Internship Opportunity: Partnership for a New American Economy

The Partnership for a New American Economy is seeking a part-time 2015 Fall Semester New York City-based, paid Intern to assist in strategy, research, organizing, event planning, writing, project management, social media, and design.

The Partnership for a New American Economy brings together more than 500 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors and business leaders united in making the case for streamlining, modernizing, and rationalizing our immigration system. They advocate for reform through a variety of digital and on-the-ground initiatives and through original research and policy reports. They engage our political leaders in Washington DC and across the country, and we unite the diverse sectors that support reform. The Partnership also supports state and local efforts to attract, retain and integrate immigrants as a strategy for maximizing economic growth and competitiveness.

Responsibilities include:
- Writing for various projects including op-eds, speeches, talking points, blog posts and press content.

- Helping to manage social media accounts including generating content and driving strategy via analysis.
- Helping to maintain a constant flow of website content and responding to outside engagement.
- Helping with research for policy reports.
- Engaging our membership and recruiting new members.
- Assisting in all communications efforts.
- Helping to plan events around the country.

Requirements:
- Excellent social media skills.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Good interpersonal and teamwork abilities.
- Able to multi-task well and eager to work on a variety of projects.
- Experience analyzing data is a plus.
- Start Date: Late August/Early September
- End Date: Early December
- Able to work from the New York City office 20-25 hours per week.

** For more information, visit CareerLink, Job ID# 49502

** To apply, please send resume and cover letter to jobs@renewoureconomy.org with the subject line "Fall 2015 Internship Application"

FCA Student Spotlight: Sarah Antony -- Northwestern Mutual Internship Experience

Northwestern Mutual Financial Representative Internship

By Sarah Antony, '16

Fordham Career Ambassador

I first looked into an internship with Northwestern Mutual because I liked their company philosophy. It is focused on financial planning for the long term. True to form, the Financial Representative internship is also geared towards preparing interns for a career in the long term.

About the Internship Itself

       Northwestern Mutual treats its interns like full-time Financial Reps; we are encouraged to view ourselves as the CEO of our own financial services practices. The internship is difficult, but gives college students a head start on a long career. Northwestern Mutual is built on meaningful, trusting relationships with clients. Part of the expectation for new Financial Representatives is building up a client base for our own personal practices, with relationships that hopefully last a lifetime.

       That being said, the company knows it’s tough and has an incredible support system in place. Northwestern Mutual actually provides training and sponsors financial services licensing for each state. More experienced financial planners accompany new reps on client meetings. We attend weekly meetings where interns pick up soft skills and get a chance to ask for help with specific problems. Successful financial advisors, many of whom started out in the internship program, are more than willing to share their experiences, advice, and inspiration.

How to succeed

       This internship might be a good fit for outgoing people, but even if you don’t feel that networking comes to you naturally, anyone can learn how to do it. As a Financial Rep, I get a chance to put all the soft skills that I picked up as a Fordham Career Ambassador to work. Little things like sending prompt follow-up emails and presenting yourself professionally go a long way.

       If you are considering this internship, I recommend practicing meeting people in a casual setting to talk about your professional goals or schoolwork. It can be as simple as contacting a favorite professor or one of your friends who graduated and started working recently, and asking them to meet you for coffee.  This allows you to get used to the idea of arranging meetings, which I used to find awkward. In addition, it keeps your connections from going stale, and at the very least gives you the chance to enjoy a chat with someone you don’t get to see normally. You will have a much easier time as a Financial Rep if you have expanded the circle of people you feel comfortable reaching out to beforehand.

       Get into the mindset early on that you should be reaching out to the people you meet on campus and through Career Services events. Career Services taught me how to build a network, and the Financial Representative internship taught me what do with it.

-- For more information on this position and to apply, visit CareerLink, Job ID# 51006

Internship Opportunity: Bookmarks4Fun

Bookmarks4Fun is looking for a Marketing and Design intern to join their fun company for the Fall. The person in the role will be exposed to a start-up environment where they will have the opportunity to take on a lot of responsibility and communicate with brand named stores and partners, entertainers to help endorse their product, and possibly sports teams and movie studios to license their brands, work with Social Media, and Graphics and Web Design and SEO. 

Choice of Responsibilities:

Research/Marketing:

- Perform research to find the name and contact information for buyers of stores, both domestically and internationally.

- Research names and contact information for companies such as Disney, MLB, NBA, etc. to find the licensing person.

- Find contact names for popular YouTubers who might endorse our product. Send letters and respond to the above contacts to generate initial conversations (this will be offered to those who write and communicate exceptionally well.)

Social Media:

- Manage our Wikipedia site

- Manage our YouTube site – shoot video clips, develop YouTube content plans etc.

- Manage our Groupon site

- Manage our Facebook and Twitter accounts

Design:

- Create Graphic designs for our marketing materials and website

- Web Design

Experience:

- S/he should have excellent online research skills

- S/he should be very self-confident and well-spoken if they need to gather information by phone.

- S/he should write extremely well in business like fashion to represent the company well.

- S/he should be self-motivated and be able to work on their own once given guidelines.

- S/he can work flexible hours and will be working from a satellite office (i.e., their home or place of their choice).

- S/he is available to work a minimum of 7-10 hours a week if it is for non-credit.

For more information and to apply, head to CareerLink, Job ID# 51349

Full-Time Opportunity: TransPerfect

TransPerfect is looking for a full-time Website Engineer. The candidate should be a Fordham graduate and have experience developing, managing, and maintaining websites. 

Responsibilities:

As a result of continued demand for our products and services, Translations.com, is looking for a bright, self-motivated Website Engineer to join our “startup within an established company” and work on a language translation project for our global clients. Your work will directly impact live websites of our worldwide client base with new clients being added every week.

Description:

- Analysis of web sites and applications for localization potential and time/material requirements

- Automation of analysis and file parsing and filtering, plus several other related activities

- Re-engineering of some components (re-coding, and other technical changes to accommodate localization-related adjustments, script writing, as required)

- Ensure compliance with clients requirements and integrity of data

- Interface and coordinate with project management and art-graphics personnel, sales and customers;provide input to pre-sale planning and estimating of projects

- Provide support to operations and sales management, as required

- Provide quotes on new projects for marketing/sales departments as needed

- Perform other special projects or duties when required

- Salary = Competitive

Qualifications:

- BA/BS Degree

- Fluency in English a must along with excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Fundamental understanding of HTML as seen by the browser.

- Fundamental understanding of CSS

- Fundamental understanding of JavaScript

- Must possess a sense of urgency and the ability to work under pressure

- Possess a high degree of pride in solid, quality work

- Must demonstrate quick and effective problem-solving abilities

Desired Skills:

- Foreign language and localization experience a definite plus

- Knowledge and understanding of websites; HTTP/HTTPS, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript

- Experience developing, managing, or maintaining websites

- Knowledge and understanding of Apache web servers and UNIX-based systems

- Must be self-directed, possess excellent time management skills and a strong business sense

- Willingness to work off hours as needed

- Detail-oriented and a committed to results

To apply, CLICK HERE. For more information head to CareerLink, Job ID# 51268