Internship Interview Announcement!

Dear College Administrators, Students and Interested Parties:

We are pleased to announce the commencement of the interview process for the Summer Session II internship program, which will begin immediately. This internship will extend from July 2013 to December 2013 and offer matriculating students and recent graduates of 12 months or less the opportunity to work in the fast-paced, very exciting publishing world while learning the basic operations of publishing a national magazine.

This is a journalism internship. Experience working for school newspapers or other publications is a plus. Journalism, English and Graphic Design majors are particularly desirable, but other majors are also considered. Candidates must be proficient in grammar and have very strong writing skills, as they will be required to complete short story assignments.

Candidates interested in this assignment also must be social media savvy and able to complete various tasks associated with the maintenance of our Facebook page, Twitter account and website. Graphic skills are a plus and will be useful in assisting the art department with the management of visual content.

Students will be required to be in the office on Mondays, complying with any arranged schedules. Editors’ work schedules are primarily remote, so the ability to work offsite with minimal supervision is crucial. Interested students should submit to my attention a cover letter, résumé and contact information to the email address below. No student will be accepted into the program without a recommendation from a counselor, or current or former professor. This letter is due within two weeks of the student’s acceptance into the program. Students are encouraged to identify an endorser now.

As our internship program does offer credit hours for matriculating students, interns are obligated to fulfill a minimum of 12 hours per week to receive credit. If hours are not completed, credit will NOT be offered.

Students should confirm with their counselor whether or not such credit is acceptable by their college or university.

Phone interviews will begin on the week of Monday July 8th. Students should email me at Ldean@upscalemag.com to reserve a slot. The subject line should read Internship Interview. Out-of-state candidates are considered only for summer sessions.

Interns chosen for the program are required to provide official paperwork from their prospective universities, which will act as documentation of their enrollment and completion of our program. Such documentation is usually in the form of an evaluation, typically completed at the end of the semester/quarter by the internship director or an immediate supervisor.

We appreciate your sharing this invitation with all interested parties. If you have any questions, I may be reached email listed below.

 

Thank you for your interest in UPSCALE magazine.

Sincerely,

LaConia Jenkins Dean | Associate Editor

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600 Bronner Brothers Way | Atlanta, Georgia 30310 | Ldean@upscalemag.com |upscalemagazine.com

 

upscale magazine is a national lifestyle and entertainment magazine that caters to the interests of black women between the ages of 25 and 45. With a circulation of over 200,000, we enlighten our readers on topics ranging from entertainment, fashion, beauty, living, health, news and views.

How To Get An Internship??!!

Lauren Berger, 27, has become an authority on landing internships. She runs a website,Internqueen.com, and just published a book on the subject: All Work, No Pay: Finding an Internship, Building a Resume, Making Connections and Gaining Job Experience. But she started out as a clueless college freshman at Florida State in Tallahassee, whose only work experience was waitressing at the Red Lobster, and a minimum wage job at The Limited II. Berger’s own tale of landing her first internships with zero connections, offers excellent pointers for students who want to get started on the internship track. It worked for Berger. She did 15 internships while in college.

1. Cold calling can work. Berger’s saga started in 2002 when her pushy mother, who had just seen a “Today” show segment about the importance of internships for college students, called and said she had to get one. It was the spring of Berger’s freshman year. Berger headed to Florida State’s career office, but was told that she needed to be a junior or senior if she wanted help. “They said, ‘come back and see us in three years,’” she recalls.

Disappointed, Berger decided to do her own research. She knew she was interested in public relations, marketing and entertainment, so she punched “PR internships in Tallahassee, Fla.” into Google. The Zimmerman Agency, a national PR firm with an office in Tallahassee, came up first in her search, but there was no internship contact listed on Zimmerman’s site. Berger called the company and asked to speak to the internship coordinator. She got through, and the woman told her to send in a résumé and cover letter.

2. Take immediate action when you get a lead. Thinking it was a long shot, Berger did some more Googling, for help putting together her materials. She sent them in that evening. The next morning, her phone rang at 8am. “I thought I did something wrong,” she recalls. The coordinator was so impressed by Berger’s promptness, she offered her an interview. “She said, ‘you don’t know how long students take to send in their materials,’” recalls Berger.

3. Prepare for the interview. Before her meeting, Berger poured over the company’s website, including the firm’s mission statement and executive biographies. “Look for things you have in common with the people who run the company,” she advises. “If you run into the head of the company on the elevator the first day, greet him.” Berger recommends incorporating buzzwords from the mission statement into your interview.

4. Ask what the internship would entail.Don’t use the interview as an information-gathering session about the interviewer. Instead, Berger suggests applicants ask, “can you describe a day as an intern at your company.”

5. Say you’re ready to start immediately. Especially for unpaid internships, employers often tell applicants they can take time to think about whether they want the job. Berger says you should break in and say, “I know I want this.” Berger’s eagerness and persistence came through and she got the Zimmerman internship.

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