Last February, we had the pleasure of meeting hundreds of YouIntern users at the BDI Career Fair on the New York University campus.
We're pleased to be invited back to another BDI event -- this time, it's the GeneratioNext Advertising Industry Diversity Job Fair and Leadership Conference. All of the details are below, so please stop by, say hi, post an internship review or search for a new one!
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As part of the GeneratioNext program, BDI on behalf of Advertising Week, AAAA’s Ad Council, Adrants, and AdAge Talent Works is producing the GeneratioNext Advertising Industry Diversity Job Fair & Leadership Conference. This national event will be a full day program with a morning leadership conference, which will offer an opportunity for job candidates to come face to face with today’s notable thought leaders working in the advertising industry. The afternoon will be dedicated to hosting a Job Fair with recruiting companies including:
We're pleased to announce that we were featured in Advertising Age this morning, in the Talentworks section. Anand Chopra-McGowan, a YouIntern partner, was privileged to be interviewed by Michael Bush on the subject of advertising talent, the value of internships and the growing demand for talent.
We're extra pleased that Maurice Haynes, who supported us in our partnership with Arnold Worldwide, chimed in with some words of support.
The article lives here. Have a read! And thanks to everyone for their support.
Here’s an interesting post that was written on a Northwestern University blog yesterday.
The title may catch you off-guard, and you’re probably wondering why we’re sharing it with you, especially considering our goal is to get you into more internships, and better ones at that.
As Ms. Behar writes, “the primary benefit, according to [Northwestern University Professor Steven] Duke, isn’t just the workplace lifestyle – it’s your boss, and his or her potential for serving as an impressive reference.”
It’s true, and you can get this sort of experience at most summer jobs, or volunteering at a non-profit, and that will look great on your resume.
Shane Hutton is Creative Director at Modernista!, and has led creative ideas for Hummer, Cadillac, and countless other brands. Who else would you want giving you portfolio tips? We're grateful that Shane took so much time and provided such rich information, so have a read and enjoy.
1. Make it small. Preferably pocket sized. Something the people you want to show it to can slip into their pocket or purse and look at on a plane.
2. Make the cover interesting. That's the first thing we see. Make it count.
3. Avoid puns.
4. Don't be afraid to throw in things that tell people about you personally. Not just your work. A page here or there with no marketing on it, but that is entertaining and reflective of your taste, helps to break the book up into digestible chunks.
YouIntern.com is pleased to announce a new partnership with Tangerine, a talent placement service in New York City.
We’re especially proud to launch this partnership because Tangerine’s goals are similar to ours: placing candidates in companies where they will prove to be the best fit. While Tangerine deals with more senior-level placements, and we’re more committed to internships, our motives are pretty similar.
The internship at Tangerine promises to be an interesting and unique one: you’ll glimpse into the dynamic world of talent recruitment while working in a creative environment, managing some resumes and absorbing as much as you can.
The process will work similar to our Arnold partnership: anyone who reviews a new internship and sends us their resume will be eligible. The deadline on this opportunity is May 20th. Good luck and keep checking YouIntern.com – we’ll have more of these opportunities shortly.
This article brings up an important point: high school students are looking for internships sooner and sooner, and this creates competition for college kids who are closer to their job hunt and rely on internships to bolster their resumes.
The problem? High school kids think that internships make them look more competitive in the eyes of college admissions officers.
Now, this article sure doesn’t mention anything groundbreaking. Hey, you should search online for internships. Oh, you should network, as well. And by the way, they’re important for your career. Earth shattering, I know. But the takeaway is just as easy to understand as this was to write: everybody needs internships. Soon, middle school kids will be hunting for internships thanks to their overzealous parents, so for college kids, the hustle just got that much harder.
YouIntern.com is pleased to announce the winners of the three exclusive Account Management interviews at Arnold Worldwide, Boston. After reading through dozens of resumes from talented students who reviewed their internships on YouIntern.com, we're pleased to announce that Andy Tam, Ritesh Sethi and Leigh Warrington have been chosen for the interviews at Arnold.
Stay close to YouIntern.com -- we'll keep you updated with our newsletters, but we'll be bringing more of these contests in the coming weeks and months. It's all part of our goal to get you closer to the best internship, so keep your resumes updated and ready for submission.
There's a fantastic article in today's New York Times that introduces us to some college juniors and seniors who have lost their offers from Bear Stearns. You should be familiar with Bear Stearns' collapse and JPMorgan's subsequent acquisition, but while this affected thousands of investors and billions of dollars of invested money, there's a lot of relevance for college juniors and seniors.
Bear had extended job offers to approximately 300 graduating seniors and 300 internships for rising seniors, and these students quickly found themselves stuck in mud: the seniors were without a job, well after the finance hiring season had ended, and the Wall Street job market was thin. Interns had also let the hiring season (correctly) elapse with their offers in hand.
Rachel Tigges is a Marketing Associate at 24Seven, one of the largest fashion and entertainment placement agencies in the industry. We know that we're typically focused on advertising and marketing, but we've received interest about this industry and thought that it's always better to provide more content than restrict it. With that in mind, Rachel has offered some advice on graduates seeking to break into this ultra-competitive market.
So you want a job in fashion?
Let 24 Seven help take you there. True to our name, we are always here for you. We are the Premier International Recruitment Company working with the biggest names and the best brands in fashion, retail, beauty, marketing, advertising, & entertainment both nationally and internationally.
Hi there – just checking in, making sure you’re doing well. Some of you may be new here, and that could be thanks to two recent college newspaper articles that gave us some coverage.
First, the Massachusetts Daily Collegian, published at UMass Amherst, gave us some wonderful coverage, and Maurice Haynes, VP, Director of Worklife at Arnold Worldwide, had this to say:
"[Youintern.com] is really providing a forum for prospective employers, and for students to learn something about the internship process," he said. "It's creating a pipeline for the future of stronger interns. In the long run, it will give us [Arnold Worldwide] a stronger pool of applicants to choose from."
The connection? He’s putting his words into actions, as he’s helped us create our partnership with Arnold (more on that tomorrow).
