Husker Internships: Mollie's International Business Intern Experience

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Mollie Fee, international business major from Omaha, Nebraska, talks with Assistant Dean Rachel Larson about her internship experience at CareerOS in Barcelona, Spain, and how the College of Business at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln helped her get it. As part of her international business major, she studied abroad at IAU in Spain and selected a supply chain management focus for her coursework. Mollie served as a peer mentor to international students and is involved in Pi Beta Phi sorority.

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[00:00:00.480]Hello, my name is Rachel Larson
[00:00:02.530]and I'm the Assistant Dean of
[00:00:03.810]Academic and Career Development
[00:00:05.200]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[00:00:06.870]College of Business. Part of my
[00:00:08.970]role is to work with students
[00:00:10.640]and their career paths and so I'm
[00:00:12.570]so excited to have Molly Fee
[00:00:14.160]join us today to share a little
[00:00:15.760]bit about her internship
[00:00:16.920]experience. Welcome, Molly. Hi,
[00:00:18.850]thank you so much for having me.
[00:00:20.400]Well,
[00:00:20.640]thanks for joining us. Yeah. So
[00:00:22.490]let's start out by telling me a
[00:00:24.010]little bit about you. What's
[00:00:25.590]your
[00:00:25.680]major? Where are you from? I'm
[00:00:27.820]from Omaha, Nebraska. I'm an
[00:00:29.920]international business major
[00:00:31.200]and I have a focus in supply
[00:00:32.520]chain management. Excellent.
[00:00:34.320]And so our international
[00:00:35.580]business
[00:00:36.080]majors have to have a focus
[00:00:37.330]area, right? So and you chose
[00:00:38.870]supply chain management? Yes,
[00:00:40.640]I did and I love it so much. I
[00:00:42.370]was able to have a course that
[00:00:44.110]really solidified that decision
[00:00:45.920]for me. It was decision making
[00:00:47.660]models. It is a supply chain
[00:00:49.280]course here at the university
[00:00:50.880]and
[00:00:51.120]it totally changed my outlook
[00:00:53.180]on supply chain and I've
[00:00:54.810]learned so much.
[00:00:55.680]And I've learned so much in my
[00:00:56.730]time here and that course just
[00:00:57.850]really sticks out to me.
[00:00:58.800]Well, and I know as an
[00:00:59.700]international business major,
[00:01:01.190]students are required to not
[00:01:03.200]only study
[00:01:03.680]abroad but also do an
[00:01:04.780]internship experience and you
[00:01:06.460]got a chance to combine those
[00:01:08.000]into one, right?
[00:01:09.120]I did. So over the summer, I
[00:01:10.880]spent two months in Barcelona.
[00:01:12.960]I was a product development
[00:01:14.800]intern for
[00:01:16.080]CareerOS, which is a tech
[00:01:18.070]startup and it's a networking
[00:01:20.400]website that's
[00:01:21.840]aimed at college students and
[00:01:23.650]helping them develop their
[00:01:24.920]networking skills.
[00:01:25.680]So I was able to conduct
[00:01:27.850]interviews and gather feedback
[00:01:30.380]from a ton of students over
[00:01:32.400]what they
[00:01:32.720]thought of the beta testing of
[00:01:34.100]this website. And so it was
[00:01:35.410]really great to kind of immerse
[00:01:37.760]myself
[00:01:38.320]into their working culture and
[00:01:40.240]then also gain valuable
[00:01:41.700]experience.
[00:01:42.720]Yeah. Well, and I know that a
[00:01:44.450]lot of our students will
[00:01:45.840]network or do handshake to find
[00:01:47.520]their
[00:01:47.760]internship. But since yours was
[00:01:49.330]abroad, you had a little bit
[00:01:50.630]different process for finding
[00:01:52.000]your
[00:01:52.240]internship. Yes. So the
[00:01:54.030]university offered
[00:01:55.680]a study abroad program that is
[00:01:57.560]eight weeks long and it is one
[00:01:59.390]course and then one internship.
[00:02:01.680]So I applied for this program
[00:02:04.380]and I had to go through four
[00:02:06.820]rounds of interviews, I believe,
[00:02:09.200]and
[00:02:09.520]you get a list of however many
[00:02:12.090]companies are working with the
[00:02:14.880]university over there and you
[00:02:16.800]get to kind of narrow it down
[00:02:18.410]and see which fits best for you.
