Friday, May 27, 2011

News!

Just to keep you all up-to-date:  I had 3 interviews this week and I've gotten an internship for the summer!! It's at W***** Ad Agency; they're pretty cool they do the St. Louis Cardinals (the baseball team- big $$), Bass Pro Shops, and others.  Right now they really need a receptionist, so I'll have to do some of those duties, but I will have a chance to get involved in copy writing for their work!  It's exactly what I want to do, so I'm excited.  It's not paid, but I did get a small stipend for gas and parking.  It could also turn into a full-time, paid position at the end of the summer!  Needless to say I'm super excited!

Also, kind of hilariously, after I accepted this position, one of the other places that I interviewed (called tS****.. a super small search, social media marketing firm) emailed me and said I got their internship.  I had to call them today and tell them, someone already snapped my talents up!  Ok, my parents forcefully suggested I call instead of emailing her back, but it wasn't as awkward as I was expecting.  The other place I interviewed still hasn't called me back though.  It was another search engine optimization place called G** M Search, I liked it the least, so maybe I didn't get that one anyway.  During the G****M interview though, the HR guy I was talking to started preparing me to talk to the CEO, who may or may not have been a little crazy... he seemed like a Steve Jobs kinda guy, very techie, revered for his knowledge, etc.  He tried to really grill me during the interview, but I think I held my own well enough.

Anyway, this was probably much more detail than any of you wanted, so I'll leave it there...  but I'm a little surprised I found something this fast.  I was expecting to have to send out another round of pleas to companies.  But I guess since its unpaid, it's more like a 3 month interview...  we'll see how it goes, and if I like what I thought I would in the ad world.

5 comments:

  1. Hey you, congratulations!!! I'm so excited for you!! It's about danged time that someone finally realized how awesome you are. Jeebus. Let us know how the internship goes, yea? (Also, let me know when/if you'll be able to make it up to IA! Please tell me you still can?)

    Also, something is super wonky with commenting on people's entries. It tells me that I need to sign in to comment, and so I do, but when I get back on the POW page, it says I'm signed out, so I can't comment. I'm going to use my LJ to comment for now until I can get it figured out (unless someone knows the answer to this...?)

    Congrats again, Allya~~ <3 <3

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  2. By the way, xyueguangx is Ada Wong. Just in case. :)

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  3. Hmm. That's weird. When you get onto the POW homepage, it should have a link in the upper right hand corner to sign-in or your signed in email. When I've signed in on the POW site, I've never had that problem. I think it takes you to your personal homepage then you can click the View Blog link. That's all I know though..

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  4. When I go to the POW page all I see is little demons dancing around in circles. Their heads twirl and tell me to burn things.
    Also, woot!

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  5. That's awesome Shannon. Sorry I'm just now reading it, my life has actually been briefly busy.

    I'm so proud of you. You've got an amazing work ethic girl. Tell me how it goes!

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