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Some of the best careers right now for undergraduates fall under Technology!

This article published today highlights the top 10 careers right now for college graduates.  What I want to highlight is that more than half of the careers on the list involve computers & technology.  If you are interested in technology, be sure to check out some of the careers mentioned.   If you discover that you are interested in…

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CrunchU: The Online Academy for Techies

This post was written by Natalie Cullings, Class of 2014. If the words coding, gamification, startup, design, or hacking mean something to you, then CrunchU, TechCrunch’s online learning academy, will definitely be of use to you. Don’t know much about the tech industry? Don’t worry–this online “university” is a great place to start. Modules are…

Shopify: More than Just a Platform

My supervisor had recently told me that we were updating our website in the coming months, so he wanted me to do some research in regards to e-commerce.  We use Shopify as our e-commerce platform, and interestingly enough Shopify has its own blog on how to better your e-commerce.  This is an incredible tool for…

Thank You Excel

I was focusing mainly on improving our brand image for this portion of my internship.  We knew people were buying the clothes (Saks Fifth Avenue had tripled their purchase order this time around), so obviously the customers loved our stuff, but they weren’t contributing to our good press as much as we wanted them to be. …

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Collecting the Battery Replacement Second Payment

As I previously mentioned, Alex and I did a battery replacement in the community of Mano de Leon. The replacement was for our host-family’s system. While the replacement went very smoothly, we were very concerned that Fidelia would try and not pay the second half of the payment. She was constantly “joking” that there might…

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Don’t Intern Only to Learn About an Industry, but Also Where It’s Heading

It’s hard to believe I’m more than half way done with my summer internship at the branding/advertising firm Mechanica. I’ve learned a lot about the industry and the responsibilities of the different departments/positions within a firm. However, one of the highlights of my internship was the day I was fortunate enough to attend BostInno’s State…

Pop Up Shop

While working as an intern at an online shopping company, I’ve been lucky to be exposed to a wide array of roles and projects that accumulate to build a strong brand such as BeachMint. Earlier this week, I worked at their warehouse/sample sale store. I’ve been to sample sales and pop up shops from different…

Stepping Up with Social Media

I spent the last couple of days researching a new tool in the social media hub that allows users to post videos on their profile. The application to pioneer this tool is called Vine and it was recently acquired by Twitter when it launched earlier in January. This was my first time hearing about Vine…