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A day in the life of a brand creative intern typically began with a morning workout at the UA HQ gym. During work hours, I’d be at a desktop using adobe premiere and after effects to edit whatever project I’m currently working on. There were also meetings with producers and creatives to plan futu...

As an out of area applicant, my interview process occurred entirely over web chat throughout a 2 week period. I had two interviews; the first was a prerecorded Q&A with a recruiter, and the second round a live chat with my future supervisor and another brand creative rep. To prepare, I’d recommen...

The exact sales associate position day to day is very dependent on what store you're employed through (so it varies). But in a typical day; you receive your demo assignment (speaking or product), get acquainted with the talking points for your product, set up an appealing display for your demo, a...

I really liked the flexibility of the program it was very nice to work on your own time while at school. They also offered us great bonuses for exceptional work on a weekly basis which was nice and I once received a $100 gift card for receiving the most signups that week. I did not like how many ...

When choosing to pursue any kind of career, you must consider what you derive satisfaction from. Personally, I feel most satisfied when I am able to help satisfy somebody's needs. In marketing and sales, I have the opportunity to probe at someone to figure out their needs, and ultimately deliver ...

The career progression for contractors are undetermined. Contractors are not guaranteed continuous work on the same team or organization. You really need to drive your own career path and not depend on full-time employee conversion. Make sure that each job you take on, you learn a new skill that'...

As a contractor, you should not expect to receive much support from upper management. However, there are exceptions because it will also depend on the role, team, and manager.

US Bank has very good policies to ensure there is a good work-life balance. My department always us to have flexible scheduling. For example some of my co-workers elect to work 7 hour work days and just don’t take a lunch hour, some work from home completely (depending on manager, but everyone is...

The day to day varies depending on what types of campaigns/projects are going on. Time management and organizational skills are essential to ensure deadlines are met and projects can launch on time. My role involves the creation, review and implementation of marketing tactics to support campaigns...

Generally, my recommendation would be to focus on developing two key skills that are critical to any discipline in communications (ie, PR, marcom, internal comms); storytelling and analytics. Compelling storytelling can promote products/brands, build equity and engage your target audience - all ...

Know their company values. If you can thread those values subtly into your answers then you'll be in good shape. I would also recommend understanding the function of Sales Operation. The interviewers will definitely quiz on it. Understand how vital that role is to the various Sales teams within UHG.

It really depends. Sometimes there are big upcoming projects and events to be working on. I was tasked with pre-scheduling a lot of the social media posts, as well as writing and creating blog posts. There were multiple days that we simply went out to take pictures. We worked on the catalog, vari...

Familiarize yourself with our material! Read through our website, look at our social media- and come prepared with questions. You can learn so much about who we are and what we do by the messages we share already! Taking the time to invest in gaining a basic understanding of our business and miss...

When I was working as a Marketing and Technical Writing Intern at Feyen Zylstra, my days consisted of a multitude of projects. I plugged in wherever I could help so I was able to get experience in marketing, human resources, communications, and community outreach projects. I wrote case studies, d...

Hello! As a Graphic Design Major, I prepared some of my pieces, which I thought were congruent with the content the department was displaying around the University. I also was asked some questions about the meaning behind some of my pieces, my reasoning behind some of my creative decisions and my...

Being a scholar was flexible in terms of scheduling, which I greatly appreciated it. It was indeed a significant amount of work, but i would work from home on given tasks. Which included flyers creation, copy and content creation, specifically geared towards promoting different resources availabl...

I switched off every other week between the academic department and the international department. For academic, I spent a lot of time posting books to their website by editing the language to make it more appropriate for an academic audience and putting the books into categories based on their su...

Look up the Parent Company, Advance Local, try your best to gain a fundamental understanding of what they do as a business and do a little research on digital Marketing, specifically regarding apps such as Google Adwords and Facebook Blueprints. Come up with some questions to ask about the compan...

A day in the life of a brand creative intern typically began with a morning workout at the UA HQ gym. During work hours, I’d be at a desktop using adobe premiere and after effects to edit whatever project I’m currently working on. There were also meetings with producers and creatives to plan futu...

