For business, Vancouver is a very small place. This company is in the former offices of our biggest and best competitor. I didn’t even realize they had moved.
Anyhow, they are a growing IT company, they just acquired another internship host company of ours. They produce security software for schools as well as a few other products. They are on the look out for an unpaid graphic design intern. This is a good intro internship for a graphic designer. While they would love someone with top-level skills, they are happy to accept someone who is familiar with Microsoft Publisher, Adobe InDesign and a blogging platform like WordPress or Blogger.
This internship can begin at any time – the minimum duration is 4 weeks, but it can go up to 12 weeks. The office [pictured above] is located in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbour, near Waterfront Skytrain/Seabus/West Coast Express Station. The intern will work producing traditional marketing collateral for sales kits, they will also work on a viral marketing campaign, using web 2.0 tools like WordPress, Twitter, and Facebook.
As I said, it’s a good beginner’s internship. At the end of this internship, you’ll have learned more about modern marketing techniques, you’ll have built connections in Vancouver’s IT community, and you will get a great reference for future employment.
To be placed in this internship as a student, you need to be involved in a school program that requires an internship placement. There is a fee for placement into one of these internships. This fee includes resume preparation, interview practice, visa assistance, and on-going monitoring. If you are interested in applying – please click here and complete the form.
If you are school looking to offer this work placement to your students, please click here.
Victor is all business. Head to toe – he eat, sleeps and breathes business. Wherever he goes he ends up with a business contact. He spent a 15-minute Skytrain ride, asking me for contacts to sell granite and marble (he got a good pice from a wholesaler in Florida). I didn’t think I knew any, but after the questioning, it turns out I knew an interior design company in Richmond, a contractor on Marine Drive, and a construction company downtown who are all good leads.
Because Victor was so good at making contacts, I thought he’d have no problem finding an internship. I gave him a few leads about a month ago. But he tried on his own and nothing came of it. Surprising.
So we went out to 3 and a half interviews.
The first was at a corporate holding company. This company runs a few different brands including a property management company, a real estate company, an IT company, and an importer. He bombed that interview – and I mean, like atomic bombed that interview.
The next interview was at another IT company, this one in Gastown. In his previous interview, he was least bad when he was talking about marketing IT. Flop sweat. He got flop sweat. We prepared for an hour and a half before hand, did mock interviews and went over everything. The interview was exactly like we had thought it would be, but still he broke into flop sweat. Once the dam breaks even a little, there’s a flood.
After that one, I started to figure out what was wrong – he got nervous jumpring right in. So for the next interview we tried a different tactic, giving Victor a running start. This was at a manufacturing company in Burnaby.
The interview was with the assistant to the CEO and the marketing manager. I went in to talk with them first – I got them talking about marketing methods. Once we got going on that, we brought Victor in. He has a master’s in marketing, so he joined the conversation right away – talking about trade fairs. It was night and day – the way he performed in this interview, compared to the disasters at the others.
So, long story short, he aced the interview and he’ll start on Monday.
His internship is for now unpaid, though the company asked about the possibility of hiring him at the end of his placement. He’ll be part of the marketing team, he’ll sit in on weekly marketing meetings and have the chance to pitch his own ideas. If his ideas get taken up, he’ll lead them and see them through to fruition. In the meantime, he’ll be assigned to other marketing projects and help the company prepare for trade fairs.
Intern at a software, web applications, or computer consulting company. Put your skills and education to use at a cutting edge Canadian web applications, software, or IT consulting firm. These are three different internships, depending on your skills or education. Knowledge of IT is an absolute requirement for any of these three internships. In a web applications internship, you will use your .Net programming experience to build applications that interface with Google, with Facebook, with iPhones, or that run on stand-alone websites. In software design, you’ll put your C++ skills to use working on different types of software for mobile devices. In systems administration, you will help set up and manager servers, and work on day to day tech support requests. In all cases you will be closely supervised by a team of young IT professionals. The minimum time for this internship is 4 weeks, but you can work as long as 6 months.
To be placed in this internship as a student, you need to be involved in a school program that requires an internship placement. There is a fee for placement into one of these internships. This fee includes resume preparation, interview practice, visa assistance, and on-going monitoring. If you are interested in applying – please click here and complete the form.
If you are school looking to offer this work placement to your students, please click here.
