April 2021
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288 pages
5h 55m
English
On Meghan’s first day as a co-op student at a biotechnology company, her manager asked, “So, what do you want to do here?”
Meghan froze. What?! she thought. I figured you’d already have a project for me! Not knowing how to respond, Meghan said, “Anything you want! I’m flexible.” However, when she tried to update her résumé at the end of the six-month co-op, she found herself staring at the blinking cursor, unsure of what to write.
What did Meghan do during her co-op? She cleaned a bunch of spreadsheets, sent a bunch of emails, and summarized a bunch of research papers. It wasn’t the résumé-building experience she had imagined. Looking back, Meghan told me: “Had I done more research into what the organization ...
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