audit and Risk Intern at First State Bank Nebraska
[00:01:15.900]during their like Summer Internship Program.
[00:01:18.750]And then right now,
[00:01:20.250]I am also a Legal Intern for Bruning Law Group,
[00:01:23.880]and that's a law firm in like Downtown Lincoln area.
[00:01:26.610]So, one internship that's very business-oriented,
[00:01:28.890]the other one that's more legal-oriented.
[00:01:30.720]Yes. Very good.
[00:01:31.553]I wanted to get like an idea
[00:01:33.810]of both the business side and the legal side,
[00:01:35.743]and that's what I did.
[00:01:37.140]What's a project that you're really proud of
[00:01:39.060]that you've been doing?
[00:01:39.893]Oh, yeah, so in my audit and risk internship at the bank,
[00:01:44.610]I did a lot of learning banking regulations
[00:01:47.610]and then figuring out how to go through our like loan files,
[00:01:51.240]our banking records,
[00:01:52.500]and make sure that we're in compliance
[00:01:54.090]with all the regulations
[00:01:55.380]that we need to be in compliance with.
[00:01:57.870]And then at my legal internship at the law firm,
[00:02:00.780]I do a lot of research on attorney general
[00:02:04.770]and gubernatorial races all throughout the country,
[00:02:07.950]and then I create databases for them
[00:02:09.690]and give them to the attorneys for them to use.
[00:02:12.630]How did you find these internships?
[00:02:14.820]Well, people always say it's about who you know,
[00:02:16.890]and I'll say that's very true for me.
[00:02:20.040]For the legal internship at the law firm,
[00:02:23.160]I actually knew someone from like my small town area.
[00:02:26.370]So they were in a small town similar to my small town,
[00:02:30.750]and I connected with an attorney at the law firm
[00:02:34.200]for a job shadow back in high school.
[00:02:36.840]And so when I came to the College of Business,
[00:02:39.540]I had to do this interview
[00:02:41.580]with someone from a field I wanted to go into.
[00:02:44.010]I reached out, and then she was impressed
[00:02:46.740]during that interview of her,
[00:02:48.600]and then said, "If you'd like to apply for an internship,
[00:02:52.170]go ahead, we'd love to have you."
[00:02:53.940]And so that's how I got that one.
[00:02:55.680]And then for the internship at the bank,
[00:02:59.910]what I did was my mom's college roommate
[00:03:03.630]posted on Facebook about the internship,
[00:03:06.300]and I said, "That's exactly what I wanna do."
[00:03:08.610]And then I applied for it,
[00:03:10.290]and had an interview, and received it.
[00:03:12.450]So you're really using your hidden network
[00:03:14.010]and your networking skills
[00:03:14.970]pretty well. Yes.
[00:03:15.803]Well, and you mentioned the informational interview
[00:03:18.000]and networking as well.
[00:03:19.440]And those are part
[00:03:20.760]of our Professional Enhancement Program courses, or PrEP,
[00:03:23.400]what we call for short here in the College of Business.
[00:03:26.160]So, those are four one credit hour pass,
[00:03:28.200]no pass classes that are required
[00:03:29.910]of all College of Business students
[00:03:31.620]just to make sure that they are prepared,
[00:03:33.810]they're confident, professional, and connected
[00:03:35.820]for internships and then life after graduation.
[00:03:38.730]So in addition to the networking
[00:03:42.630]and the informational interview,
[00:03:44.520]what are some things that you've learned
[00:03:45.630]in your Professional Enhancement Program courses
[00:03:47.580]that helped you when searching for
[00:03:49.020]and applying for your internships?
[00:03:50.970]Well, back in the first one of those courses,
[00:03:53.070]I know I had a lot of help developing my resume.
[00:03:56.580]I had just come from high school,
[00:03:57.960]and so my entire resume
[00:03:59.220]was all these high school involvements.
[00:04:01.380]And then when I got to college,
[00:04:02.580]I was a little nervous 'cause I was like,
[00:04:04.380]I don't know what people are looking for,
[00:04:06.510]how exactly to build a resume
[00:04:08.160]when I don't have the most experience in college so far.
[00:04:11.970]And so I worked a lot throughout those courses
[00:04:14.250]on building that resume, getting feedback,
[00:04:16.680]and tailoring it to what we did.
[00:04:20.340]And then also, there's a lot of mock interviews
[00:04:23.250]that helped me develop my skills,
[00:04:26.040]just being able to sit down and talk to people.
[00:04:28.650]I was really nervous during them for the class,
[00:04:30.810]but I actually was very grateful eventually
[00:04:33.960]when I did an interview for my audit at risk internship.
[00:04:38.040]I walked in, and there was like a panel of people
[00:04:40.896]who were waiting to like have an interview with me.
[00:04:43.740]And without those experiences,
[00:04:45.150]I don't think I would've been as confident
[00:04:47.400]and comfortable going into that.
[00:04:49.020]Yeah.
[00:04:49.853]When you mentioned interview and talking to people,
[00:04:52.680]and I know you're part of the mock trial group
[00:04:54.660]here on campus,
[00:04:55.740]so how has that experience
[00:04:57.150]in your other extracurricular activities
[00:04:59.310]helped you in your internships?
