By Natalie Cullings | June 24, 2013
While the summer temperature is only starting to heat up, my internship is in full-swing as I began my fourth week as a strategy/research intern at Mechanica USA. It’s been a great experience so far and I’m looking forward to my continual exposure to the industry as the summer progresses. So you might be wondering,…
By Ross Simons | August 23, 2012
Hi Everyone, This may be one of my last posts, but I may have a few more posts left in the tank–who knows? Because of this being one of my last posts as a guest blogger for CCD, I thought it was appropriate to end with a pretty long post that reflects on what I…
By Ross Simons | August 22, 2012
I’ve been writing a number of blog posts this summer as a guest blogger for Babson’s Center for Career Development. I received a grant to assist me during the summer, and one of the conditions was that I blog about my experience at least eight times. I was more than happy to do that because…
By Ross Simons | June 14, 2012
In my job-search I viewed a lot of websites. I mean a lot–easily 150+. On a lot of these agency websites, you get their “Why you should work for us” spiel. You hear some cool stuff. Agencies really are a fun atmosphere, particularly for young professionals. But today, I’m not here to talk about the…
By Ross Simons | June 11, 2012
The first week of my time at EP has drawn to a close, and it’s been a real whirlwind. But it’s been great. I realized a couple of things on day one. First I learned that EP was going to be an awesome place: After our agency tour and meet and greet with the intern committee…
By Ross Simons | May 29, 2012
In the previous post, I gave you an introduction to where I will be working (Erwin Penland) and why I am excited about it. As promised in Part 1, this post will be all about how I got this internship. Full disclosure, some of this will be from a popular post on my own personal…
By Ross Simons | May 29, 2012
Did I say infiltrate? Disregard that now that I’ve caught your attention with the headline. Still, the idea is the same–how to find yourself in an ad agency. Here I am a week before the start of my internship at an awesome advertising agency named Erwin Penland and I have to say that I am extremely excited.…