As an out of area applicant, my interview process occurred entirely over web chat throughout a 2 week period. I had two interviews; the first was a prerecorded Q&A with a recruiter, and the second round a live chat with my future supervisor and another brand creative rep. To prepare, I’d recommen...

My salary was $20 per hour, but it wasn't just a marketing internship. The interns in finance, hr, and risk all got paid the same rate.

I interned at SunTrust in the Corporate Functions Development Program, which is a 10 week internship in either marketing, hr, finance, or risk management. You are not guaranteed a specific function, but you can preference. I got placed in marketing and loved it. They recruit mainly from schools i...

To be quite frank, a lot of the things that I did at the Marketing department last semester for Channel 4 (right now I am at the News Assignment Desk for Channel 4) involved Excel. I learned how to navigate the company's software on my own and mostly went out on the field and in the studio for cl...

Some of my responsibilities included basic marketing tasks such as doing extensive research of information and gathering content to create graphics for posting on social media platforms for the campaign of the FIFA World Cup 2018. I also assisted my manager creating concepts and mock ups for diff...

I have previous experience working in the Broadcast/ Media industry, at the same time I want to move forward with my career field which is Graphic Design. I applied to this company hoping to blend both my professional and academic experience together. When you apply to NBCU’s Internship program t...

To be honest--and I'm not sure if this is applicable to other NBCU internships--I didn't have a formal training program. I had one point person who oversaw my work, and when she delegated work to me, she would go over what she expects and how she wants it done. For that internship specifically, i...

As a marketing intern, the hiring managers and the team you work on will have you working on some relevant projects right away, which is great because you want as much experience out of the internship. Thomson Reuters is going through some internal changes in the organization due to an acquisitio...

Aattentiveness, great marketing techniques that would result to a win-win. Ability to proffer what is best for your customers by knowing their strengths and weaknesses.

It's a typical 9-5 job. You have your evenings and weekends to your self for the most part unless your intern team decide to work extra hours on the annual intern campaign to prep for the pitch.

Depends from co-op to co-op. Usually, you are given a broad project to work on over the course of the co-op (along with some usual day to day tasks) that you present out at the end of the program. My big project was coming up with the brand marketing plan of Nizoral for the year 2016. I also work...

I did this internship in my freshman year so I liked the exposure to a professional environment and clients. It was also an introduction to financial products in the insurance industry. I will say that apart from that, the learning is minimal and it would be good to consider roles that promise mo...

The training for this role was pretty informal. The role involved quite a bit of client outreach and cold call, so the financial advisors would train me on how and what to communicate to clients. When there was time, they would give me a brief overview of different financial products. A lot of th...

The work life balance as a Sales and Marketing Associate is great however if you love having weekends off then this probably isn't the job for you. You are required to work a lot of weekends however that is when it is most busy and you have the best opportunity to make sales!

A day in the life of a Sales and Marketing Associate at Bozzuto involves a variety of tasks. Each day you will market your community to interested future residents, work out of the management office to assist current residents, help run the community's social media accounts, and more. Giving comm...

I received $1,000 for 5 weeks of work doing 20-25 hours a week. However, at this time I was in high school with no work experience.

They are looking for someone who is interested in the specific initiatives they are currently working on. They also want someone who wants to pursue a career in marketing and is not just using this experience to pad their resume.

To succeed as an IFS Intern, the most important quality to possess is enthusiasm and curiosity for learning. A strong Excel background is a bonus, but they will train you at the Start national training in which interns all over the country meet. The line of business you may be assigned may be in ...

I believe the salary was $20 per hour with a maximum of 40 hours per week and thus no overtime pay.

Typically it ranges from $19-$27 depending on credit hours completed, though I am not sure exactly how the compensation formula they use works.

A day in the life of a Marketing Intern at Varian depends heavily on which team you work for and if it is focused on one product or at the corporate level. Either way, a large part of the job is researching and learning about the product(s) in depth, so you can apply that knowledge to marketing t...

Lots of different things! J&J’s marketing department is comprised of professionals whose duties apply to communications and analytics, and Co-Ops will usually get to experience both in their workflows. In my experience, some of my communications projects included designing and distributing a Motr...

A day in life as a internal firm services intern for me was simple. I started my day checking emails. I then completed all required training due that day. You'll be assigned training that must be completed each week. After my training was done I either reached out to experienced hires or they rea...