[00:05:01.230]Well, yeah, the biggest thing it's taught me
[00:05:03.510]is to take initiative in all the work I'm doing.
[00:05:06.690]I joined mock trial back in freshman year,
[00:05:08.850]just trying to make connections
[00:05:10.620]and get a little bit into the legal side of things.
[00:05:13.440]And now, I've just taken on so many leadership roles
[00:05:16.560]that I've learned how to like develop myself
[00:05:18.480]to become a better leader and really push things forward.
[00:05:22.080]One of the biggest things I did was last year,
[00:05:23.997]I was Tournament Director
[00:05:25.890]and so we hosted a tournament at the UNL College of Law,
[00:05:28.860]and it was wild to me
[00:05:30.210]because we were hosting teams all across the country.
[00:05:33.270]There was a point I was emailing someone in Georgia
[00:05:35.670]trying to get them to come to our tournament in Nebraska,
[00:05:39.210]and then this year as president,
[00:05:40.650]I've done a lot more of the developing
[00:05:42.180]on the backside of things.
[00:05:43.710]So taking strategic goals
[00:05:45.360]and what we wanna learn throughout the year
[00:05:46.920]and trying to implement them and teaching our new students.
[00:05:51.090]Great, so a lot of good initiative
[00:05:52.470]probably as well. Yes.
[00:05:53.880]So, thinking about your College of Business courses,
[00:05:57.270]what have you taken thus far
[00:05:58.770]that has helped you on your internship path
[00:06:01.680]or has really given you some good knowledge and skills
[00:06:04.170]that you've utilized as an intern?
[00:06:06.420]Well, I've always been a writer.
[00:06:07.770]That's been one of my biggest passions.
[00:06:10.740]But I've been really grateful
[00:06:12.660]to my like freshman business writing class.
[00:06:15.780]I didn't realize how like efficient you need to be sometimes
[00:06:18.960]when writing reports.
[00:06:20.880]When I was an audit risk intern, we had to write reports of,
[00:06:24.630]you know, the audits that we completed,
[00:06:26.520]what we conducted and our findings.
[00:06:29.190]When I sat down to write that,
[00:06:30.840]I was, at first, just like completely lost
[00:06:33.750]'cause I'd never done it before.
[00:06:35.430]And then I realized a lot of the skills
[00:06:36.820]that they had taught me in that class,
[00:06:38.970]I actually transferred
[00:06:40.110]to being able to write a more efficient report
[00:06:42.690]than I think otherwise,
[00:06:44.610]and so that's been very helpful.
[00:06:46.860]And I know that good communication skills,
[00:06:49.170]whether they're verbal or written,
[00:06:50.490]are extremely important in a lot of business fields,
[00:06:53.100]but probably especially for business and law as well.
[00:06:55.530]Yes it has.
[00:06:56.730]Even on the legal side of things,
[00:06:58.950]a lot of the legal world is just,
[00:07:02.070]you know, how well you can talk to people,
[00:07:04.260]how well you make your arguments,
[00:07:06.060]and getting a point across very clear and efficiently.
[00:07:09.030]So it's been very helpful.
[00:07:10.500]Excellent.
[00:07:11.580]So, what skills did you develop as an intern
[00:07:14.820]that you are hoping to utilize
[00:07:16.290]in your future career or graduation,
[00:07:19.050]post-graduation opportunities?
[00:07:21.120]I think the biggest skill I've taken away
[00:07:23.190]is being more detail-oriented
[00:07:25.860]and not getting so distracted by my surroundings.
[00:07:29.280]When I was like pouring through all these documents,
[00:07:31.980]trying to check for compliance,
[00:07:33.870]I realized I couldn't just like skim this quickly
[00:07:36.990]and then like go through the next one to get done faster.
[00:07:40.350]There's a lot of having to like check all the details,
[00:07:43.770]create plans,
[00:07:44.820]to make sure that you're covering everything you need to do
[00:07:48.090]and then holding yourself accountable.
[00:07:50.190]And so that was very eye-opening and helpful to me.
[00:07:54.000]And I know even now,
[00:07:55.050]when I'm going into like my other internship
[00:07:58.200]at the law firm,
[00:07:59.070]I now know when I'm redoing research,
[00:08:01.890]I know what to look for
[00:08:03.150]and to double-check everything I find.
[00:08:05.070]That's great.
[00:08:06.120]So, what's next for you?
[00:08:08.160]Well, right now, I am actually working
[00:08:10.560]on figuring out the LSATs and trying to apply to law school.
[00:08:15.420]I am a junior right now,
[00:08:17.040]so getting started on that studying
[00:08:19.500]and hopefully to take it next summer,
[00:08:21.600]and then hopefully to go to law school,
[00:08:23.220]and eventually employment law.
[00:08:25.260]Very good.
[00:08:26.093]Well, we're so excited to have you
[00:08:28.110]for another couple years here
[00:08:29.867]at the University of Nebraska and in the College of Business
[00:08:32.190]because you're just an outstanding student leader
[00:08:34.170]and one that has already had two fabulous internships,
[00:08:37.080]and I know you're gonna do even more before you graduate.
[00:08:39.510]So, thank you so much for joining us, Cassidy.
[00:08:41.906]Thank you so much for having me.
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