Hi, my name is Ashley and I am about to be a Temple grad this August! I was fortunate enough to discover a paid graphic design internship at Iperdesign in the beautiful Olde City. My initial reaction towards beginning this internship was that I would get a lot of exciting pieces to add to my portfolio, but I was wrong. When working for real clients in an advertising agency, there are a lot of trials, many meetings, and several executions that go into finalizing a campaign or a rebrand. I quickly realized as a design intern, my part is very exciting,…

I am an art director currently interning at Philly’s own Skate Jawn magazine. For those who are unfamiliar with the magazine, it is a bi-monthly skateboard magazine based here in Philadelphia with a focus on the core elements of skateboarding culture. This has been quite an unconventional internship however I am most certainly passionate about the work I have been doing over the past few weeks. Here, I am helping the team develop an artist section in the magazine where we can showcase and feature skateboard-related visual artists. I am also busy designing flyers for events. Not only am I…

Last week I was called into my supervisors office. At first I was kind of nervous because I thought maybe I did something wrong but I knew that wasn’t it. So I walk into the room and sit down. My supervisor asks me would I like to take photos for an hour at the Best of Style Party. The Best of Style Party is hosted by the Borgata at the Kimmel Center. The theme is Midnight in Paris and lots of fabulous people in the fashion, real-estate, beauty, travel, philanthropy, entertainment, home décor, architecture industries will be there. It will…

Sadly, my time at Weston Fitness is slowly coming to an end. So, far, I’ve created several marketing strategies- both online and offline. Each of which I’ve been able to fully implement into Westons’ business model. Initially, I figured that I’d meet a hefty amount of resistance when trying to do so, given that I’m a young college student working amongst more experience. The team, however, was very open and receptive to my ideas. They told me they appreciated a younger persons perspective, which made me feel pretty important. Furthermore, my strategies seem to be working pretty well. On social…

As the Summer 1 semester is soon to come to a close, I am saddened to think how time has gone by so fast! My internship will definitely be one to remember. I plan to use the wisdom and connections I have gained in my near future. As for my initial expectations of this PR, Marketing, and Special Events internship, I assumed I was going to do little tasks and boring activities to take up time. I know so many people who have had internships and had to simply get coffee, separate mail, and complete tasks that were unrelated to their…

Hello hello all! My name is Becky Juda and I am currently a senior with a focus on Account Management. As I am soon to graduate this December, I decided to take an internship this summer to get my foot into the door in the advertising industry. I never imagined getting an internship would be so hard – considering I am working for free for a company. Lucky enough, I currently intern at a local PR, Marketing, and Special Events firm in Center City of Philly. I am a Account Executive Intern for Cachet Communications. It is a very small…

  Obviously for an internship, your hours aren’t going to be the same as your full-time job. I work downtown at ChatterBlast and one of the first things they asked us – even before our orientation day – was what kind of schedule we’d like and our vacation plans. My only experience before this was for a designer, where there was no set schedule and I’d come in with night-before notice. So not only was a set schedule really refreshing so I wasn’t always on-call, but it was surprising to see how a more concrete business position actually works, partly based on my past…

Over the last few weeks since I posted my first post, I have worked on two different power-points plans for  presentations that went on to be used for webinars (online web seminar) given by the the co-founder/ president of the company (Local Vox Media). I have been also been working on transferring clients from the old marketing platform to the new one which has taught me a lot of different skills required for this that I hadn’t thought about or considered learning. This internship, although coming to a close, is keeping me mentally challenged with a new task of some…

My experience at Max Steel Plate (MSP) as an Advertising Intern, has been very positive so far. Since the company is new, I knew that I could make an immediate impact on their social media presence and their customer relationship. My copywriting background as well as the broad-spectrum of advertising skills that I have learned at Temple would enable me to be an asset to the company right away. I am the only intern, which is a large challenge that I am looking forward to. Being a part of a small company has been a great experience; there is a…

Hello! I see you’ve stumbled upon this quirky little post. My name is Deanna L Gormisky. Deanna is just fine. I am a copywriter who is interning at Harris Tea Company in New Jersey. Maybe you’ve heard of them; maybe you haven’t. I’d go into the spiel of their address, which is 344 New Albany Road, and how they’re about 15 minutes away from the Betsy, and how they’ve been in business for an extremely long time, but that’s taking away from what they do: they make tea. That is all you need to know. Or, is it? I’m joking.…

Now that my internship at Max Steel Plate is coming to an end I have gained so much more knowledge about the business and I have learned how to sell steel. I believe that this has been beneficial for me better understand the consumers of the steel products and potential customers that Max Steel Plate is selling. Overall my experience at Max Steel Plate has been positive. Everyone has embraced my creative approach to attracting new customers. Since gaining knowledge about Max Steel Plate and the steel industry as a whole it has enabled me to find the most effective ways to differentiate…

Hello fellow advertisers. My name is Latifah Alrasheed and I am an international student from Kuwait. I am interning at Financial Integrity Resources Management, LLC. Also known as FIRM. The CEO and owner of FIRM contacted me after attending the international Career-link event at Temple hoping to get my first advertising internship and I was lucky to be chosen as the marketing and advertising intern at FIRM. Being an international student is not easy. living in a whole new culture thousands of miles away from your family and friends. Where you must learn to be responsible and independent after just…

I am a marketing Intern at Localvox media; I am thoroughly enjoying my experience here, although it is a short internship for approximately 6 weeks. In the short time I have been here I have learned quite a lot. I have had to learn to use a variety of different programs such as Photoshop, Gimp (which is very similar to Photoshop) it is a free photo editing software but it is not as advanced or have the same amount  of options as Photoshop does. Although I am here as a Marketing interning, I am doing some graphic design while the…

So far, being an account executive intern for Temple News has been a great experience. Thinking of different businesses to contact and reasons as to how having their ad in the Temple News can benefit them is great. It gets you to thinking deeper and building my persuasive skills. Whenever I go out to places to eat or shop I now think to myself if this store can benefit from having their ads in the Temple News then I introduce myself to the manager to get further contact. Interning at the Temple News has made it even easier to network…