Internship Tips From the Pros
As I type and you read this, I am in the middle of looking for an internship for this summer. The curriculum of pubic relations requires each student to participate in a semester-long, public relations-driven internship before he or she graduates. It’s a great idea, but boy it can be hard work.
I had an internship the summer after my sophomore year in college with a great program called Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation. I learned sooo much there, but it didn’t count toward my internship credit (long story). So, now I am looking for another one in the Auburn/Opelika and Montgomery areas. And let me tell you, it’s going pretty slow.
Good news though, I do have an interview set for next week, so keep your fingers crossed for me. Since I am going through the interviewing process, and I know most of my fellow classmates are too, I thought it would be appropriate to post something about interviewing techniques.
I surfed the Web and found a couple of articles that I will try to put into use next week. So, look at them and hopefully you too can gleam some knowledge from them. Good luck in your search!
- Five Ways to Do Better in Phone Interviews -Penelope Trunk, “Brazen Careerist”
- Internship Help Information -Jennifer A. Shifler, “The Public Relations Internship Manual”
- Monster.com Internship Listing
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Would they give you credit for a virtual internship? I am in LA. I used to be a successful Event Producer (Oscars, Miramax, ICM, Disney, Nash Entertainment) who has started her own company for Search Engine Optimization and Internet marketing. I build blogs for restaurants, design templates and handouts, upload databases, send out mailstorm campaigns, install tracking and hence, directly increase sales. I need help inputting data and doing research to find new directories and where to post local event listings. I think you saw one of my Blogs for Drago Ristorante. All my Blogs appear on page 1 of Google with very basic searches required and my company is expanding FAST!
I would send you a list of links with the data to be input and then several tests to run to track goal conversions, link popularity and traffic. Let me know.
Posted May 14, 2007, 4:49 pmHave a great day,
Pamela