Willingness to learn, autonomous/entrepreneurial spirit, social media savviness, great writing skills, creativity, good grammar/ability to edit, experience publishing things on Wordpress is a plus!

L'Oréal does an incredible job on-boarding interns. Before starting, my supervisor sent me a lot of docs such as the "Intern Bible" and the "Market Overview" to introduce me to all the acronyms and people with whom I would interact every day. Orientation is a day and a half long. The first day is...

L'Oréal is an amazing company and place to work! There are three adjectives I would say summarize the kind of people they like to employ: patient, resilient, and adventurous. Patience is important since, common in large companies that have HQs in nearly every country, sometimes things take a lon...

I gained a lot of experience at L'Oreal during my time there. Although I was an intern, I was heavily involved in the "thick" of the business. I worked closely with our Sales counterparts to execute promotions and marketing collateral for accounts such as ULTA, Regis and Salon Centric. I was prim...

I liked the atmosphere of the marketing team a lot. When work needed to be done they made it clear. When we finished our projects the team allowed us to connect with people from other teams like sales and technology officers.

Kohl's is very passionate about their internship program, meaning that for all of the projects that you are given (small or big), you will receive credit. My team at Kohl's are always quick to acknowledge that "Kim looked into this", or "Kim has been helping out with this", giving me complete own...

The sports marketing team itself is small, so there are not openings nearly as often as you would find in the financial and accounting areas of the business. That being said, one of my favorite mentors on the team did intern for the team twice and was offered a position when it opened up. The rea...

When choosing to pursue any kind of career, you must consider what you derive satisfaction from. Personally, I feel most satisfied when I am able to help satisfy somebody's needs. In marketing and sales, I have the opportunity to probe at someone to figure out their needs, and ultimately deliver ...

I expect the requirements haven’t changed much since my time but they key for P&G was that you are advanced with your flight training (working on or around the commercial) however, still have time after the program to return to ERAU and pass on your experience. In corporate aviation we look for t...

The work-life balance is a great part of the job. Since you’re most likely going to be an independent contractor, the advisors pay you out of their own pockets, so you can request time off with little push back.

A Marketing Assistant at Prudential revolves around assisting financial advisors in their daily tasks with client management services, data entries, and projects that occur randomly throughout the day. It starts out as filing, organizing advisors desks, and making calls on behalf on their behalf....

Training takes place for a week in Atlanta where you will learn how to price home improvement projects, create value in your pitch, and learn all about HDE products.

Sales experience, particularly in-person, whether that be door to door, business to business, or retail. I would also emphasize customer relations and satisfaction, HDE is technically a separate corporate entity from Home Depot itself but you wear an apron just like all other Home Depot employees...

This is the perfect position for someone who has a packed academic schedule, multiple activities on campus that they have going on, or maybe even another internship at the same time. Also, everything that you do is on campus, so that makes life a lot easier. A plus is that you get to network on c...

First, we go through paid training, which involves communications with an assigned "mentor" and your manager as well as training modules and working on presentations. The job really starts once school starts, and the great part about it being a virtual job is that you are able to work whenever yo...

When applying for a sales job, the most common question has been about an experience encountering with a difficult situation, whether it was sales based or a customer satisfactory related. When answering such a question one most be honest and think of the most difficult sell one has done or one o...

It all depends on the Financial Advisor for whom you work. I would say that you should find an FA that you respect on a personal and professional level – one who runs their business with honesty and integrity, not any shady or manipulative business practices. That working relationship will be far...

Prudential Financial to a new national clearinghouse. I spent a lot of time on the phone with clients, assisting them in closing their brokerage and investment accounts and transitioning them to a new software platform. However, traditionally, a Marketing Assistant to a Financial Advisor could do...

The beauty of a liberal arts degree, like my degree in Political Science from Colorado College, lies in its transferable skills. I learned how to communicate with nuance and efficacy; how to analyze concepts, theories, data, and the written word; and how to become highly adaptable in changing cir...

There are plenty of pros associated with the Sales Consultation role, full autonomy to manage day (territory), great support team, commission potential. Also, Verizon offers great benefits, discounts, and 401K matching programs. One thing to consider for the Sales Consultant role in Arizona durin...

