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Amy Nguyen(ng-win)
2024 Summer Intern
With the warm and friendly office
environment I was spoiled with, I often
“Unique to the nature of the Jobs for Youth found myself in daily conversations with
program and community, this internship co-workers. These compassionate
has allowed me to not only grow my conversations helped to humanize my
personal career skills, but also gain an professional experience and connect
internal perspective on what it means to passion to the work I was doing. Both
harness and build these skills for other through the relationships I was able to
youth within the County. Under the forge, and professional soft skill sets I
compassionate guidance of my supervisor consistently engaged in, this internship has
and program specialist, I learned to juggle widened my perspective on what it means
multiple projects regarding workshop to be a working professional, and more
auditing, website maintenance, formulating importantly, what it means to be a person
equity initiatives, and even conduct data in today’s evolving world.
analysis for program performance.
Additionally, my 1 on 1 sessions with Lastly, if I could extend a piece of advice to
various professionals in fields ranging future interns, I would encourage them to
from graphic design to law, have allowed seek out any opportunity to humanize their
me to connect with remarkable individuals internship experience. The work we do can
and explore career paths through their be daunting, and may push us beyond our
stories. Beyond internal operations, my comfort zones in the spirit of progress, but
professional repertoire expanded to also by connecting with the people we work
encompass in-person community work, with, and/or discovering personal
attending job readiness workshops, connections to our work, only then are we
festivals, and summits! able to find true value in our internships.”
