Kempsville Graduate Makes Strides to Successful Career

This spring, college students all over the country will graduate. They will enter a job market that is full of prospective employees but extremely short of job opportunities. With such a surplus of applicants, the job market is more competitive now than it has been since the Great Depression. It is now even more crucial that applicants are able to set themselves apart from other prospects. Internships are a great way to achieve this.
George Mason University’s Communication Department has worked hard to create internship opportunities for its students. Many students have taken advantage of these opportunities. Abbi Boose is one Communication student who has excelled in her internship. A Kempsville High graduate, Boose is an intern at LeapFrog Solutions Marketing firm in Oakton, Virginia. She has many responsibilities, all of which are preparing her for her future career. From client interaction to research to preparing award submissions so the company can be recognized for its achievements.
These tasks are all very important to the success of LeapFrog Solutions. As Boose completes them, she is learning about what it takes to make a company successful. This is important to her, as she aspires to own a business one day. Through her internship she has been able to learn firsthand about the behind the scenes work necessary to make a business run. She is learning how to represent LeapFrog Solutions to clients and other players in the business world, which will prove to be a useful skill in her future career.
A Communication major with a tourism and events management minor, Boose one day hopes to run a wedding planning business. The wedding planning field is very competitive and frequently difficult to enter into. It is her hope that she will be able to work in the Public Relations field for a few years while doing an apprenticeship at a wedding planning firm. After those experiences she will have the contacts and skills necessary to be successful in the wedding planning industry.
Boose has already excelled in many aspects of her busy life. She has maintained a high level of academic success during her four years of school. She has also held many positions within her sorority, Gamma Phi Beta. Her most important position was being elected by her sorority to serve on George Mason’s Pan-Hellenic Executive Council. During her term, Boose coordinated campus-wide events such as Pan-Hellenic sorority recruitment and Greek Week.
These experiences, combined with her internship experience at LeapFrog Solutions will go a long way to help Boose in her future career. Thanks to her hard work in her internship, her commitment to academic excellence, and her ability to balance extracurricular activities during her undergraduate years she will stand out as an excellent candidate for any job she chooses to apply for. She is certain to become one of Kempsville High’s successful alumni.