I had 4 interviews today. I didn’t take pictures from the morning interviews because those were done by phone from Vancouver to Toronto. Those were for paid internships in IT.
The afternoon interview was in Gastown, unpaid internship in marketing. That company has a huge, amazing office, very cool, very good view. Here’s from their conference room – one problem with the picture (done on an iPhone) was the light kind of washed out a lot, so you can see the view but not the room.
Here’s the happy intern after the interview – she did really well, and they hired her on the spot.
No interviews for me tomorrow – Maria has a couple, but I think those are more phone ones which don’t look great on camera.
A busy day of interviews – 6 in total, our highest number in a single day so far. I had the iPhone with me so here are a few pictures from the interviews:
Student A: from Korea – interviewing for new media marketing. Unpaid internship program.
Students D & E: from Korea – interviewing for a telecom internship. Paid internship program.
4 more interviews tomorrow. 2 more on Friday. Busy busy week.
The exclamation mark is because we’re expanding ahead of schedule – and I’m excited about that.
VancouverInternships.ca is soon to become WorkandTravel.ca. We’re changing the name because we’re becoming a national company. We’ve secured several good contracts with schools on the other side of the country, and together with a recent investment, it means we will be opening east of the Rockies in July.
Everything we’ve done with this company is months ahead of schedule. I’m endlessly grateful for the trust schools have put in us, and the good faith students have shown so far. We’ve done more than 2 dozen internship placements in our short existence, and nearly as many teacher placements.
On the books right now we’ve got more than 60 files. This week alone, we have the following interviews:
- Casual Work Experience (1 interview – retail)
- Paid Internship (5 network administration, 2 telecom)
- Unpaid Internship (3 hotels, 1 new media, 1 marketing)
We’re really at the point of some explosive growth. We’re opening two new offices, we’re hiring staff, we’re placing interns, we’re adding on new clients nearly every week. And in this economy . . .
I’ll post some more when we get the new logo . . .
