Step-By-Step Instructions To Update EH-Intern Micro-Site

Here are a few steps for you to follow:

1. Click on this website. http://eh-internguide.blogspot.com/

2. Click New Post on the top right of the page. 

3. Create your own TITLE for your post. Make sure your capitalization is correct. 

4. Copy and paste the article sent to you to be upload. Upload any relevant pictures (if you are using pictures NOT taken by eHomemakers, make sure you credit the source)

5. Make sure your capitalization in your post is also correct. The first letter of each sentence especially should be in capital letters. 

6. Label the name of the source/URL if there is a source from others websites or videos. 

7. Label hashtags that are related to the post.

8. After doing everything, click publish. 

9. After publishing the article, find the post that you created and press view to double check.

10. Link the post you created to the correct category in eH-internguide by finding the correct category first.

11. Press the pencil icon below the category to edit the category. Type out your post name, then hyperlink your post. Click OK and Update.

12. Send the link to your supervisor for one final check.

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Example : http://eh-internguide.blogspot.com/2018/06/most-beautiful-lake-in-kl.html , http://eh-internguide.blogspot.com/2018/06/make-most-of-kuala-lumpur-in-raya.html

Leadership To Internship

During internship, one must possess the willingness to learn and adapt to a different situation.  Feedback given by the team or supervisors are meant to improve your skills and help you to see other perspectives. Feedback should not be seen as a ‘personal attack’ to your ability, or an offense to you.

In the past, the following attributes prevented certain interns ( especially those who have limited working experience and from foreign cultures) from learning or maximizing their time to gain more knowledge:

• My country is more developed than yours, I know what is best for your organization.

• This is how we do this task in my country/my university, I am unwilling to amend my task with your feedback.

• Your perspective and mine are different, I insist on doing this task my way. I won’t amend my task even though it is going to be used by your organization. Take it or leave it.

• Why should I follow your organization’s policy and procedures? I do what I want and how I want to do it.

• I have a higher degree/more experience in this field than you, why should I listen to you?

• I am not a follower, I do it my way, I don’t listen to feedback.

• Why should I explain to you about my actions? I am me  -- I demand freedom of speech, so my office and homestay behaviors are none of your business.

• Your other intern didn’t know how to do this task. I have done it very well for your organization. If you don’t like it, (foul words)!

• I won’t transfer the tasks ( such as videos on own channels, document on own google doc space) I have done during internship to your organization. It is my intellectual property, why should I follow office policy to transfer the ownership to your organization?

 

Interns who are relegated the responsibility to be team leader must read the article below to gain more perspective about leadership. Learn to manage diverse groups of people from different background, interests and with different levels of cooperation.

Be Punctual

One of the hardest intern behaviors to change during the internship is ‘being punctual’ such as showing up at least 15 min before 9 am when the office opens, properly dressed in office attire and having eaten breakfast to start the day. Some interns are consistently late for office,  jotting down attendance time which is earlier than the actual arrival and then arguing vehemently with the supervisors about attendance, leading to discontent and more unprofessional work behaviors.  Some rush to the office without their morning baths and breakfasts, so they feel lethargic.  While ‘curi makan’ ( local Malay term for ‘eating something when you should not be ‘eating’) can be done when no one is looking or in the toilet, the food crumbs left on tables, interns’ workstations, and the drops of fruit jam dripped onto the floor during the ‘rush hour’ have invited cockroaches and rats for parties in the office.  The office becomes an unsanitary environment for the working team.  

Research has shown that university students of the millennial age tend to sleep late because of social media and Net surfing. Many are also waking up very late, sometimes skipping classes.  The tardiness for activities and events without much accountability can become a habit by the time a student graduates.  This habit will not be a positive trait for a fresh graduate in the working world.

Still unconvinced? Watch this video and wake up early:

https://www.facebook.com/JayShettyIW/videos/2025804534400668/

Proof-reading Of Documents

A document or a digital presentation ( for example, a Power Point ) is completed properly when the content is written correctly and presented in professional formats or in a creative format intended for a particular audience group.

Before you click ‘send’, proof-read your formatting. Check for consistency throughout the whole document from titles and subtitles, spacing ( between title and text, table/chart title and table/chart, punctuation after bullet points), numberings 

Here is a checklist for you to check:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1d9RR8N8FNOa8XNH2wezhpjo0ZWBlpX4ZehTHE0LejHA

Organizational Chart

The Work-Life Balance Conference

Here is the link of the Work-Life Balance Conference organized by eHomemakers.

http://worklifebalance.womencommunity.net/