Taking Initiative

Taking initiative means doing what has to be done without a reminder. Some ways to take initiative are to ask for more work when you finish the work you already have, find work yourself, and have a good attitude. It's important to take initiative at your internship, because if you don't, you won't get anywhere, and you won't get the job. An example of when I took initiative at my internship was when I finished the invoices for one NIH institute, I simply went and asked John if there was another NIH institute that I could do invoices for.