Berklee Blogs checks in with Camilo Puche, a Music Business major and fall intern, midway through his internship with Conductor’s Cooperative Management, a management company providing worldwide representation and management for classical music conductors. In today’s blog, Camilo tells us how interns should approach mistakes as an opportunity to improve themselves…

One of the most important advantages of being an intern is the fact that interns are “allowed” to make mistakes and will most likely not get fired. I say this not with the intention of justifying laziness or incompetence. On the contrary, I say it because it gives the intern a chance to be proactive and try different ways to perform the job. If things don’t turn out the way we want them to or if there are unexpected results, interns will always get a second chance.

In order to get something out of those mistakes, we have to be self-critical and very analytical. When the day is over and we go home it may be helpful to think about the things that we could do better. How can I make better use of my time? Did I do everything in my power to accomplish today’s task? Did I respond to my boss’ and my own expectations today? Some of these may be questions that we ask ourselves in order to learn from the experience at hand.

A very valuable lesson that I take out of my internship is that I need to learn how to make better use of my time in the office. When I started, I would wait until I got to the office to start preparing the things that I had to do, which led to me spending lots of time preparing as opposed to working. Through this auto-critical process I realized that if I spend fifteen or twenty minutes at the end of the day making a list and organizing my schedule for the next day, my time at the office would be much more efficient.

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Berklee Blogs checks in with Camilo Puche, a Music Business major and fall intern, midway through his internship with Conductor’s Cooperative Management, a management company providing worldwide representation and management for classical music conductors. In today’s blog, Camilo discusses overcoming the uncertainty that can accompany a new intern…

Young professionals always feel overwhelmed the first few days in a job. We are unsure whether what we learned in school will translate easily to the tasks that we have to perform in the workplace and many times we sit there wondering what we do next. An internship is a great opportunity to face this initial fear of being out of school and slowly and progressively find ways to apply the knowledge that we acquired in the past few years.

There are many times when we sit in a class wondering: How am I ever going to apply this to my job?  The truth is that every class serves its purpose; we just have to look for it. We may not ever use what we learned in a History of Western Music class in our jobs, but it is a great guide to understanding how we got to be where we are now. We may not be interested in working at the financial department of a record label, but the finance and statistics class teach us how to be resourceful and find a way to overcome a difficulty to accomplish our purpose.

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