[00:02:20.400]And if you and the company
[00:02:21.920]find a mutual connection, then
[00:02:23.750]you start your internship.
[00:02:25.680]And so it was it was a
[00:02:27.160]definitely unique process, but
[00:02:29.040]it was
[00:02:29.360]it was so great. And it
[00:02:30.840]definitely helped me with my
[00:02:32.610]internship search.
[00:02:34.080]That's great. Well, and since
[00:02:35.840]your internship had to do with
[00:02:37.850]networking and interviewing,
[00:02:39.520]you've already had some of that
[00:02:40.750]experience through the College
[00:02:42.000]of Business Professional
[00:02:42.800]Enhancement Program courses. So
[00:02:44.770]the College of Business has
[00:02:46.320]what's called our PrEP courses
[00:02:47.760]or
[00:02:47.920]professional enhancement
[00:02:49.170]program, which are a series of
[00:02:50.740]four classes that students are
[00:02:52.080]required
[00:02:52.480]to take towards learning about
[00:02:53.650]themselves. And then they also
[00:02:53.940]have a series of four classes
[00:02:54.160]that
[00:02:54.160]learning about themselves, how
[00:02:56.120]to find internships and jobs
[00:02:57.800]and just kind of life after
[00:02:59.340]college.
[00:03:00.080]So tell us a little bit about
[00:03:02.210]how those classes
[00:03:03.680]have helped you not only find
[00:03:04.770]your internship, but in your
[00:03:05.880]internship.
[00:03:06.560]They helped me so much. I feel
[00:03:09.040]like it's been super helpful,
[00:03:10.800]kind of building my LinkedIn
[00:03:12.720]throughout the years. I didn't
[00:03:14.400]know what LinkedIn was coming
[00:03:15.900]into university. And this
[00:03:17.920]course
[00:03:18.240]totally opened my eyes to
[00:03:19.600]networking apps and social
[00:03:21.090]media and the power it has in
[00:03:22.560]the business
[00:03:23.360]world. So that was great to
[00:03:24.530]learn. They hosted networking
[00:03:25.890]events down in the atrium,
[00:03:27.200]which were
[00:03:27.600]super helpful. You get to kind
[00:03:29.520]of talk to a ton of different
[00:03:31.160]professions and professionals
[00:03:33.230]here
[00:03:33.360]in Lincoln. And a lot of people
[00:03:34.880]I know actually were like
[00:03:36.040]getting business cards. I was
[00:03:37.610]getting
[00:03:37.920]business cards. So it was great
[00:03:39.980]to talk to so many different
[00:03:41.690]people and get networking
[00:03:43.200]experience
[00:03:43.840]because I know it can be
[00:03:45.100]something foreign to people and
[00:03:46.900]I didn't know what networking
[00:03:48.640]was.
[00:03:48.800]And so this course definitely
[00:03:50.050]helped me develop my networking
[00:03:51.400]skills and interpersonal skills.
[00:03:52.560]And I also was able to do a
[00:03:56.840]mock interview with Deloitte
[00:03:58.800]through these PrEP classes,
[00:03:59.840]which was great, especially in
[00:04:01.120]my senior year, kind of working
[00:04:03.600]towards jobs,
[00:04:04.880]post-grad and all the
[00:04:05.720]interviews I had to do. That
[00:04:07.170]was a big help in preparing
[00:04:09.230]myself.
[00:04:10.080]Excellent. And the Business
[00:04:13.250]Career Center helps teach a lot
[00:04:15.360]of those professional
[00:04:16.560]enhancement
[00:04:17.120]program courses. And I know you've
[00:04:19.180]had some experience with the
[00:04:20.180]Business Career Center
[00:04:21.040]outside of the PrEP classes.
[00:04:21.760]And I know you've had some
[00:04:21.760]experience with the Business
[00:04:21.760]Career Center
[00:04:21.760]outside of the PrEP classes,
[00:04:22.700]through the employment
[00:04:23.520]readiness certificate,
[00:04:24.720]which is a program for
[00:04:25.660]international students. Tell me
[00:04:27.230]a little bit about that
[00:04:28.080]experience.
