LevLane is no “boutique” ad agency. However, it is also by no means huge. With about 60 employees, they fall squarely in the middle. At a larger agency, it’s easy to be concerned that you’ll be lost in the shuffle, or that the most work you’ll be doing is remembering everyone’s coffee orders. At a smaller one, having someone breathe down your neck while you’re trying to work and watching every little thing is both disconcerting and no way to get creative work done. That’s what I loved about working at LevLane. I was given the space to do the…

I was very fortunate to land an internship at the law firm Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman, & Goggin (Marshall Dennehey for short). However, I was a little uneasy about being an advertising major working for attorneys, as I’m sure we all know how those ads usually turn out. I appreciate the work, but I didn’t want to be stuck writing variations on “we don’t get paid until you do!” for the entire semester. Fortunately, we do not advertise in the traditional sense. Rather, we focus on marketing efforts. And while it isn’t exactly my field of study, I learned a lot…

I hope you all got that Spongebob reference, except I actually learned a lot working at the Independence Seaport Museum as a Marketing and PR intern.  The experience gave me a chance to learn how to do tasks that I wouldn’t learn inside a classroom.  I got to go to office meetings that I wouldn’t get to experience in Annenberg.  And overall my time at the Museum was a valuable tool to learn the aspects of a full time job that I can’t see in a classroom and decide which of those I want and do not want. I worked…

Finally, it is coming down to an end. Not only is my time at Harmelin Media winding down, but my time as an undergrad at Temple as well. I feel very confident that Harmelin and Temple have put me in a great position to succeed in the future. Although I admit that finding a job will be stressful, hard work will eventually pay off. Harmelin especially has taught me the first steps of being a professional and working within a professional environment, and for that I am truly grateful. It is encouraging to be given such great reviews from your…

I came into college with the belief that I was absolutely certain advertising was the career I wanted to pursue. As my college career continued, I found myself enjoying my advertising classes and being even more certain that I had found the right major for me. Because I wanted to be an account manager, I decided to declare a business minor. Once I began my business minor, I realized that, while business and communications are very similar, they are also very different. There were things that I liked about both, and suddenly I found myself uncertain of what exactly I wanted to…

I’ve spent much of my free time at college agonizing over The Big Decision—or more specifically, what I want to do for the rest of my life. They tell you time and time again that that’s what college is all about, so the longer I spent at Temple without making up my mind, the more panicked I felt. While I have managed to graduate from the ‘All I know is that I don’t like math’ phase to something a little more concentrated (double-tracking in Copywriting and Art Direction as an Ad major), I always struggled with never feeling like a…

In the beginning of January I had the opportunity to start an advertising/social media internship with a small jewelry company named Wild Lilies Jewelry (WLJ). This was not an agency nor a large company for that matter, but the learning experience was greater than anything for which I could have asked. Since WLJ is such a small company I had the opportunity to work side-by-side with the CEO of the company, Stephanie Greenbaum, on a daily basis. This alone was a valuable experience because as a Temple University graduate, Stephanie was not only able to share with me tools and…

I currently work at Temple Small Business Development Center as a Creative Consultant, which means I create business cards, brochures, etc. for clients. The client I am currently working has really changed my perspective on some of my work. Upon meeting with her she requested a simple logo – she had nothing in mind but something simple and readable. After her request I resulted to Google searching simple logos that brought me to the most common logos such as the Nike Swoop and the FedEx logo, which made me realize that a simple logo is even more complex than the…

I am a copywriter at Temple, but I am not sure where that is going to take me. Don’t get me wrong I love advertising, I really do, but I don’t really see myself at an agency, although I would be open to taking a job if one offered. My internship is at the BQ Golf Academy in Conshohocken and no it’s not an agency. My job is to manage all of the social networking sites as well as help create ideas and build advertisement concepts. I am so grateful that I was able to use what I learned at…