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Intern Life Takeaway: “I’m a Person Too!” – Knowing Your Worth at Your Internship
Posted by Marah Lidey · 0 Comment
My greatest takeaway from various internships I had this year, is that I now know my worth as an intern and as a person much better than before.
Several times along the way with virtual and remote internships I have asked myself, am I learning something from this internship? Is my time and opinion respected in my internship? If my internship is unpaid and I am offering ‘free help’, [...]
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Skill Building, Takeaway
Intern Life Skills: From Campus to Corporate, How to Communicate in a Whole New Jungle
Posted by Marah Lidey · 1 Comment
As college students, we learn a lot about culture and how to communicate and behave in different settings. We have entire courses dedicated to specific traditions and many of us have friends of unique ethnic backgrounds. Yet one thing we fail to learn in college is that culture in the workplace holds a new, entirely different meaning and largely dictates how we as an intern act and communicate in the [...]
Intern Life Skills: Presentations
Posted by Marah Lidey · 0 Comment
It’s the beginning of the summer and your first day at your shiny, new summer internship. You’ve neatly decorated your cubicle, introduced yourself to your fellow co-workers and interns and then your manager sits you down to run you through what you will be doing for the next few months. If your like most interns, somewhere in that conversation you are likely to here – “and then you will make [...]
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Skill Building
Intern Life Skills: Marketing Your Social Media Marketing Skills to an Employer
Posted by Marah Lidey · 2 Comments
The great thing about having a skill set for social media marketing is that you become exactly that – marketable. If you have created a campaign for a company or a class project that you can show visible results from—you have officially dubbed yourself a Social Media Specialist. Really, there are even people who have been in the social media marketing biz for only a few years who have trademarked [...]
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Skill Building
Intern Life Skills: Developing A Content Strategy
Posted by Marah Lidey · 0 Comment
If you are interested in becoming a social media marketing intern, you will likely be working to promote a company’s website and there is big chance that you will either need to practice or understand content strategy.
What is content strategy, you say? Content strategy is the planning for content creation, delivery and management for a website. But since we’re all interns here, our end of the [...]
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Skill Building
Intern Life Skills: Executing a Strategized Online Marketing Campaign
Posted by Marah Lidey · 0 Comment
Now that you’ve read the first post on how to get started with a social media marketing campaign, you – the all-star digital media intern— are ready to dive in and execute a strategized online marketing campaign to raise awareness for your employer.
After you have done your research, analyzed the company’s current social media status and decided what you want to measure is time to create and [...]
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Skill Building, Social Media Marketing
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