Blog # 9

My career experience with my internship. I attend meetings every week for HMI, as you know. The doctors that I represent are Dr. Allotta (Sports Medicine), Dr. Sonsor (Physiatry), and Dr. Smith (Neurosurgery). I happen to be searching for jobs at PMC were I am taking my internship and came across an Office Manager position for Port St. John facility, which is were I live so I thought that was cool. I clicked on the job to look more into it and it says Muscular Skeletal Program which is another name for Human Motion Institute so I am wandering if it is for the doctors that I represent and see in meetings everyweek. I email HR asking them if it is for Dr. Smith, Dr. Sonsor, or Dr. Smith are the doctors that I will be office manager for and she replied saying that they were. I am completely stoked about this job thinking, “hey maybe I have a chance because I do see them and I do know a little bit more about the muscular skeletal program than other”. I put in my application and brought it up to Gloria to see if there was anything that she could do to help me out. We all started talking at a meeting and she said she would email them putting in a good word for me. I thought that I was in there, it made me think that I could really possibly get this job. Everyone at Parrish was kind of making me happy saying I could still attend meetings and be involved with HMI and that it would be even better because I would know the schedules of the docs and it would help out a lot at meetings. A couple days later I receive an email from Parrish sayin, “Thank you for submitting you’re application for the Office Manager position. Please not the number of factors when considering an application for employment. Due to the number of applications we have receieved we will not be moving forward with your application. Etc.”. This email completely bummed me out. I didn’t really receive any explanation of why my application would not be considered because I think of myself as more than qualified enough for the position. Although I was very upset I considered this a learning experience, something better will come in the future, and I wasn’t ment to have this position. I attended an event a couple days later and Dr. Smith was there and I was telling him how I applied for that position and he said that they were having a really hard time finding someone, I was a little confused by that because the email made it sound like they had numerous people lined up and I wasn’t good enough for the position. That also got me thinking I might email human resources and ask them why I did not qualify for the position but Im not sure if I should be so pushy or if doing that would be a good idea. I think that if anything I got out of this internship is definitely a learning experience of the process you go through trying to do different things at a hospital.