1. Developing For The Future:
The GMF Intern Experience
Ryan Seba, Jay Schuffenhauer, Kailey O’Brien,
Austin Meter, Allison Roderick
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GMF’s Core Business: Inside Track
Ryan – Step 6: Checks and Balances ensures operational accuracy and
compliance, protecting GMF’s assets and reducing risk while still providing
excellent and timely services to the dealer and customer.
Jay – Step 12: 45 day key threshold to determine severity of a delinquent account
Kailey – Step 4: Approve or Decline, showed me all the different steps that went
into approving a customer.
Austin – Step 5 was what I used to think of as the end of the process, but now I
realize there are 10 additional steps!
Allison – Step 14 Recovering Assets: Historical rates of repossession affect how
we score potential customers and ultimately how we fund their loans.
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Personal Discovery: StrengthFinders Survey
Ryan – Ryan believes his Restorative Strength is the most important because it
aligns with his values of saving those in need of help and restoring confidence.
Jay – Surprised to find “Deliberative” among top 5 strengths
Kailey – Strength Finder taught me how to capitalize on my strengths in order to
preform to the best of my abilities.
Austin – Ideation: Always imagining things, thinking about how to make things
better/ more efficient.
Allison – Allison’s strengths of Developer, Belief, and Responsibility were
reflected in her peak experience.
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Intern Takeaways – Development Examples
Ryan – GMF’s Culture exemplifies community investment and development.
Interns experienced this with Philanthropic Day helping TAFB.
Jay – Learned what exactly constitutes “office appropriate” behavior
Kailey – I learned through our diversity presentations that you have to go into
every situation with an open mind.
Austin – Oracle Database Navigation: skills of complex databases and data
mining. Very useful in many careers!
Allison – Allison went into the internship having never coded in SAS before, and
now she’s ending the summer with around 3,000 lines of code under her belt. She
wrote programs detecting fraud and analyzing credit execution.
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