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The NIH Management Intern Program offers key resources, targeted training,
and hands on experience to NIH employees interested in pursuing a career
in administrative management.
The MI Program had...did and always...continues to
exceed my expectations.
I just think it's so amazing that there's an opportunity like this to take two years
from your life and just do intensive rotations...the assignments, the type of
work projects that you get involved with, and the type of
people that you're exposed to.
And the value to that throughout your career is just so invaluable..
the experience and the exposure.
And I continue to find, even to this day, that my experiences in MI has been
rewarding for the connections that I made at that time, for the people that I still
communicate with, for the opportunities that came about as a result of that.
And the interactions continue to this day with the folks that I both got to know
through the intern program and with my intern classmates at that time.
I think one of the greatest things about this program is really having access to a lot
of the senior leadership here at NIH.
I mean meeting the executive officers has been wonderful and being able to attend
high level meetings and having that top down view of how decisions are made here
at the NIH has been really exciting.
It kind of helps me see how all the pieces of NIH fall together and how it functions.
And so it's taught me a lot about this place as an organization.
And it's been exciting to meet other people...and the networking opportunities
that the program has provided has been really good.
I've met so many people from different career paths and I'm learning more about
other career options that I did not know existed before, so that's very exciting.
Well my wife actually was the person who let me know about the program initially.
She had let me know about it the year before, but I was kind of looking at my
options where I was still working at as far as being promoted to the next grade and
taking on some more responsibilities...learning a little about
budget and things like that.
So I think what finally made me apply was just...I think I wanted to move
to a different position.
I wanted to look at perhaps being an AO or learn about different fields like
budget and other areas.
So really it was looking at expanding on my current training, but then looking at
what other things I could do.
For more information on the Management Intern Program visit:
trainingcenter-dot-nih-dot-gov-slash-intern-slash-mi.