IMLP Internships: Less Coffee, More Responsibility

While researching internships, you will often come across stories of people making coffee for the executives or filing papers away all day. My experience as a GE intern was not like this at all. While interviewing for my internship with GE Money Americas, I kept hearing the phrase "We give you meaningful work to complete". I wondered how a company like GE could give interns the responsibility of leading business critical projects and maintaining business critical applications.

As I found out when I began my internship, GE not only gives interns challenging, but manageable projects, but also provides them with the necessary oversight and support to succeed in their projects. For the summer, each intern has an assignment leader. Depending on the business, the assignment leader is usually a manager, senior manager, or vice president. The assignment leader oversees the work of the intern, provides feedback throughout the summer, and answers questions related to the assignment.


During my internship, I worked on the E-Commerce team for GE Money Americas Retail Consumer Finance Division(Dual Cards and Private Label Credit Cards). This team was responsible for building and maintaining the websites used to view credit card transactions, request credit limit increases, communicate with customer service, as well as many other services.

As part of this team, I was responsible for the secure email application, which allows consumers to communicate with the customer service team through email messages once they are logged in to the e-service site. This responsibility included creating instances for new e-service sites, as well as maintaining the existing secure email instances. During my rotation, I had full access to and full responsibility for the secure email application. Though I had this big responsibility, I was not alone. My assignment leader, who initially built the system, was always there to answer questions or provide guidance.

So when you begin to consider where to intern or work full time, I urge you to find a place where you can take on meaningful work and make a difference. Not only do you prove yourself to your co-workers and managers, but you learn more than you ever would standing around the coffee pot.

Check out the GE Careers website for a list of internship opportunities.

Comments

[Andrew Knoll]

These IMLP internships are right on line with the rotations done while part of the IMLP program. Similar to the IMLP internships, IMLP rotations offer you high levels of responsibility, interesting & meaningful work, targeted advancement & growth opportunities, and a support system to help you on your way. There's no coffee and donuts involved. It's a work hard, play hard culture. So, if you're hungry for real, meaningful, impactful work to do and are ready to push yourself, IMLP might be just the fit you're looking for. For more info. on IMLP or to apply, see the IMLP section of GE careers at http://www.gecareers.com/GECAREERS/jsp/imlp.jsp