“Try before you buy” with an internship
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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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How do you decide what job is right for you? Host Yanely Espinal talks to early-career coach and consultant Jade Walters about the value of internships and how to find, get and excel in them.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, parents and teens. This episode of Financially Inclined is presented in partnership with Greenlight, the debit card and money app for teens. Today we're discussing all things internships. They're a great way to gain experience in the working world, but can also help you learn how to better budget for the travel, meals, and any other expenses that might pop up as you prepare to enter the workforce. |
| 0:22.3 | Use Greenlight to track your internship, income, and expenses. |
| 0:26.0 | Get $10 by signing up at greenlight.com slash inclined. |
| 0:33.2 | What's up everybody? I'm Janelli Espinal, and this is financially inclined for Marketplace. |
| 0:38.4 | We're sharing money lessons for living life your own way. |
| 0:52.5 | There are so many different jobs and careers out there, and it can be hard to figure out which one is right for you. |
| 0:59.6 | That's the great thing about internships. |
| 1:02.2 | They give you a chance to test out different options and gain firsthand experience. |
| 1:07.5 | I tried out a lot of different things before I started my own business, and the |
| 1:12.0 | internships that I had in high school and college really helped me figure out what I wanted |
| 1:16.6 | and didn't want to do in the future. Today, I'm talking to early career coach and consultant |
| 1:22.6 | Jade Walters about all things internships. Jade runs a blog and an Instagram account called the ninth semester, |
| 1:30.7 | where she shares advice and career resources to help Gen Z find paid early career opportunities. |
| 1:37.2 | So I know she'll have a lot of expert advice to share with you all. |
| 1:41.8 | All right, let's get into it. |
| 1:45.9 | Okay, so Jade, let's start with the basics. |
| 1:51.3 | What is an internship and like how is it different from a job or like part-time work? |
| 1:58.3 | Yes. So an internship is usually a short-term experience. Basically, you're kind of like a junior employee and you have the opportunity to work on particular projects |
| 2:02.5 | for the summer, join team meetings, but it's essentially a big immersion experience for someone |
| 2:09.5 | who say that they're trying to decide whether or not they want to work in your desired industry |
| 2:13.3 | to get a glimpse for like a few months to see, is this something that they really want to do? |
| 2:18.4 | Nice. Now, I know you mentioned like the summer or like a certain period of time. |
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