As a recent grad who has hit the ground running, Caitlin Weingartner has helped develop and execute integrated communications plans for clients including GOLDTOE, Reyka Vodka, Tourism Ireland, The U.S. Army All-American Bowl, Prudential New Jersey Properties and Football University to increase consumer awareness and engagement.
Before graduation, however, Caitlin was an intern and she has a few [...]
For the first post for this Intern Life Transition Series, I was very honored to interview Kimberly Lucio as she is currently working her first full-time job at Walker Sands Communications as a full-time interactive marketing specialist.
Kimberly has had three extremely valuable internships where she got real-world experience and learned more than what the textbooks teach. She was a public relations [...]
Last year, I was acutely aware of what time of the year this is: exam time. Though in the world outside of college it is also known as the Holiday Season, before students and interns can make it to those glorious class-free weeks, they must get over the hump of irregular (and extra long!) class times, crash-cram sessions, wrapping up internship projects and rampant, terribly inconvenient bouts of flu.
Believe [...]
It’s almost December and most interns will be wrapping up their stints at corporations, non-profits and agencies across the nation. Some of these interns will return to school in January, others are already searching for their next internships, while others are graduating and looking for full-time jobs.
This is a good time for a little introspection. Did you enjoy your internship? Has it affirmed [...]
There will come a day during your stint as an intern that you really start to get what you are doing. All of the varying tasks thrust upon you start to click into place and you begin to see the organization’s bigger picture. When this day comes, it’s time to reveal your inner rock star.
You begin an internship for several reasons: to gain real-world experience, obtain a good reference or [...]
So you received the call or email you were eagerly awaiting: you’ve been offered an internship position! Let the rush of acceptance and success wash over you, but don’t be surprised to feel a tinge of new anxiety creep in.
Your internship will be a telling glimpse into your life after college. You will experience others’ sentiment of their careers and quickly be able to tell if you [...]