What was the most valuable thing about your intern experience?

I was really glad to have this internship experience. prior to this internship I was always curious to what the corporate fashion world was like and if it would be a great fit for me. I know now that the visuals department is the most exciting department of a company because you're not coped up at your desk all the time, you get to do field work and the best thing about is you get to create windows for the stores, which is the fist thing consumers see and it is the deciding factor on whether or not to enter the store. I was really lucky because I got to work on all the stores for BCBG from factory all the way up to Herve Leger. I was able to see the difference from doing the visuals for the discount goods and for the high end goods. I have to admit the drive to places was quite tiring at the end of the day but that is what the employees do and they seemed happy doing it, even if they had to drive to places that was more than 60 miles from their home.

How might CSULB and your department better prepare you for a future internship?

I think it would be great for CSULB and the fashion department to have previous interns sit in the fashion classes as a guest speaker to talk about their experience with the company they interned for. This will help students in deciding if that internship is the one for them. This will help students learn about the company's work ethic, duties and responsibilities for interns and what is expected from interns.
Another great idea is for the career development center to have a one day seminar for each internship that is available for students. This will help students choose what company is right for them.

What are three things you learned from your internship that you will be able to use in your future career?

the three things I learned that I will be able to use for my future career are:
1. Always be on time or even earlier, I was able to have more opportunities than the other interns because I was always 10- 20 minutes early. One time I got there 20 minutes early and they brought me to their 10:00 a.m. meeting which was a preview of the next season's collection. I was so happy to be there because that meeting was top secret stuff and I felt great that my supervisor trusted me enough to bring me along.
2. The second thing I learned is to task yourself good and always make sure that you're helping an employee in your department with a task if your supervisor didn't need you to do anything. If your department didn't need help, go next door to the next department and see if they do.
3. The last thing I learned is to be polite and kind to everyone because you never know who you may run in to in the future, especially with this job market.

What are some of your duties and responsibilities as an intern? How are interns supervised? Is there an established intern training plan in place?

As an intern at BCBG your duties and responsibilities change on a daily basis. When you come in for the day, you go to your supervisor first and ask what they need help with. If they do not have any tasks for you, you basically go around the department asking the employees if they need help with anything. For this company there is no established training plan for interns. This company expects you to task yourself well every time you come in. This company does not like to see interns starring off into space on their desk or worse on Facebook or doing other things on the web.