Tag Archives : Skill Building

Tech Apprentice: Let the Contest Begin! #myteamis…

Tech Apprentice: Let the Contest Begin! #myteamis…

Through a series of marketing technology-related challenges at Bentley University’s Center for Marketing Technology, students will be eliminated from the competition or advance to the next round until one student is named the Tech Apprentice. In a competition hosted by Eric Leist…Who will be victorious? Tech Apprentice Teams: “Mexican Space Vikings” vs. “#dux” vs.  “4.0″ vs.  “Tortoises”  Share
Tech Apprentice: Some Internships Are Worth Fighting For

Tech Apprentice: Some Internships Are Worth Fighting For

There are a lot of ways to get an internship: through your career center, a cold resume submission, or even your uncle’s cousin’s friend’s neighbor’s son’s company…but if you want to intern at the best ad firm to work for in the country (according to Ad Age), you’ll have to earn your spot. Literally. That’s what 14 Bentley University students are doing this [...]
Peers Helping Peers: Personally and Professionally

Peers Helping Peers: Personally and Professionally

  Accepting an internship is a leap of faith: a career move that will either leave one feeling satisfied and accomplished, or alternatively, that they have taken a hop, skip and jump back to square one. It is without doubt that some internships are better than others. As strongly as I believe that one can strive to make any intern period beneficial, some positions allow more freedom and professional [...]
Intern Life Happenings: From Intern to Employee

Intern Life Happenings: From Intern to Employee

Working full-time after an internship at the same company has certain desirable aspects: job security, familiarity, and status in the company rather than someone pulled from the outside. But with the economy as it has looked in the past few years, interns were often considered temporary and more as a stepping stone to a future job somewhere else. This article cites a study that shows the highest conversion [...]
Intern Life Skills: Marketing Your Social Media Marketing Skills to an Employer

Intern Life Skills: Marketing Your Social Media Marketing Skills to an Employer

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 [...]
Intern Life Branding: Tips and Tricks for Creating a Captivating Cover Letter

Intern Life Branding: Tips and Tricks for Creating a Captivating Cover Letter

This is a repost from The Good Intern’s blog. Read more posts here. One of the first steps in applying for an internship is composing a captivating cover letter to send to the company that will make the reader stand up from their seat and declare that they simply MUST have you as an intern. No pressure, right? While the scenario above has a pretty optimistic reaction, the point is that your cover [...]
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