Verizon Wireless offers a fantastic training program to all there New Hires for the Sales Consultant position. Before the official training begins, one will have the opportunity to shadow (ride) with an experience colleague to gain real life day to day scenarios. After a day or two (depending on ...

Deloitte has invested so much in their people that they created Deloitte University down in TX. You will go there when you are first hired, and each time you're promoted to learn what is expected at each particular level. Most learning happens 'on the job' but these training courses are also extr...

Disney is a great place to start as it has a lot of people who may know more than you starting out and has ample resources to develop skills that you need for other employers not necessarily hard skills but soft skills.

Pricing Analysts at Disney help look at trending data to help determine what to do with price based on overall business objectives. In my role I looked at promotions so based on the data I had to see what promotions made sense in the grand scheme of things.

Since the E-commerce major is more similar to computer science, I have the skills to clean multiple data and maintain the database. As a marketing analyst intern in the health department, my duty is more focus on cleaning patient data and identify the outliners. Later on, my colleague will use th...

Every day is different, which is why it's so fun and keeps me on my toes. Since Accenture is such a global company, I work with a lot of people around the United States and am on a lot of skype calls learning and networking. My day always starts with a cup of coffee (of course), and then from the...

Prepare with what you know best, yourself. Focus on your strengths and how you can put them towards marketing and the future of marketing. Think about why you are interested in marketing and what you can do to change the way people think about marketing. Marketing is being intertwined with techno...

I have enjoyed every bit being a part of Thomson Reuters; every day used to be filled with positive energy as well as lots of challenges. I was from Nepal and working in Reuters with people from diverse background was a fun and a learning experience. I was very lucky enough to work with very supp...

Since the E-commerce major is more similar to computer science, I have the skills to clean multiple data and maintain the database. As a marketing analyst intern in the health department, my duty is more focus on cleaning patient data and identify the outliners. Later on, my colleague will use th...

This can vary based on the number or PIs and projects you support. You can choose ownership of how to do the work, in terms of management, but it is a very strict environment and ownership is hard to obtain overall.

I like being a part of a research team which helps me to grow professionally. I get to learn a lot from my senior colleagues. This internship also helps me for my own PhD research. I get to present my work to the team and get their feedback. I am directly contributing for the future products. I ...

It may vary from team to team and different geographic locations, but overall I have seen a heavy focus on work-life balance. The company recognizes how important that is, and makes it a priority.

Know the background of company, its products and offerings, and its mission. Have an understanding of the current change in the way media is delivered. Look at how you watch television and note why and how you watch what you watch (Do you binge watch or weekly watch? Do you watch through traditio...

As my career has grown and evolved I have always kept my eyes open to opportunities that both interest me and make myself valuable in today's competitive landscape. An area that I have found this in is big data analysis using data mining skills such as SQL coding & analytical/visual data platform...

What I liked about working as a strategy intern with Siemens was the freedom to steer my own research, which really helped prepare me for independent academic work. Otherwise, it was exciting to learn about the oil and gas industry, which I didn’t know much about. I also really liked my colleague...

As a Research intern at CME Group, you can expect to have full ownership over your work. When I was there, I worked on my own project, and a few other interns did the same. I think they've now changed it so that people work in groups for better collaboration and efficiency. Regardless, as an inte...

I liked the research aspect - going through different reports to figure out what next steps should be or comparing old methods of data collection to newer methods. I didn't like that my team didn't want to utilize technology to optimize their work. I also didn't like the imbalance of work on my ...

Technical Research Assistants will need to have exposure to quantitative research/statistics and experience with a statistical or database programming language. MDRC uses SAS, but values candidate experience with R, SPSS, STATA or SQL. An affinity for the mission of MDRC and an interest in social...

Training involves direct face to face interaction with your Growth Lead (your boss) for a week. The Lead will fly in (most likely from CA) to help practice the pitch, engage team building exercises, and go out marketing with you. After this training session, the Lead flies out to other schools an...

The expected compensation is somewhere around 10-12 dollars an hour, I believe. Hours are also flexible.

The main qualities that should be highlighted, based from my experience, is your ability to communicate and engage in social interaction. When it comes to marketing, those are the qualities that it comes down to. The goal of JoyRun on a campus is to promote growth, and the majority of that is don...

