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)

If there's one criticism that I often hear about the non-profit world, it's that they're plagued by inefficiency. It's certainly not true across the board, but taking the profit motives out of an organization can certainly create efficiency issues. Additionally, things like organizational structure, egos, and political agendas can disrupt for-profits and non-profits alike. Root Cause is a Cambridge, MA based non-profit strategy consulting service that "envisions a world in which the public, private, and nonprofit sectors work together to invest and re-invest in the most efficient, effective, and sustainable solutions to social problems." In other words, they want to find the absolute best way to solve the world's social problems, and then work with social innovators and social impact investors to make things happen. Continue reading about Root Cause...

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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 22, 2009 at 8:12 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Since I'm still hearing from many students that they'd still like to find a summer internship, I feel compelled to share whenever I hear of opportunities that are still available. Creative Expansions, Inc., a company that hosts an online women's magazine, is still seeking an editorial intern for the summer.

The selected intern will assist with researching, editing site content, writing, developing new ideas, and various administrative duties. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in gaining experience in editing or writing. It is also a great way to add relevant experience to your resume. Continue reading ...

Article by, Penny Loretto, a career counselor at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York, has her own private career counseling practice, Career Choice, and is About.com's Guide to Internships.

Posted by Candice Arnold on June 22, 2009 at 7:29 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

There are many opportunities available for students interested in exploring interesting career options. A rather unique experience exists for those who'd like to learn more about the wine industry and the various career options that are available within this field. This semester I worked with a student who just graduated in May. She spent her last semester of college interning at a local mediation office for the city's court system and now plans on going to France in August to do another internship at a wine vineyard.

In Oregon their $1 billion wine industry is spreading into the college classroom. The programs at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg and Chemeketa Community College in Salem are combining with existing two and four year programs and are offering available internship opportunities for students interested in learning more about the field. The wine industry is big business for Oregon and its economy and more students are now able to gain relevant experience in the field prior to choosing it as a career. Continue reading ...

Article by, Penny Loretto, a career counselor at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York, has her own private career counseling practice, Career Choice, and is About.com's Guide to Internships.

Posted by Candice Arnold on June 22, 2009 at 6:50 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

An internship with the Legislative Gazette offers college students an opportunity to work on stories about state government for a daily newspaper located in Albany, NY. These internships give students a chance to gain experience in newsgathering and writing. Students get a chance to write articles for the paper as well as for their website. The Legislative Gazette offers internships both fall and spring semester.

Benefits:

Students have an opportunity to attend press conferences and ask questions of the NYS governor. Political science seminars are also available and students may be eligible to receive up to 15 college credits by completing the program. Students also get an opportunity to work with reporters from The New York Times, NBC, amongst others.
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Article by, Penny Loretto, a career counselor at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York, has her own private career counseling practice, Career Choice, and is About.com's Guide to Internships.

Posted by Candice Arnold on June 19, 2009 at 6:46 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Graduates from this year's graduating class are finding it much tougher to land a job immediately after graduation. The doom and gloom reports from the media confirm that this is one of the toughest year's for new college graduates since 1983. Although this news can be frustrating and somewhat disheartening, there are things that new graduates can do to increase their chances of getting a job and to make valuable use of their time until the job market begins to recover.

I have spoken to a number of new graduates who plan on returning to their summer jobs after college. There are also quite a few new graduates who have either gotten or are still looking for internships in their field and hope that these experiences will increase their chances of getting hired once the job market begins to open up. Continue reading ...

Article by, Penny Loretto, a career counselor at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York, has her own private career counseling practice, Career Choice, and is About.com's Guide to Internships.

Posted by Candice Arnold on June 19, 2009 at 6:43 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Most scientific literature isn't what I'd call an easy read, so I wouldn't be surprised if most of you aren't beating down the doors to get your hands on the newest research papers. Unless you are a big consumer of research literature, then you probably don't care much about the openness of scientific and medical publishing, but you should. Open sharing of information can significantly promote innovation, and who can argue against wanting more advances in science and medicine? The Public Library of Science is all about open sharing, as they are a San Francisco, CA based "nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource." They were founded in 2000, and since then they've been pushing for scientific and medical journals that "are immediately available online, with no charges for access and no restrictions on subsequent redistribution or use." Continue reading about Public Library of Science...

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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 11, 2009 at 7:56 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Summer internships are quickly disappearing, but I'm going to see how much longer I can find some for those of you stragglers who don't have an internship. If you don't act soon, you're going to know all about "country living" because your parents are going to send you off to work on a farm. Now, I don't know about working on a farm, but I do know about country living because I interned at Orvis, a company whose tagline is "distinctive country living." With that said, I've never picked up the magazine Country Living--probably because their idea of country living is a little different than mine. They focus on areas like decorating, antiques, crafts, and recipes. All good stuff, but it sure isn't fly fishing. Country Living is a Hearst magazine, and they clearly have their niche figured out. They're focused mostly on women who are into getting away to a slower style of life, and their editorial and advertising certainly reflects that. Continue reading about Country Living...

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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 11, 2009 at 7:53 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

When I was at Cornell, working on group projects was the bane of my existence--especially when I didn't get to choose the members of my group. It always seemed that I got stuck with a slacker or two, and there was always someone who just wanted to do the whole project by himself/herself (ok, sometimes that was me). Besides getting stuck with crappy partners, the logistics of organizing meetings, keeping edits to a document straight, and communicating with people who don't check their e-mail drove me crazy. I guess I wasn't the only one who didn't enjoy the group project experience at Cornell, because Dana Lampert, a fellow alum, founded Wiggio, a company and web application that "makes it easy to work in groups." They're based out of Cambridge, MA, and they've moved well beyond focusing on just college students. Wiggio can help sports teams, non-profit organizations, small businesses, Greek organizations, and pretty much anyone who works with other people. They've already broken 100,000 users, and they seem to be growing at an awesome pace, which is why now is the time to think about working for them. Continue reading about Wiggio...

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Posted by Candice Arnold on June 10, 2009 at 7:49 AM | Leave a Comment (0)

Bite Communications touts a "fearless and boundless" approach to B2B and B2C communications. They have seven offices worldwide--three of which are in the U.S., including Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. "Public relations" and "media relations" used to be synonymous, but no longer at Bite Communications. They recognize different clients have different challenges that require different approaches. Starting your career at a progressive agency is the best way to go--you'll end up a more rounded professional and thus be more marketable.

As a full-service agency, Bite Communications offers everything from strategic counsel to new media programs to influencer relations--and everything in between. Some client names you might recognize include Sun Microsystems and Vonage. Joining the Bite Communications team would mean joining 150 other brightest minds in the industry. According to their People section, they only hire "the best." With an average age of 29 years old, the agency is not adverse to a young staff. Continue reading about Bite Communications ...

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.