Friday, February 25, 2011

Meet Great Employers at the Tufts Internship Fair

Internship season is sneaking up on us again—as it always seems to do. Friends left and right are perusing jam-packed websites, weighing their options, figuring out which opportunities validate time-consuming apps. But while often limited to our speedy laptops, the most expedient way to affirm you mesh with that spicy listing is to meet it face-to-face. In person. Looking your business-y finest.

Well, it’s happening, and we don’t even have to tread off campus. Wednesday, March 2nd, Career Services’ Internship Fair will recruit to Tufts a diverse set of internship opportunities and their representative employers, hailing from all over the Boston area. Rather than through slow-paced emails, we get to gauge the job and prospective employers face-to-face. It’s a perfect time to reveal our tangle of talents, practice some career chatter, and hand-off our finest, plumped up resumes.

But the Fair also caters to our curiosities. Through face-value interaction, we can immediately comprehend what the job offers us as undergrads, still trying to locate our “it” post-college path. We can decide off-the-bat if this is something that arouses us and speaks to our hazy long-term goals. Landing an internship position often times comes down to networking—that is, attaching impersonal emails to a recognizable name and face. It scrapes off some of those exhausting steps in-between. And let’s face it: we could all use some of that.

I asked a few of the Internship Fair employer reps to share their thoughts on a series of questions, designed to shed light on the great organizations who'll be there on Wednesday.

Here's what Cynthia Woo at Boston Center for the Arts had to say:

1. What does an ideal student candidate look like?

An ideal candidate is someone interested in learning more about careers in the arts. They may be art-makers themselves or art lovers and supporters. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic and willing to learn!

2. What kinds of tasks encompass an internship at your organization? What would an intern's day look like?

Interns have the opportunity to assist the administrative office, work in the Mills Gallery, assist with outreach and work in the Development and Marketing Department. On any given day interns may be giving tours of the gallery, greeting BCA visitors, contacting colleges and local community organizations, researching future exhibiting artists or just simply enjoying the Mills Gallery.


3. What would student gain from an internship at your organization?


Students will learn what it is like to work in a non-profit art space. They will get to work closely with various BCA staff members and have a chance to network in the arts community.


Next, here's Eliza Levy from Rounder Records:


1. What does an ideal student candidate look like?


An ideal student candidate is hard-working, flexible, organized, takes initiative, and loves music! Knowledge of artists/bands/music in general is a plus but not necessarily required.

2. What kinds of tasks encompass an internship at your organization? What would an intern's day look like?

There are multiple different departments hiring. The product management department intern, for example, will be responsible for servicing venues with posters/CD's and other promotional materials to help build awareness of artists' upcoming performances, putting together a weekly tour update for the entire company, keeping the Rounder website updated with touring information, and fulfilling special requests for materials when they come in, etc. There will also be opportunities to go to shows and to help out at video shoots.


3. What would a student gain from an internship at your company?

There is always more to do and more to learn if the intern has the time and the desire. Any aspect of the industry they are interested in, they only need ask and we can veer the internship in that direction as long as basic duties are completed first.


Check out the list of employers attending the Fair this Wednesday - we'll look forward to seeing you there!

Tufts Internship Fair
Wednesday, March 2, 12:30-4pm

51 Winthrop Street

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