The Intern Blog

"You can't rush art" - Toy Story 2

Pixar, the animation studios that brought you hits like Toy Story, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Cars and Finding Nemo, are recruiting for their summer 2012 Technical Undergraduate Program.

Students selected for this paid 10-week long program will be immersed into the world of animation, with formal training by one of Pixar’s talented Technical Directors. The course will focus on the technical aspects of filmmaking like modeling, shading, rigging lighting – and visual effects. Students can look forward to working on small group projects, while learning, first-hand, about Pixar's filmmaking process. 

This internship is perfect for undergraduate students interested in 3D graphics, art, sculpture, sewing, design and, of course, film! 

Interested applicants should apply here.

“Summer, summer, summer time… Time to sit back and unwind”
-DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince

For most college students, summer break is the most anticipated time of the year! Goodbye test and quizzes. Hello sunshine and music festivals. It’s also the time of year that most students begin their summer internships. This is why we’re dedicating our weekly Spotlights to summer internships. In addition to all of the "unwinding", we want to make sure that you're also interning! After all, the majority of full-time job offers for college students come from summer internships. 

We’re kicking off the season with Seattle-based brand firm, Urban Design Influence. They are looking for students with superb design and typography skills. This paid summer internship will offer students the opportunity to take on projects as their own - and the chance to be mentored by Urban Design Influence's award-winning staff. 

Worried about leaving your dog at home? Don’t worry! Bring him/her along. That’s just one of the perks of a summer internship there.

Interested applicants should apply with a cover letter, resume, portfolio link and reasons why a summer internship at Urban Design Influence is right for them.

Apply.

One of our Twitter followers (shout out to @Rafriqi) tweeted us to find out if we had a newsletter to keep her posted on new internship positions.

 After seeing her tweet, we realized that this was the perfect time to debut InternMatch’s newest feature - which we have been testing and keeping secret until now!

Allow me to introduce: Save this Search (STS).

We built STS for busy college students like @Rafriqi - who wanted to receive easy email alerts about specific types of internship positions. Unlike other companies with similar features, STS allows you to customize your internship search. Choose how often - every day, every week or every month - and what types of internship positions you want to receive alerts about. Long gone are the days of receiving email spam about accounting internships in boise, when you’re a marketing major in tampa. With STS, you choose! Search for and save as many different internship positions as you like!

We have noticed exciting trends within the engineering industry from speaking with employers and have created an infographic to illustrate some of these trends. The demand for engineering interns within the tech industry is at an all time high, with 93% of tech startups hiring interns and top companies continuously increasing the size of their engineering internship programs. A recent WSJ article featured these stats from InternMatch and looks deeper at startup and engineering hiring trends.

There’s nothing worst than leaving a long day of classes, ditching your friends and tag football, so that you can put on a suit and schmooze with a bunch of strangers. Sound like your dad’s company dinner? Not quite, but close, it’s your on-campus career fair! Whether you view them as a friend or foe, career fairs are a vital resource for a successful internship search and you stand to gain many benefits - like networking with employers and learning about awesome internship programs - from attending.

But let’s face it, this isn’t the Real World (well, kinda) and standing in a room full of strangers can be both overwhelming and intimidating. What do I say? What do I bring? What do I wear? Who do I speak to first? Don’t worry, InternMatch has you covered! We’ve pooled all of our resources - even unleashing a few secrets from employers - and created a list of 5 tips to help you score big at your on-campus career fair!

We’re always keeping our eyes out for useful resources to help make your internship process as rewarding as possible. Today we stumbled upon this awesome one-sheet from Lifehacker – a really cool site that helps you manage and organize just about every aspect of your life!

One-sheets are traditionally used in the entertainment industry to summarize the most important details about a particular project, idea or event – and they’re literally one sheet. In this case you’re going to use this one-sheet, created by Jenny Blake (Life After College ), to organize your most important details into talking points before heading into a job interview. With so many awesome things to share, how do you decide which are the most important? Check it out!

"A black hole is a region of space-time from which it is impossible to escape."

-Stephen Hawkins

Black holes in space consist of collapsed stars where neither sound nor light can escape. In the job world, the term black hole is used, for when applicants send countless resumes to employers and hear nothing in response.

Few things are more frustrating than spending hours crafting and customizing an internship application, only to submit it, and hear nothing back. This problem exists for a number of reasons but the fact is that fewer than 5% of employers follow-up with every applicant they receive and even fewer communicate the real reasons about why they made the choice they did...

This is the beginning of our favorite semester – summer internship recruitment season – and we want to make sure that you are ready to land your dream internship, with your dream company!

Below are just a few quick readiness-tips that will prepare you to launch your internship search.

Consult Your Career Counselor 

If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to schedule an appointment with your school’s career counseling center/internship coordinator. This is an important step to ensure that you have a rewarding and effective internship search. Your coordinator/counselor will know all of the details about on-campus recruitment and career fairs.

In addition, many counseling centers offer students resume and cover letter writing workshops – as well as the opportunity to participate in mock interviews. Don’t pass up these opportunities! The professionals in your career center are a great resource to help you evaluate your strengths, weaknesses – and offer advice as you develop your internship search strategy.

Make the most of your appointment by arriving on time, with a copy of your resume.

Mary J. Blige, Jamie Foxx, Mariah Carey and Nia Long are familiar household names. You’re a strong writer, who's fluent in social media -- with the experience to prove it. Life is like a box of deadlines. People thought Erykah Badu and Cee Lo were creative until they met you. Multi-tasking is your middle name. You’re a New York-based college student, available 2-3 days per week, who can regularly commute to Manhattan. Sound like you?

Then check out this awesome internship with EBONY.com.

On the 12th Day of Internships
InternMatch sent to me: 12 + internships with four awesome NBA teams

Last month, we brought you a list of internships to celebrate the end of the NBA lockout. Today, we’re wrapping up our 12 Days of Internships and kicking off the start of the new NBA season by highlighting a few of their awesome internships.

Check out the list of internships below, because there’s something on there for every NBA fan: From the budding Marketing Manager to the future Human Resources Director.

For those of you who missed a day or two of the count down, winter break is the perfect time to catch up on our entire 12 Days of Internships! The countdown is packed with lots of goodies, such as: How-to resource guides for those beginning their internship search to helpful exit interview advice for those currently finishing up an internship. Of course, it’s also full of cool internship positions with companies like Chanel and Walt Disney – and internships in cool cities like New York,  Chicago and Los Angeles. We promise - you’re bound to find something you like!

NBA Internships...

Detroit Pistons – Community Relations, Broadcasting/Multimedia, Human Resources, Marketing

Apply

Houston Rockets – Human Resources, Corporate Development, Ticket Sales, Video Production, Marketing & Promotion, Strategy Research

Apply

Miami Heat – Community Affairs, Ticket Operations, Media Production, Marketing & Game Operation, Internet Services

Apply

Washington Wizards – TV Production

Apply

This internship list is not exhaustive and we encourage you to check out the NBA’s website for additional information.