Inspiring Interns Newsletter

Please click here if the e-mail below is not displayed correctly   What a treat we had this weekend! We hope you all found your way down to the beach. To make that weekend feeling last then keep reading for all the usual graduate news, blogs and newest vacancies. Big news! Inspiring Interns are celebrating the release of 'Brilliant Intern' written by our very own marketing manager Andrew Scherer. Buy your copy here! If you are looking for an internship, send us your CV and see what we can do for you. Remember if you have any questions or queries check out our FAQs page or get in touch via phone, email, Twitter or Facebook!       Have a read of our success stories to see who has begun an internship this week and who has earned themselves a permanent job.       Merchandising Internship Sales & Retail   Central London, UK 3 months Internship   Apply Now Digital Marketing Assistant Digital Marketing   Central London, UK 3 months Internship   Apply Now Junior Financial Compliance Assistant Finance   Central London, UK 3 months Internship   Apply Now           HR and Talent Acquisition Internship HR & Recruitment   Central London, UK 3 months Internship   Apply Now Account Executive for Fashion House Fashion, Business Development, Sales & Retail   Central London, UK 3 months Internship   Apply Now Web Design Internship Computing, IT & Web Design   Central London, UK 3 months Internship   Apply Now           Congratulations to the following who began internships in the last week from the Inspiring team! Stella Billios, Katernine Mellor, Yasmin Khatun, Filip Ljubicic, Natasha Tucker, Laura Dittmon, Patrick Lemon, Mandeep Gill, John Stocks, Sean Hutchinson...well done! A big well done to Alissa Steiner, Lucy Watson, Natasha Hutchinson, Richard Hirson, Ankit Shah who started permanent roles this week!     Blogging your way to a career Last year, celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton was offered $20m for his website PerezHilton.com. The blog quickly transformed the gossip site guru into one of the most recognised celebrity bloggers and influential people on the web. Obviously not everybody will bag fame and fortune from their blogs, but they undoubtedly open doors to other opportunities and are a great way to build an online reputation. Blogs can showcase your talents, improve your writing skills and even enhance your chances of finding work and impressing potential employers. Click here to read on...         Off into the world – guest blog Guest post written by MA Literary Studies graduate, Laura Blake. So I've just completed my MA dissertation. A long, hard year spent buried in the library and forgoing Saturday nights have (hopefully) paid off, and in less than a weeks' time I'll be leaving university for good and taking my first steps out into the big wide world, armed with nothing more than my degree and my CV. Oh help. Of course, I've also got the knowledge that I'd do a really, really good job in my chosen field. The trouble now is convincing other people of that fact! I'd love to work in magazine publication or book publishing, so my task is to figure out how I am going to stand out, get my foot in the door and get my hands on a job. But where to start? Click here to read on...   My Internship   Name Alessander Argenti Age 23 What is your favourite brand and why? HTC - their entry into the smartphone market has been so impressive, plus their design and advertisement is extremely clever and stylish. Qualifications BA in History and International Relations. Why did you do an internship? To further my career opportunities in a new work environment. What does your internship involve? I work in social media advertisement, learning how to run digital campaigns for some huge brands. Your favourite part of your internship? The novelty and excitement of working in a young, but fast-growing market. Any advice for future interns? A strong work ethic is crucial for a sucessful internship but initiative is even more. Describe yourself in three words Determined, creative and hard-working.           Students to pay up to £50 an hour to attend lectures Students will pay as much as £50 to attend a lecture at some universities, an investigation has revealed. Figures from a range of institutions show wide variation in the amount of "contact time" with academics that undergraduates will get once tuition fees rise next year to up to £9,000 a year. In some arts subjects, the amount paid by first-year undergraduates for each hour they spend in the lecture hall or classroom will vary from £15 to £50 per hour depending on where they study. Click here to read on...     7th Floor Haines House 21b John Street London WC1N 2BP Email: cv@inspiringinterns.com Tel: +44 (0)207 269 6720 Blog Facebook LinkedIn Twitter     If you no longer want to receive our weekly newsletter, you can let us know here.