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Q& A dents the chance to get a glimpse of their potential field prior to graduation. After completing an internship, some students reconsider their course of study, while others grow even more committed. But when looking for an internship, look for one that is relevant to your current course of study. It's alright to change afterward, but the internship should be one wherein you can apply the lessons you've learned and gain practical experience to complement those lessons. Avoid accepting an internship that has nothing to do with your course of study, as it's not likely to help you after graduation. • Impact on your future: College students pursue internships because of the role an internship can play in their future. An internship can not only provide valuable experience, but also it's a chance to get your foot in the door with see INTERNSHIP . . . page 7 Where the tech jobs are: in the 'clouds' The sky is the limit for cloud computing as it continues to drive job growth – garnering interest from Main Street, Wall Street, corporations and governments. A 2012 Microsoftcommissioned report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) indicated that spending on cloud services will generate nearly 14 million jobs worldwide by 2015. In the past decade, cloud computing pioneers such as Amazon, Salesforce, Google and Apple, have developed comprehensive cloud services, platforms and applications. Now, traditional businesses of all kinds – even those that don't operate in the technology space – are incorporating cloud services more frequently, laying the New staff member on a very long-distance leash By Liz Reyer Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Q. As a manager, I am accustomed to managing experienced professionals who do not need much day-to-day guidance on performing their tasks. I now have a new entry-level position on my team.The person we've hired is intelligent and motivated but needs a different level of engagement from me to be successful.To add to the complexity, he works in an office six time zones from mine.What is the best way for me to approach this? A. Put a strong communication plan in place, maintaining it as one tasks? Putting yourself in his place, think about what you'd want from of your top daily priorities. your boss and your work Start with reflecting on the environment. reasons this position was added. Also look at yourself and your Since this is a new role, you may level of skill as a manager of a new not have a fully defined set of professional. Consider your ability expectations and plan to figure it to help him learn to break down out as you go along.That's never tasks into manageable components, ideal, but in this case it may be teach the necessary technical skills, setting your employee up for and understand the company. Also failure. So develop a short list of recognize that you're responsible key goals so that he'll know if he's for helping him develop in terms of being successful. general professionalism. Next, consider your new Finally, give some thought to the employee's needs.To what extent resources available to help your do you understand his work style, new team member, particularly at his preferred manner of training his office location, whether it's and communication, and his level of training or mentoring. knowledge related to his specific Most of your efforts will focus on your direct interaction with your employee. For starters, set a time for a phone call that fits within both your business days, say, 9 a.m. for you and 3 p.m. for him.Try to identify a time that will be easy to protect from other meetings so you can count on having frequent interactions. Establish a standard agenda for these calls. Use these questions as a starting point: • What are you working on? • What's going well? • What are you concerned about? Also make time to check on the social aspect of work so that you can be sure he isn't feeling isolated. Get on a regular visiting schedule, and have him visit the home office from time to time, especially if he is your only team member in the field location.There's nothing like some face-to-face time; it'll help the phone interaction be more successful. Also ask him what he needs from you, and then provide it. If he needs more detailed guidance, figure out specifics that'll help. If he needs more training or would like local mentoring, find a resource for him. Expect to invest time, adjust other responsibilities if needed, and seek advice or training yourself if you don't have all the skills you need. Make time for your new employee so that he becomes a successful member of your team. Liz Reyer is a credentialed coach with more than 20 years of business experience. Her company, Reyer Coaching & Consulting, offers services for organizations of all sizes. Submit questions or comments about this column at www.deliverchange.com/coachscorner or email her at lizdeliverchange.com. 2 GREATERmilwaukeeJOBS • January 17, 2013 groundwork for cloudrelated career paths that are rich with opportunity and growth. In fact, a related study from the Sand Hill Group suggests that cloud computing – driven by the 21st century surge in mobile computing, social networking and big data – may generate more job growth in the coming years than the Internet itself did during the 1990s. Cloud computing provides the means through which technology-based services – from computing power and infrastructure to applications, processes and collaboration – can be immediately accessed by see 'CLOUDS' . . . page 7 Volume 15 • Number 19 January 17, 2013 A publication of Conley Media ... from page 1 GREATERmilwaukeeJOBS should seek out an internship that allows them to gain valuable experience. An internship • Companies that let interns and employees grow: at a renowned law firm might boost a resume, but if you Nowadays it's easy to get a spend all of your time in the grasp of the culture within a mailroom or fetching coffee certain company. Social networking sites such as Linked- then that internship will not InTMand Facebook(R) can paint necessarily serve you very well. Look for an internship a pretty accurate picture of a that provides you with an company's environment. An array of experiences within environment that allows its employees to learn on the job your field. A good internship won't involve you doing the and grow with the company same thing every day. Instead, might be more ideal for interns than a company with a it should allow you to try variless nurturing environment. In ous tasks over the course of addition, some companies list your summer or semester with the company. This will give information about their you a more accurate depiction employees on their Web site, of the industry, while allowincluding how they started ing you to list more experiwith the company and how ences on your resume. When long they have been there. A interviewing for an internship, company with a roster of long-term employees is likely ask about the specific tasks and responsibilities you'll be one where people like to entrusted with. The more, the work, an important thing for better. you to consider. • Value and relevance: The • Potential experience: An great thing about an interninternship looks good on a ship is it gives college sturesume, but college students Internship Classified Sales Director: Kristi Wolf 262/670-1516 Account Executive: Donna Armstrong 262/513-2698 darmstrong@conleynet.com Story Coordinator: Dwayne Butler 262/513-2626 dbutler@conleynet.com Production: Patricia Scheel 262/513-2690 Distributed by: Conley Distribution 262-513-2646 ©2004 by Conley Media Waukesha County Independent and Locally Owned GREATERmilwaukeeJOBS is published weekly by Conley Media – Waukesha County, 801 N. Barstow St., Waukesha, WI 53186. Contents of this publication may not be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher. GREATERmilwaukeeJOBS assumes no liability for any error in copy or content. It is the advertiser's responsibility to be aware of the laws pertaining to employment advertising. 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