For this blog post, I figured I would take all the questions that people have been asking me in regards to my internship experience and compile them all in one spot. I’m pretty sure other people who are interested as well, will find these questions and answers useful.   Q: Do you get free tickets to the games as interns? A: Yes. Sometimes we will get complimentary tickets to the games and we’re allowed up to two tickets since we are only interns   Q: Do they pay you? A: No, but you get college credit   Q: Do you…

Here are six lessons that I learned from Kembrel: Always be early. You never know when the bus/train or a road is going to be closed. And, if you are delivering something, giving yourself more time is rule number one. Triple check your work, be swift and strong-willed so you have time to finish your work and check it. Always smile and greet everyone. It may be an investor, family member or new employee. Do your research. Look at competitors, find new ideas and know what is going on the industry. Write all instructions down and make lists to stay…

The internship at the March of Dimes has taught me many different things that I didn’t previously think I would learn. The biggest thing that I have learned is to be patient. There are a lot of people who work on an event or campaign and there will always be conflicting ideas and opinions. Working side by side with multiple other people to conquer the same task is never easy, and it’s even harder when the task is throwing large events with auctions, guest lists, seating charts, and speeches. The experience that I had during my internship with the March…

10 more days, that is what is left of my college career. It’s so weird to think it was just 4 years ago that I was taking my first advertising class (media and society with wonderful Ms. Saewitz of course). I guess this post is more a reflection of the things I did right that may help other students in the future. I was very fortunate that I found a passion for advertising at a very early stage. Loving what you do definitely helps you in so many ways, but you also have to take that motivation and turn it…

At the start of my internship I had many butterflies.  What will my boss be like?  How uptight are they?  Will I learn many things that will help me in the future? I could not predict how things would go, but I came in there ready.  Ready to get my feet wet, ready to contribute, and ready to gain much needed experience.  Starting from January to now I have learned so much at Defined Clarity Inc.  I have mastered not only the job at hand, but skills that will help me throughout life.  How to be confident when speaking to…

My name is Lauren Bayer. I am a senior in the account management track at Temple University. I currently hold an internship at Allied Integrated Marketing in center city. Allied is a full-service advertising agency and public relations firm with capabilities including placement of print and broadcast advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional campaigns. Since my supervisor is the primary representative for the ScreenGems account, I mainly work on ScreenGems movies which makes me ScreenGem’s intern. Throughout January I work was concentrated on planning events for the movie “The Vow” in the Philadelphia area. I determined which businesses have the same…

Hello all, I am Austin Heron and I’m a senior advertising major with a current internship at Harmelin Media.  Harmelin Media is located just outside of Philly in Bala Cynwyd.  I have been a media planner intern since January and so far it’s been great.  I am working with a Media Planner assistant on a new upcoming campaign for SEPTA which is aiming at a much younger audience.  The target audience is 18-34 and the goal of the campaign is to get young people to become comfortable with using SEPTA to take them anywhere they need in Philly and the…

Perhaps one of the most surprising things to me I have discovered while interning at the advertising agency Tierney, and I’m not sure why, is just how much of the skills and knowledge I have been taught in my advertising classes thus far are actually utilized on a daily basis in the profession. Now I know that might sound a little silly, but oftentimes for me it was hard to imagine putting to use what I have learned in a real-life situation so now that I am being given the chance to do so it almost feels unreal. The fact…

Klein Hersh International is a full-service executive search firm for the life sciences and information technology fields. They provide retained and contingency search services as well as contract staffing in the life sciences and IT niches. When searching for clients they look for their core values: integrity, honesty, full disclosure and partnership. As an intern for Klein Hersh, I work on creating Internet research projects seeking out talented individuals to fit the specific needs of our clients, entering information into our database, working on our LinkedIn site and some administrative work. So far my experience has taught me how to narrow in…