Are you an Intern Queen Fanatic? Do you catch yourself checking out new listings and internship tips on a daily basis? We’d love to hear from you and have you apply for our Intern Queen Campus Ambassador Program.
Our Campus Ambassador’s are responsible for testing new products, providing feedback, and helping us spread the Intern Queen message. Ambassador’s must volunteer at most 5 hours per month and must currently attend high school, community college, or a 4-year college/university.
To apply, please send one paragraph explaining why it’s important for your campus to understand the need for internships. Please send your applications along with your contact information, school you attend, and your year in school to alyssa@internqueen.com.
We will be selecting the Intern Queen Campus Ambassadors within 2 weeks. Good luck everyone!
Here at Intern Queen Inc & InternQueen.com we get tons of testimonials from students, parents, career centers, and employers who are happy with their services for one reason or another. However, upon reading this note from ROAR, I simply had to share it with you. I’ve removed Christopher’s last name for privacy purposes but I really do congratulate him on making a wonderful impression at a great Management Company.
Intern Queen,
It was a great pleasure to have Christopher as my intern here at ROAR. ROAR specializes in talent and brand management, and advisory service for the entertainment industry. It also has a well regarded literature department, to which Christopher’s background was a perfect fit. As a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Screen and Television Writing, Christopher displayed the knowledge that was expected of him the moment he came to intern.
After the first few weeks, I recognized Christopher’s commitment to proving himself as a valuable member to not just the literature department, but the entire ROAR team. Since coming in May, Christopher has been fully engrossed with the day to day workings of the literary department, along with taking the time to help other departments that have been short handed. While at ROAR he has mastered a wide skill set, ranging from administrative duties to script and story analysis and has done all these task with a positive attitude.
I appreciated the work Christopher gave and continues to give at ROAR and I truly am grateful to the people at InternQueen who provided me with such an excellent partner to work alongside. InternQueen is a wonderful service that I will use again, and I will most definitely be helping Christopher in his promising career.
As the Intern Queen, you could say that I’m addicted to internships. Or that when I was in college, I was addicted to internships. You might be an Intern-A-Holic if…..
1. You are currently a summer intern and spend most of your time looking for fall internships.
2. You’re only a freshman or sophmore and you’ve already participated in an internship or two or three….
3. You are constantly looking up places to work & people you admire.
4. You tweet everyday and are very aware of your favorite employers & career/internship experts on Twitter.
5. You NEED to know that you have the coolest internships out of all of your friends.
6. You’ve already had bad experiences with the printer, copy machine, and coffee machine.
7. You’ve started blogging about your internship experiences.
8. You’ve already thought about where you want to intern Summer 2011…and maybe Summer 2012.
9. You aren’t supposed to work on the weekends but can’t help checking your intern email account and doing research for Monday.
10. You spend more than anyone you know thinking about internships, social networking, and your future.
After spending the majority of my evening last night on the gorgeous rooftop of Hotel Erwin in Venice Beach for the Girls in Tech Los Angeles Summer Event (http://www.girlsintech.net), I had to write a blog on networking events. Personally, I’ve enjoyed my time on the executive board for GITLA because let’s face it – everyone is in tech. Everyone uses technology in their day to day in some way or another. Tech spans from entertainment to web development to fashion, all fields that interest me. If you’ve stumbled across my blog, you are probably interestesd in the tech field in some way and I suggest you check out your local Girls in Tech chapter at http://www.girlsintech.net.
My advice for networking events is two fold depending on if you are an intern or a recent graduate/entry-level employee.
I suggest that interns get involved with everything they can on a trial basis. As an intern, constantly ask people about the networking groups they are involved with. When you have the opportunity to chat with executives and professionals at your company, ask them what networking groups they belong to. Also, ask them if you might be able to attend one of that organization’s events and who you should contact to try it out. In another city for the summer? This is the perfect time for you to check out new networking groups and see which are a fit.
Before you go, ask yourself the following:
1. What is my objective? What to I want to get out of this event?
2. What types of people do I want to meet and what do I want to make sure they know about me?
For entry-level employees & those who have been around networking events in the past, it’s time to be a little more selective. You will learn after time that it’s actually not that much fun to go to a different networking event every night and it actually costs lots of money and can prevent you from getting other work done. I encourage you to write out all of the groups that you currently have relationships with. Then take a moment and ask yourself, “what’s missing?” What are you NOT getting out of these groups, pretend you are an intern again, go back and experiment with new groups and find what you are looking for.
Remember, don’t be a part of a group because your friends are. Do this for yourself. Make sure that you see value in your time commitment. Decide which group is most important to you and become very involved and active – even seek out executive board positions. It’s the people who want to be involved in everything and who cannot say no that seem to have the most problems with networking events. Be selective. Come prepared. Take something away.
