The goal of this internship is to teach entrepreneurial-minded PhD scholars to navigate the small-business startup process. Through the Summer 2022 CLA Internship Program, I wrote and piloted the Small Business Development Internship. I hope this experience makes me a competitive candidate when it comes to my entrance into the job market in the near future.ĭepartment of Spanish & Portuguese StudiesīIPOC Foodways Alliance, Driftless Area Karst Trail, & MorSpanish In the meantime, I am glad and thankful that I was offered the opportunity to keep working as an assistant for the next academic year and keep contributing to this amazing institution that helped me to strengthen multiple skills and learn new ones. Thus, I would like to have these experiences as part of my working routine in the future.įinally, this experience helped me to understand the career path I want to pursue and the sector I want to work in. Second, it made me realize that working in a team and being able to meet people and discuss and plan projects, activities and contributions with them have become essential features that have brightened my internship days. This experience also helped me to identify what I value most in a job.įirst, the institution’s mission, which is democratizing the access to comparable census and survey data from multiple countries and time periods, helping researchers from all over the world to inform public policies here and elsewhere. My communication, data analysis and management skills have been extremely useful to speed up several aspects of this project. My internship with IPUMSI showed me in practice what I have learned in theory at the Internship Program - that the skills that I have built as a Teaching and Research Assistant and the knowledge I have acquired in my graduate program are transferable to different sectors. Apart from that, in this project, I had the opportunity to contact, meet and take part in deep conversations with several experts whose input helped our team to strategically organize the necessary steps to move forward with this extensive and fundamental project. I learned how to deal with several issues imposed by the harmonization of cross-country and time-series microdata. I had the opportunity to work with a large team of researchers and data analysts, which introduced me to a different mindset concerning the ways of implementing transparent and reproducible research. I helped to build partner relations with research institutions in Brazil and the US and researched, analyzed and produced reports concerning the availability of labor surveys metadata and microdata. IPUMSI and Labor Force Surveys Integration Projectĭuring my internship with IPUMSI, at the University of Minnesota, I worked on the Labor Force Surveys Integration project.
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