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Social Media Intern
Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. HootSuite. WordPress. Blogging.
Life as a social media intern will be chalk full of social media mania expanding and building our online brand presence. If you’re looking for an internship where you can grab the virtual bull by the horns and learn in a hands-on role, this is a great fit for you. If you’re hoping you can sit side by side, ask questions and then go at a project on your own, you’ll fit right in with us.
Location: Chicago Loop Office | Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30a.m. – 5:00p.m. | Start Date: October, 2011
Internship Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree in Social Media, Marketing or Communications preferred. Minimum 1 to 3 years experience in social media working with Twitter, Facebook, blogging and LinkedIn. Ideal candidate will have a background working with WordPress as a blogging tool and website platform and an understanding of basic HTML. Strong preference for candidates with 3+ years experience working in a fast-paced environment, start-up venture or with an entrepreneur in a service-driven business. Must have superior communication, organization and team work skills including ability to adapt to shifting demands and priorities.
Description: This internship is an amazing opportunity to develop hands-on experience with the hottest social media applications of today (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, HootSuite) alongside on of the brightest and most respected business and career coaches in the country. What you’ll learn in this internship would take years to learn at a Fortune 500 company. Your role here will be “roll up your sleeves and jump right in” for a social media savvy blogger who is a featured columnist on a New York Times-Rated AdAge Top 50 blog with 120,000 twitter fans followed in Japan, Sweden and Spain. As a social media strategist called on by Sears and personal branding expert seen on ABC and WGN TV, the CEO you will learn from is fast-moving growing a brand you will be a part of every day.
If you can envision Bethenny Frenkel, Suze Orman, Audrey Hepburn and Chelsea Handler mixed into one thriving business woman, you’d have the energetic and intelligent executive leading this business. This detail-oriented, energetic C.E.O. is the head of a thriving brand while also in the midst of authoring her second book, coaching clients and responding to offers for the next “big move” she will make with her business. To find out what it’s like interning alongside her, within her company, read one of the current intern’s blogs titled “Intern Reality”.
Key Skills Required:
1. Superior Attention to Detail
2. Excellent Organization — online, email, paperwork, etc
3. Twitter – hashtag, retweet and you tweet – you need to know it all
4. Facebook – fan pages, friend pages, deals and more
5. Hootsuite – essential for managing it all in one place
6. Blogging – with a CEO on Inc., Forbes and Fox Business she’ll teach you a lot but you have to know some of it to start here
7. LinkedIn – corporate pages, individual profiles and how to leverage it for business
8. Sense of Humor – we work long hours so this is definitely a “key skill”
