The Internship Experience in Covid-19 Times | Part 3
This is post number 3 of the remote Internship series during Covid-19 times. For a collection of all installments, click here.
The Transition Phase & Job Interviews
The first interview proposal occurs in early March. It is a UK-based company, for a remote digital marketing position. They say they would like to set a remote interview. I accept and we schedule an appointment for the end of the week. It is early March, and we are still stuck at home owing to Covid-19. On a Friday of the second week of March, I meet with one of the company's HR employees, who is, in fact, an intern himself. The job interview kicked off later than scheduled, and lasted for about 15 minutes. Feedback from the various organizations for which I applied seems to arrive very slowly, and the academic year is reaching its end.
After two days from the interview, the company offers me the position, by sending an email. I decide to wait for some time before answering, to remain open to other opportunities arising. One such opportunity arrives two weeks after the first interview. It is another UK-based company looking for a digital marketing intern. The digital marketing position seems to be one of the most wildly looked for these days on job offerings portals. There may be a causal relationship between the pandemic and this fact, as almost the entire business world has found itself in need to pivot to online endeavors. We schedule an interview at some point toward the end of March, and they too offer me the position. I am now experiencing some degree of anxiety (as in the mind being worried for the future) and need to decide on which proposal to accept. A blink of an eye, and it's Easter. COVID-19 keeps being a global pandemic with paramount negative effects. Vaccines distribution has now sped up significantly, at least where I am located. Just before Easter, during the same week, I get another internship interview offer from a Europe-based organization in the management consulting realm. Meanwhile, however, I decided to accept the internship offer for the digital marketing position at the second company cited above. I refused the offer from (company 1). I am now experiencing some level of overwhelm while feeling grateful for having more than one opportunity to intern. I will go through the interview for (company 3) anyways. It's an opportunity worth a try. So I will merely do it, and see whether they have positions available later this year, so that I could land two internships this year, instead of one.
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