I’ve interned at Tierney for almost a year now and many people ask me what the most beneficial part of my experience has been. Since my internship has been so amazing I give them a long list of things I’ve enjoyed including summer intern projects, brainstorming sessions, secondary research and reception. That last item often confuses people, how can sitting at the reception desk for an hour every few days be one of the coolest parts of the internship experience? Well here are the top three reasons that sitting at the reception desk has been one of the coolest parts…

During my time interning for the Temple Small Business Development Center, I learned a lot of valuable things about small businesses, marketing, advertising, and myself. To own and operate a small business takes a lot of hard work and determination. The two clients who I had the pleasure of working with both faced daily struggles. To be a small business owner you must be resilient. Sometimes you have to be able to drop everything, pick up again, and start a whole new marketing plan in the blink of an eye. SOS Daters, a dating coaching service, was the company that…

Working at Sodexo this semester has been an exceptional experience for me. In only a few months I have become much more adept in the Adobe Design Suite, I have come to understand corporate structure and I’ve even networked a little bit across campus. In the time that I have worked here I have been promoted twice, not in pay but in responsibility. I’ve been put in charge of both the Temple Dining social media accounts and Baker Dave’s Facebook. I have learned a lot about social media and using it to a company’s advantage. This is beneficial to me…

In two weeks my internship at Tierney will be over. If you asked me freshman year if I would ever get the chance to intern at my dream agency I would have told you no. Now, after one year of interning I am nothing but grateful. Interning at Tierney has given me a newfound appreciate for the advertising industry and helped me develop many necessary skills to prepare me for my future career. I came into my internship in January with very little practical knowledge about the advertising industry. I had taken a ton of advertising classes but didn’t understand…

For the last few weeks at my internship I’ve been working on the same project. One of the agency’s clients requested an audit of all videos on their websites, and due to the setup of the websites and the information needed, the process must me done manually.  Unfortunately, with the client having numerous sub-divisions and each site for each sub-division containing a hundred videos, this project was very time-extensive. My supervisors were very supportive throughout my work and routinely checked in with me, but I can’t say that I was very motivated to complete such a mundane task.  However, once I…

When I interviewed for the position of Account Management Intern I made it very clear what I was looking for. Since I believe that it is important for an Account Manager to understand how all departments work, I asked to work with as many departments as possible to prepare for a career. My employer was very helpful in making this happen, and within the first week I had already worked with many different teams on separate accounts. I soon became familiar with PR operations on both large and small accounts, with print and outdoor Media Planning, and was able to observe…

This past spring, I had an internship with Crossmedia in Philadelphia. Crossmedia is a media planning firm and though I did not necessarily want to pursue media in my advertising career, I wanted to gain a better understanding of the media side as my focus has been copywriting. I was received very well during this internship (they are an incredibly welcoming group to work with) and after the internship, I stayed in touch with some of the members of Crossmedia. As the fall semester approached, I was contacted by Crossmedia to help them with some copywriting work they were looking…

It sounds ironic to take a creative break from creative work, but it is not an uncommon occurrence at Crossmedia in Philadelphia. One day this semester, I was asked by the team at Crossmedia if I wanted to watch Law and Order with them. I thought it was some sort of inside joke that I wasn’t aware of. As it turned out, it was not a joke and it was a really fun “creative break” that the staff occasionally took. In a similar manner to Mystery Science Theatre, we would get together, put an episode of the show on the…