A good elevator pitch for JoyRun would put emphasis on students working with students. Other than weekly video chats, the organization is run by the campus student leaders. It is a fun environment in that sense because it is a team of college students. On top of that, it is USC students who deliv...

The “flexible” hours really means flexible for the company and not the intern. It’s difficult to change up the schedule a week before due to class conflicts and pre-arranged activities like volunteering, studying with others, etc. Also my team lacked qualified seniors to lead us so we were not ve...

The main qualities/experiences that should be highlighted in an interview for a Growth Lead Intern position at JoyRun would be your experience as a leader or team member where you were given a plan and were able to implement it. Qualities including creativity, leadership, good teamwork, and probl...

Tasks are pretty much allocated as people volunteer for them, so you really get what you put into the job. There are minimum requirements, such as how many hours per week you need to work as a “runner” or doing marketing activities, in addition to attending a weekly in-person team meeting. There ...

Being able to act outside of your comfort-zone and become friends with strangers are the two most vital skills for the Growth Marketer positions t JoyRun. People who can comfortably talk with anyone are perfect for this position.

The expected compensation for a Growth Lead Intern as Joy Run is $10 per hour. You will also be paid while using the app on top of the regular runner's compensation.

I would make sure to clear yourself on differences in music marketing vs. other areas of marketing that you may have experience with. What do you think works? What doesn't? The music industry is a fast paced world full of variety. I would also be familiar with some music publication sites, just t...

What I liked about working there was they knew it was my first official music internship. They took the time to explain how the business worked. They also gave my projects based on my interest. For example, I enjoy doing research so they let me research events and artists for them.What I disliked...

I liked the flexibility of our position. We were able to work on projects that were important to FindLaw as a whole and made a small impact on how other content marketers and strategists worked with clients. Everyone I spoke with was excited that we were here and so willing to talk about their ex...

The Nature Conservancy is a large nonprofit with millennials taking on many respected roles within the company. As an intern you will be assigned tasks, but there is room to be creative in how you complete them. Managers want Interns to use their creativity and value anyone willing to provide new...

I cannot speak on this experience first without informing you about the culture of the company. Culture has shaped, helped, guided, and inspired me throughout my internship experience. Before doing my own personal research about the company, I grasped that culture was the company’s backbone. It w...

A day in the life of a marketing intern at Joy Run is super chill. It’s mostly you picking your own hours and when you want to work. You do have to do some tabling and flyering but it enables you to meet and talk to so many new people. You also get to do deliveries with an added $15/per hour whil...

Each week, I was responsible for scheduling and developing social media content. This means I would generate an outline for 12-15 posts to be shared on platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and GooglePlus throughout the week. Work For Progress has specific brand standards for ...

L'Oréal does an incredible job on-boarding interns. Before starting, my supervisor sent me a lot of docs such as the "Intern Bible" and the "Market Overview" to introduce me to all the acronyms and people with whom I would interact every day. Orientation is a day and a half long. The first day is...

L'Oréal is an amazing company and place to work! There are three adjectives I would say summarize the kind of people they like to employ: patient, resilient, and adventurous. Patience is important since, common in large companies that have HQs in nearly every country, sometimes things take a lon...

I gained a lot of experience at L'Oreal during my time there. Although I was an intern, I was heavily involved in the "thick" of the business. I worked closely with our Sales counterparts to execute promotions and marketing collateral for accounts such as ULTA, Regis and Salon Centric. I was prim...

Reynolds and Reynolds is THE place to kick start a career in Digital Marketing. While my future occupation does not include work of that sort, it helped me get my feet wet in the corporate world and gain professional experience in a field I was not familiar with. My fellow interns are still frien...

My experience at Reynolds was incomparable. The company possessed a great reputation, while remaining people-focused. When I say people-focused, I don't mean just the employees and the clients, but the community, as well. Working the typical 8 hour day during my internship, my post 4:00 p.m. life...

My mentor at Reynolds was more of an individual to teach me the ropes of the organization. The Digital Marketing Internship for NakedLime at Reynolds and Reynolds encompasses everything from Search Engine Optimization and Social Media to Media Design and Advertising. Zach, my mentor, specialized ...