[00:04:28.720]Yeah. So I was a peer mentor
[00:04:30.190]for international students. It
[00:04:32.490]was a wonderful experience. I
[00:04:34.560]was
[00:04:34.800]able to connect with a group of
[00:04:36.660]international students and I
[00:04:38.520]helped them prepare for the
[00:04:40.240]career
[00:04:40.640]fair. We practice elevator
[00:04:42.160]speeches and I kind of got to
[00:04:43.550]follow them along their journey
[00:04:45.190]here at the
[00:04:45.760]university and really get to
[00:04:47.230]know them. And it was great.
[00:04:48.890]They taught me so much about
[00:04:50.300]their culture.
[00:04:50.960]And the differences in the
[00:04:53.520]United States and wherever they
[00:04:54.960]were from. And so it was a
[00:04:56.240]really
[00:04:56.560]fun time to meet all these
[00:04:57.940]people. Well, I love that as a
[00:04:59.600]peer mentor,
[00:05:00.400]not only were you helping other
[00:05:01.970]people, but then you learned so
[00:05:03.610]much from them as well.
[00:05:04.800]And so it was just such a great
[00:05:06.270]mutual experience. Yeah, they
[00:05:08.540]were so fun to get to know.
[00:05:10.240]They have
[00:05:10.720]so many interests and hobbies
[00:05:12.200]that I never would have even
[00:05:13.560]thought of. And learning about
[00:05:14.960]their
[00:05:15.120]culture was super important to
[00:05:16.750]me because as an international
[00:05:18.370]business major, I
[00:05:20.160]had to kind of plan on in the
[00:05:21.850]future working abroad and kind
[00:05:23.740]of putting myself in situations
[00:05:25.840]where I have to learn about
[00:05:27.420]different cultures very fast
[00:05:29.250]and be appreciative of them.
[00:05:31.090]And it was
[00:05:31.760]really great to kind of hear
[00:05:33.120]their life stories and their
[00:05:34.530]perspectives. So I imagine with
[00:05:36.240]your
[00:05:36.560]internship, you had to be
[00:05:37.760]pretty adaptable and learn
[00:05:39.030]about a variety of different
[00:05:40.360]cultures.
[00:05:41.040]So what is one thing that you
[00:05:42.700]accomplished in your internship
[00:05:44.740]that you are just super proud
[00:05:46.480]of?
[00:05:46.960]Super proud of my work I did
[00:05:48.200]over there. I really worked
[00:05:49.360]hard during this internship.
[00:05:49.360]I developed great interviewing
[00:05:52.820]skills and kind of talking to
[00:05:54.880]customers and consumers and
[00:05:56.320]seeing
[00:05:57.120]their preferences and then
[00:05:58.340]gathering their feedback that
[00:05:59.750]helped me with that. And then
[00:06:00.960]also building reports for my
[00:06:03.240]company and kind of giving them
[00:06:05.710]helpful feedback that would
[00:06:07.760]really
[00:06:08.000]benefit their company and what
[00:06:09.560]students actually are looking
[00:06:11.210]for in an app and a networking
[00:06:12.650]website.
[00:06:13.040]So that was great. I'm also
[00:06:14.640]really proud of myself and my
[00:06:16.260]experience. I was able to put
[00:06:18.000]myself
[00:06:18.560]way out of my comfort zone. I
[00:06:20.540]went there not knowing anybody
[00:06:22.660]and I'm proud of everything
[00:06:25.520]that I accomplished while I was
[00:06:26.890]there. Well, in your company,
[00:06:28.480]even though it was based in
[00:06:29.600]Spain, you had a very like
[00:06:31.850]world and international co-worker
[00:06:34.930]set. So where did you, where
[00:06:36.960]were people
[00:06:37.360]from that worked there? There
[00:06:38.800]was actually only one Spanish
[00:06:40.160]native there, my boss,
[00:06:41.360]and she was amazing. I adored
[00:06:43.290]working with her. She was a
[00:06:45.070]great mentor. The CEO was
[00:06:46.780]actually from
[00:06:47.760]Alabama. So that was nice to
[00:06:49.580]have another American in the
[00:06:51.370]office. So he was really fun to
[00:06:53.440]talk to,
[00:06:53.760]really great to get to know. A
[00:06:55.700]lot of people were from Germany
[00:06:58.560]and Ireland, the Middle East.
[00:07:01.280]There was, I believe, Australia.
