College and Career Connections:
This internship really helped me prepare for college through the internship project that I completed. I designed the project specifically to help me prepare for the more analytical side of my career and major. Through completing this I interviewed my mentor several times and came out of this project having done a lot of good research and having learned a lot about the industry and marketing. In terms of next steps I would say going to college is the biggest one right now. A lot of what companies are looking for right now in employees in background experience in marketing and coming at a job with a degree in marketing I think will really help me career wise, as well as being more confident in my work and experience. I am really glad I got the chance to learn about the industry first hand through this internship because without it I think that I would be approaching my major with little knowledge and I would be overwhelmed. Now that I have experience, I'm hoping that the transition to college will be easier. Through these internship opportunities I have gained a lot of experience in direct business to consumer marketing which is a field I hope to work in in the future. Though I will be working more indirectly, I hope that I can bring this experience into my career and help to advertise more personally rather than indirectly, appealing to the consumer.
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Classmate Interviews:
These are a couple of my classmate's responses to the questions we had for this assignment. These are quotes as we did this over text. - The who, what , where, why of your internship: Karley: "Working at Wasatch Property Management with their marketing team to give suggestions for improvement when they launch their new website." Maddy T: "I interned at Center for Children at Cal State San Marcos. My mentor is Ms. Letisia Ford and she is the Center Director. I helped supervise children ages 12 months to 4 years old and helped the teachers with lessons. I choose to intern there because I wanted to see what it was like working with younger kids." Travis: "Who: David Ortiz, What: Star Wars Shadow of the Empire, Where: Temecula, Why: I like making costumes" Matthew E: "Oceanside, Oceanside Public Library. Public service, creating a community space that’s unique. Updating catalogue, programs and classes, getting kids into different activities like art, science, history, etc. They want to bring the community together and make the place more than a library. Intends on helping people: Providing lunches to kids, access to computers, giving free books once they are out of the catalogue. The librarians are keeping track of everything going on and making sure that the library is good." - What is your internship project? Karley: "Creating a presentation that explains what makes a good web presence as well as collecting pieces from several mini projects to help the team such finding rogue Facebook accounts that need to be reported." Maddy T: "My internship project was making labels that corresponded to items in classroom in Japanese. The classroom had labels in English and Spanish around the classroom and I thought it would be good to add on to that. I wrote them in hiragana (Japanese characters) and Romaji (English characters to show pronunciations)." Travis: "My internship was to make three drafts of the main character’s chest plate." Matthew E: Matthew is doing multiple projects because there are a lot of different things to work on. He sorts books, reorganizes shelves, and organizes things for events like bringing out unpopular books and replacing them with new ones as well as engaging the community on politics and bringing awareness to unregistered voters. - What are you enjoying about your internship? Karley: "I really like the freedom to work on whatever with no certain designated period of time. Like how at school, we have a certain two hours for math but here I could work on it whenever works best for me." Maddy T: "I’m enjoying working with the kids. They are really cute and sweet and they say a lot of funny things." Travis: "I enjoyed that I was able to make costumes out of new materials." Matthew E: "They put in a lot of effort in so that the community can thrive. They base their programs off of books and they try to extend that to other businesses to bring the community together. Often partnering with book’s businesses to promote." - What are you finding frustrating about your internship? Karley: "Can be really quiet but otherwise I really like it." Maddy T: "There are frustrating things such as dealing with kids crying, and kids sneezing and drooling on you." Travis: "What I found frustrating was the steep learning curve with craft foam." Matthew E: Nothing to note. - What is something new you have learned at your intersnship? Karley: "I find business and the aspects that I have exposed to a lot more interesting than I thought I would." Maddy T: "I learned about how to deal with conflict involving children. You have to think creatively and learn how to distract them with other things to keep them from fighting." Travis: "Something new I learned was how ... to use craft foam." Matthew E: "... didn’t realize how much libraries do, he didn’t know that the library has a separate library called the 'Friend’s Libraries' for books that aren’t in the catalogue anymore and sell the books for cheap. All the money goes back to the library." - If you were recommending your internship to an HTHNC Junior, what would you share about this internship? Karley: "It’s very relaxed and everyone in the office is super nice and chill. It’s not a crazy internship where you are running around constantly. It’s a good mix of hanging out with cool people, learning, and getting things done." Maddy T: "If I were recommending this, I’d say its a really fulfilling experience and you can help make a kids day better by playing with them and teaching them how to do everyday tasks." Travis: He says it's a good idea of what jobs in the real world are like. Matthew E: "You are treated with a lot of respect in this internship. Interns are treated exactly like staff and they get badges like staff. Even volunteers don’t get badges. This internship always gives out free books ... They will allow interns to work on any project you can think of. They are super flexible with your ideas. They have free food by the back table, if anyone has free food, they put it by the back table for anyone to eat. This internship will never bore you and time goes by fast. The satisfaction of the work and the kids, parents being happy. Being a part of a new experience you have never been before. The satisfaction factor is a big selling point of this internship." My Internship Project:
Final Product The title of my final project was, "Business Tactics and Marketing Strategies in The Comic Industry." I chose to do my project on this because I wanted to do something more research-based, a topic that I think I need to work on for my intended major in college. This project ended up being really helpful in terms of the information that I learned along the way. Most of it is covered in my final product, but I ended up researching and learning a lot about helpful marketing and business tactics that I will be able to use in my future career. Considering I want to go into marketing specifically in the comic industry, I figured that this was the perfect internship to learn these things. The reason why I wanted to do this research in a small business to consumer setting was because I wanted to see customer service and marketing directly to customers firsthand instead of assuming to know the client base. Because I will end up going into marketing at a more corporate level, I wanted to experience marketing on a personal level in order to understand the clientele and to bring that experience with me into my future career. Unfortunately at a more corporate level marketing is less personal and more based on data due to surveys on what the people want. I hope to change that based off what I have learned through Knowhere and through my mentor. |
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