Just a week ago I embarked on a 507 mile journey from Novi, MI to York, PA. You might ask yourself why choose York as a destination? If you're traveling that far you might as well go somewhere nice like a beach, a national monument, or a state park. After all it is Summer vacation! Well, summer vacation isn't really on the schedule for me this year as I was hired as an intern for a local Advertising Agency in York, PA called Campbell Harrington & Brear.
As my friends are taking exotic vacations and soaking up the sun, I'm soaking in as much information from the agency as my brain and notebook can hold from 9am- 5pm while working a second job as a stable hand for FCS Equestrian Center in the evening and on weekends. And you thought studying for finals was hard...haha just kidding! Although it seems like a lot to have piled on my plate for the Summer, I am extremely blessed to have such oppertunites. Unfortunatly, a lot of people still don't recognize the fact that a college degree isn't enough anymore to land you the job of your dreams. Real world experience is the best thing to have on a resume you send out to a future employee and I am so greatful to CH&B for the oppertunity!
I've been working as an intern for a week and all of the staff at CH&B have already made me feel like part of the team. It's great working with a smaller agency because you really get to know the people you are working with. Not a day passes by where someone doesn't come to my desk and chat with me for a few minutes. Even the president himself makes sure to stop by every once in a while!Talk about good networking!!! I've been included in every meeting and discussion that takes place here as well as already having a list of jobs that I take care of. Last Friday I presented what I've been working on in one of the production meetings. It was awesome that they let me chime in and update them with the progress I've made. Another unique thing that I've picked up about CH&B is the way the praise each other when something good happens and kindly but constructively fix or critique each other when something isn't perfect of needs to be changed. It's refreshing to see that in a work place as unfortunately that isn't how it works in a lot of other places.
Right now I am working hand in hand with Stephen Marcum CH&B's Director of Media Strategy. It's easy to tell he has a passion for what he does! He can't keep from smiling every time he is teaching me something new! It's awesome to see someone getting excited about teaching somebody else what they do! Only a week has gone by and he has already taught me so much about SEO (search engine Optimization), creating a successful website, and social book marking which are all good things to know for advertising in the future! He's got an amazing sense of strategy and detail , despite the fact he called me Lindsay the first few days I worked here, and is leading CH&B successfully into the future of social media advertising. Oh, and he's got my name right now too! :)
As of now my duties include updating CH&B's large portfolio of previous and current work and placing it on Flickr and Picasa. This puts it online where people can access it. What makes this extremely effective is that I've been posting the links to CH&B's twitter pages with a little description of what each piece of work is. Besides that I am working on building a following on Twitter for the company and I've brought us 5 new followers since last Wednesday! I've also dipped my feet into social book marking with the help of Stephen and successfully submitted CH&B's blog post about our political advertising for Craig Trebilcock when he won a seat for Judge to several social book marking websites.
Well that's about it for today!
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