Hi! My name is Bree and I am an intern at Jump Magazine in Philly. My job is to write articles for print and blog. I write a weekly post about what to do this weekend in Philly. I also go to shows and interview bands. In addition, I help with distribution, editing and fact checking. My major is advertising, so I also help with finding businesses to advertise in the magazine to keep it running.   Considering that Jump is such a small magazine I wasn’t sure what to expect. Would it be like a large magazine? I really…

I’ll start by saying it feels like the summer is just about to start now in mid August. Working as a full-time design intern for Digitas Health in center city isn’t really a cushy 9-5 schedule. Its more like – stroll in sometime around 10am and leave between the hours of 6 and 10pm feeling like you forgot something or someone important. I’m not really sure what hours I’ll be working on a given day. And that doesn’t include work I may have over the weekend too. It can get busy. But then, if I wasn’t busy id probably have…

Hi! I am Hyeri interning in TAF JK Group which is a web design and branding company. I am an advertising intern, so I am working projects related to advertising and marketing. Because the company is small, workers are like family and the atmosphere is flexible and free. While I am working free work place, I realized that several tips to be a good worker.   FIRST: Don’t let your attention loose! In the free atmosphere, it is easy that our attention would be slackening about the schedule. People usually do not want to work on Monday. I also felt…

Hello, everyone! I am Hyeri. Currently, I am doing an internship as an advertising intern in TAF JK Group which is a web design and branding company.   I am interested in marketing, so I wanted to experience it. On my first day of the internship, my boss asked me what I expect to learn. I talked about my interests and he allowed me to participate in a new project which is launching a website for the Philly Korean community. The website is offering yellow pages of Korean businesses in Philadelphia, Korean news, Korean restaurant ratings, and so on. On…

My summer internship is with Hamilton Jewelers, however in the insignia and business gifts department.  Hamilton has retail stores throughout the US, a corporate office in New Jersey and an insignia department in Philly- right along Broad St.  The commute is great, and I love what I have been doing, however explaining to people what I do is very confusing.  Hamilton Insignia deals with a very niche market and makes all of the insignia (pins, medals, jewelry, sashes) for organizations like Daughters of the American Revolution and Daughters of Indian Wars.  In my interview my bosses compared these organizations to me as…

Today marks the last week of my internship, and I am happy to be able to say that I had an excellent time doing it. My coworkers at Harmelin happily welcomed me, and most importantly guided me through the process of paid search advertising—a form of online advertising hosted on search engine websites and providing relevant advertisement to user searches. While it took some time at first to grasp the entire task of developing a search campaign, after breaking it down and asking plenty of questions, the ‘campaign build’ was learned in a couple of weeks, and I was left…

Good morning, afternoon, or evening (for whatever time you happen to be reading this!), I’m Austin Sabattis, the S3 Agency’s (former) copywriting intern. Besides my complete shock that it’s August, meaning school will soon be starting up again, I’m absolutely blown away at how fast the time went while interning at S3. It feels like yesterday I was shown my desk and handed my first brief. Since then I’ve not only grown as a copywriter, but developed a comfort with words and writing unlike ever before. Temple’s advertising department has prepared me for the agency world in every way imaginable,…

Throughout the summer I had a great experience at Xfinity Live! doing a lot of the Audio/Visual work for the venue. This included being in charge of all the TV’s in the venue, and doing a little bit of DJing. As the summer comes to an end, so does my time at Xfinity, but not before some interesting things I’ve worked on!   At first I started working on Motion Graphics for the billboards at my supervisor’s other venue. I then started making things for Xfinity Live. This includes advertisements for upcoming events, and even event media, such as video…

About a month and a half into my paid search internship with Harmelin Media this summer, I was surprised with the exciting news that our team would be taking a trip to visit our Google reps in New York City. Two weeks later the dozen-or-so of us met up outside the office (at 6:30 am, the only downside of the trip) and headed up the interstate and into NYC’s Meat Packing District. For those unfamiliar with the term, ‘Paid Search’ is a form of online advertising hosted on search engines—primarily Google and Yahoo/Bing!—and intuitively displays all-copy ads relevant to a…

Hi Everyone, My first summer internship in New York City, the Mecca of advertising and marketing, is a dream come true for me.  I am extremely thrilled to have gotten this opportunity to learn, network, and build on the skills I have gained through two years of education at Temple Ad department.I feel so lucky to be one of them to work in the heart of city ‘Manhattan.’ Let me tell you more about this company. The company I am interning at is an Indian publication company, publishing a total of three newspapers publications – News India Times (national weekly…

Hi Everyone, After I was successful in my first few tasks given to me, I made few recommendations to improve their brands on the basis of the feedbacks got from the customers. I brought those issues in front of my boss and he was shocked as well as impressed and gave me a very important task of building their online and social media presence. My hard work and patience were paid off. Right now, I am working on their social media platforms like Facebook, twitter and Pinterest including the logo. Excited!!! So at the end I will give you few…

Let me offer you a few definitions of the word INTERN: n. A student or recent graduate undergoing supervised practical training.  (thefreedictionary.com) n. People who are hired to do menial monotonous work that you couldn’t pay people people to do long term because they would quit (urbandicitonary.com) Okay, so I think we all go into an internship hoping that it fits more closely to the first definition I provided. But, I think our experience ends up being a combination of the two. We still do not have enough knowledge to do the work of a paid employee, but we are there to…