Meeting: A scheduled discussion, in person or online, to share updates, make decisions or solve a problem.
Example
You have a weekly one-to-one meeting with your mentor to discuss your progress.
Why Meeting matters for IT interns
Joining on time, coming prepared and following up on decisions are basic professional habits.
Where you will hear it
You will hear this term in the tools and meetings teams use to plan, track, and discuss their work. If someone uses it and you are not sure what they mean in your project, it is completely fine to ask; every team uses terms a little differently.
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- Microsoft Teams: A workplace chat, calling and meeting tool used by many companies.
- Milestone: An important checkpoint in a project, such as finishing a phase or a major release.
- Slack: A workplace chat tool organised into channels, used by many tech companies for team communication.
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What is Meeting?
A scheduled discussion, in person or online, to share updates, make decisions or solve a problem.
What is an example of Meeting?
You have a weekly one-to-one meeting with your mentor to discuss your progress.
Why does Meeting matter for IT interns?
Joining on time, coming prepared and following up on decisions are basic professional habits.
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Dhaivat has 16+ years of experience in the IT industry, working on AI and cloud technologies, project delivery, and engineering leadership. He has interviewed and mentored many interns, wrote The Lost Intern, and runs the non-commercial Career Impact Initiative, mentoring students for free.