At some point during your internship search, you've probably read at least one article about what to wear to a job interview . If you've already had an interview or two, you were probably stressed out about the decision: blue shirt or white shirt? or some other mundane detail like that. For a lot of people, what to wear to an interview is a much bigger issue. That's where Dress for Success comes in. They are a New York City based non-profit that aims to "promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life." Every year Dress for Success and their affiliates across the world help more than 40,000 women become better prepared to land a job. Continue reading about Dress for Success...
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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 29, 2009 at 7:08 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
There are countless celebrities who support charitable causes. There are many who throw their full support behind a single organization; however, few celebs are as personally invested in their charitable work as Michael J. Fox is. Why is he so invested? Because his life is on the line. He is suffering from Parkinson's Disease, "a degenerative disease of the brain that often impairs motor skills, speech, and other functions." If you've seen Michael J. Fox on tv lately, you've seen what Parkinson's does to the human body. It's a tragic disease that will hopefully be cured due to the work of the New York City based Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. As an accomplished actor and someone who is living with Parkinson's, Michael J. Fox is the perfect person to lead the fight against the disease. Continue reading about Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research...
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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 29, 2009 at 7:05 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
Posted on June 12, 2009
I don't know if you noticed, but internships are kind of hard to find now. Summer opportunities are mostly filled, and recruiting for Fall internships hasn't quite begun yet.
That means that I'll be taking the next two weeks off from posting, and then I'll start back up, hopefully, with lots of Fall opportunities to tell you about. I chose today's company strictly become of their name: The Barbarian Group. I had a great history teacher in high school who loved talking about barbarians. The only problem was that the word often came out of his mouth with a bunch of spit. I chose to sit directly to his left, which was out of the zone of expectoration, where I could sit safely and be amused by the flying saliva as it came dangerously close to landing on my classmates' textbooks. That's why I like the word barbarian. You'll like The Barbarian Group, because they're a totally sweet "digital services and creation company" based in Boston, NYC, and San Francisco. Their employees also collectively own 3,909 pairs of shoes. You can add to that. Continue reading about The Barbarian Group...
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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 26, 2009 at 6:47 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
Since you're looking for an internship, it's probably a safe assumption that you are not familiar with "expensing" things. Hopefully you will be one day (soon). Many companies (especially consulting firms) allow their employees to pay for travel, lodging, and food, and then submit receipts to the company to get reimbursed. It can be pretty sweet if you're getting $30 a night to spend on dinner, while racking up credit card points and frequent flier miles at no expense to you, but the downside is that submitting expense reports to get reimbursed is time consuming and quite annoying. Concur, a Redmond, WA based company that I learned about in Sramana Mitra's Entrepreneur Journeys, solves this problem through their "on-demand Employee Spend Management business services." Put simply, they have a suite of solutions that enables companies to automate the expensing process. Continue reading about Concur...
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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 26, 2009 at 6:43 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
A lot of people think inventing is easy. You see those guys like Billy Mays screaming on tv, and you think to yourself, "I could have thought of that." Believe it or not, even those stupid infomercial products aren't easy to come up with, and that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the world of invention. Inventing a new product is a long, arduous process that requires a ton of resources. Invention Machine is a Boston based software developer that "drives sustainable innovation by enabling global organizations to consistently generate breakthrough ideas that accelerate product development." It's hard for a non-inventor to understand how software can help the inventing process, but judging from the number of large corporations that are using Invention Machine's software, there's something there.
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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 23, 2009 at 8:22 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
More and more often, I'm hearing from people who I haven't heard from in a long time. The e-mail usually goes something like this: "I was just looking around online for summer interns, came across your site and then realized it was you!" A few weeks ago, the guy who e-mailed me was a friend from high school who I hadn't seen in probably 8 years (that makes me sound old). He's living in New York City and is part of a very early stage startup called LiveIntent that needs interns. They're focused on "helping advertisers to unlock Twitter as a channel for advertising and customer acquisition," which sounds like a pretty smart thing to be doing these days. I don't have much more on what the company is all about, because they really are that new. Continue reading about LiveIntent...
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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 23, 2009 at 8:18 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
This is a guest post by Heather R. Huhman. Heather is the media relations manager at a national health care professional association and entry-level careers columnist for Examiner.com.
Did you always want to be in the broadcast business? You might want to think about making your start at zcomm, a Bethesda, MD based broadcast public relations firm. What kind of services do they offer? "Radio news releases and video news releases, TV and radio tours, radio and TV PSAs, radio promotions, client-sponsored syndicated radio, satellite radio features, corporate videos in English and Spanish, webcasts, online video and podcasts," according to the zcomm Web site. I just love seeing small agencies with big-name client lists, and I guarantee there will be a number of zcomm's clients that you'll recognize--Hershey's, American Express, Honda, and Oreos, just to name a few. And like more and more boutique firms today, zcomm was founded by a woman--former ABC Network news correspondent Risë Birnbaum.
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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM | Leave a Comment (0)