[00:07:03.420]It was a total melting pot of
[00:07:04.970]different cultures and
[00:07:06.400]different
[00:07:06.800]ways of working and kind of
[00:07:08.230]communication skills. And so it
[00:07:10.120]was really interesting to kind
[00:07:12.100]of
[00:07:12.320]navigate that at first, but in,
[00:07:14.030]in the end it worked out great
[00:07:15.490]and we all really got along as
[00:07:17.440]a
[00:07:17.600]team. That's great. So what
[00:07:19.550]about the rest of your time in
[00:07:21.140]Barcelona, the classes that you
[00:07:22.740]took,
[00:07:23.440]the fun stuff that you got to
[00:07:24.520]do? What did you do while you
[00:07:25.690]were over there? I got to
[00:07:27.040]travel
[00:07:27.600]a lot. I went to six different
[00:07:29.950]countries while I was there and
[00:07:32.170]I got to visit my family over
[00:07:34.320]in
[00:07:34.480]Ireland, which was great. I
[00:07:36.660]went to Switzerland and Croatia.
[00:07:39.060]And so I really tried to make
[00:07:40.950]the
[00:07:41.280]most out of the little time
[00:07:42.660]that I had. So that was great.
[00:07:44.420]I got to travel within Spain. I
[00:07:46.120]went to
[00:07:46.880]Tausa de Mar, which is up north
[00:07:48.850]by the coast of France. And so
[00:07:50.940]that was super cool to go see
[00:07:53.360]different parts of Spain as
[00:07:54.570]well. And I was able to make
[00:07:56.170]friends with people from the
[00:07:58.080]university
[00:07:58.480]that I did not know before. And
[00:08:00.030]so it was super fun getting to
[00:08:01.400]know an entirely different
[00:08:02.740]group
[00:08:03.200]of people. That's so great. I'm
[00:08:04.780]so jealous at all of your world
[00:08:06.140]traveling. Well, and after
[00:08:09.120]graduation here in May,
[00:08:10.950]congratulations. So what do you
[00:08:13.480]plan to do? So I'm graduating
[00:08:15.730]and then I
[00:08:16.720]leave for Barcelona. I'm going
[00:08:19.000]back for a few weeks. I'm just
[00:08:21.110]going to kind of bounce around
[00:08:22.560]again and then also go say hi
[00:08:24.220]to the CareerOS team in their
[00:08:25.960]new office. So I'm super
[00:08:27.540]excited
[00:08:28.160]to meet up with them. And then
[00:08:29.640]after that, I'm starting a job
[00:08:31.120]at Primetime Healthcare in
[00:08:32.720]Omaha,
[00:08:33.280]Nebraska. So I will be starting
[00:08:35.650]that at the end of July.
[00:08:37.420]Excellent. So what, thinking
[00:08:39.990]back on your
[00:08:40.560]entire College of Business
[00:08:41.940]experience, study abroad, your
[00:08:43.690]additional classes, the extracurricular
[00:08:46.000]activities that you've done,
[00:08:47.760]what skills have you developed
[00:08:49.540]here that you're going to take
[00:08:51.520]into your job at Primetime
[00:08:53.130]Health? Yeah, so I'm going to
[00:08:55.030]be staffing and recruiting
[00:08:56.320]traveling
[00:08:56.800]nurses. And so it's really
[00:08:57.940]important that I have great
[00:08:59.030]communication skills and can
[00:09:00.230]get these
[00:09:01.200]nurses to where they need to be
[00:09:02.760]in a timely manner and kind of
[00:09:04.210]help them navigate a new
[00:09:05.920]working situation. So the
[00:09:07.410]college has taught me great
[00:09:08.560]communication skills and
[00:09:09.800]problem solving
[00:09:10.640]skills that I'll definitely
[00:09:11.960]need to carry into my career.
[00:09:13.390]And I've also become an
[00:09:14.500]extremely hard
[00:09:15.280]worker in my time here, which I
[00:09:17.100]thank the college for, for
[00:09:18.710]pushing me and I was able to
[00:09:20.320]push myself.
[00:09:21.040]And so I'm definitely going to
[00:09:22.460]carry those skills into my
[00:09:23.730]future. Well, Molly, we are so
[00:09:25.440]excited for
[00:09:26.240]where you're going to go after
[00:09:27.640]graduation, not only with Primetime
[00:09:29.470]Health in Omaha, but
[00:09:31.040]even beyond after that. So
[00:09:32.410]thanks for being a great
[00:09:33.600]student for us and
[00:09:34.960]sharing your story today. Thank
[00:09:39.810]you so much. I appreciate it.
[00:09:44.560]Thank you.

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