How to Leverage Internships for a Full-time Job With Sanam Rastegar, McLarty Associates [re-release]

Sanam Rastegar is a Senior Associate at McLarty Associates*, a boutique firm specializing in international strategic consulting.  She also speaks 5 languages — 3 of them fluently and had 3 interesting summer internships which she believes helped her hone skills that she’s putting to use now in her job.  In those internships, Sanam got to try her hand at marketing, merchandising and assisting other full-time employees in important tasks. In effect, Sanam learned the basics of how to succeed at other companies even before she’d graduated from college which she did in 2016 when she got her B.A. in Global Affairs from Yale University. In addition, besides her hard work in the academic and work environments, Sanam also spent all four years in school on the Yale sailing team.  Sanam says that this extra-curricular experience taught her how to be a leader and how to work as a member of a close knit team. She even planned a sailing regatta that gave her useful skills she put to use to help plan a huge McLarty 20th anniversary party in 2018.  *In May 2019 Sanam left McLarty to join the Biden for President campaign. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: Why paying your dues as an assistant or associate has hidden benefits even if the work may be tedious Why you should put in extra hours even when you’re working in an entry-level job How to effectively balance distractions when you have to juggling a lot of responsibilities  How to properly translate job descriptions in your field of interest The hidden benefits of participating in a team sport at college which can help you when you start working in the “real” world How an internship can be just as educational as an academic experience Why studying foreign languages is a big benefit if you are international in working in international affairs