Greetings Everyone! Allow me to introduce myself. My title is Sasha Fahy, and I’m at the moment a senior at Chapman University with a main in Strategic and Corporate Communication and a minor in Entrepreneurship. This previous fall semester, I had the privilege of interning as a social media advertising intern at Amp and Go. Amp and Go is a social media advertising firm that specializes in being the center floor to attach manufacturers and influencers. In different phrases, Amp and Go serves as the matchmaker to assist influencers join with manufacturers, and in return, these influencers can higher promote the model if they’ve comparable platforms. Their companies assist them each. The model or firm get extra consciousness about who they’re and acquire a wider target market from the influencer’s assist, and the influencers receives a commission to advertise these manufacturers which have some connection to their platform.
I discovered this internship by means of a job posting on LinkedIn in the summertime. I used to be immediately intrigued by the position and place that the firm was searching for. When I noticed their description of the kind of worker they have been searching for, I felt that with my persona and abilities, I might be a sturdy candidate for the position. Soon after, I utilized, and by chance, the course of was simple. I uploaded my resume and crammed out their software. Following that, one of the hiring managers from Amp and Go contacted me, asking for an interview. The interview course of was much less tense than I believed since this could quickly grow to be my first internship. A few weeks after my interview, I acquired an e mail and was supplied the job. Though this internship was a distant and unpaid place, I used to be nonetheless keen and in being a half of the staff, particularly since I would like a future profession in advertising. I immediately knew I wished to just accept this position for the information and expertise.
A picture of me working remotely, doing my day by day plan of actions for Amp&Go.
Some of my main duties as a Social Media Marketing Intern have been becoming a member of calls to fulfill with my supervisor and fellow interns to go over new methods and abilities to search for when discovering expertise. Our supervisor would inform us the variety of expertise/influencers to seek for and confirmed us useful methods to make our searches simpler. Every day if we didn’t have a name, I used to be tasked with discovering expertise by means of varied social media platforms reminiscent of Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, and Twitter. I used to be requested to seek out 50-100 influencers that had a sure following, sure quantity of views, and needed to match the model in a sure approach. After we acquired the plan of motion for the day, we might discover the expertise and standards that was given and enter them into an excel spreadsheet. We would enter the following info: common views, contact info, expertise title, and the social media hyperlinks of these influencers. It was then as much as our managers and better up people to achieve out to those influencers and join the manufacturers to the expertise.
A picture of the place I might enter the expertise/influencers I discovered to the firm spreadsheet.
One of the most dear issues I realized whereas interning at Amp and Go was how essential it’s to be organized and have good/efficient communication together with your friends and supervisors. In juggling work calls and organizing my expertise finds inside the Excel sheet, I realized how one can preserve work organized and date all the pieces so it doesn’t get blended up with different knowledge. I additionally realized the worth and significance of good relationships with coworkers, fellow interns, and most significantly, your supervisor. My supervisor was extraordinarily useful each time I might ask her for instructions on how one can deal with a undertaking or if I used to be unclear about one thing. I spotted it was important to talk up and ask questions if I used to be not sure. Lastly, I observed how essential it was to have a good relationship with my fellow interns so we may all have one another’s backs and remind one another that we’re in this collectively.
In conclusion, I had a constructive expertise whereas working with Amp and Go as my first internship. Though it was distant, and I labored from my laptop, my time, experiences, and work I put in helped put together me for future careers to come back. This was a good first internship expertise as a result of the firm tradition was useful and affected person with each other, and everybody was pleased to work with each other, which I actually loved. Some recommendation that I might give to college students who’re not sure or questioning if they need to intern at a firm like Amp and Go, is to go for it. I used to be scared that it will be a handful as my first internship, however I’m so glad I did it and realized a lot from it. Not solely did it assist widen my community, however I gained actual-world expertise that may higher put together me for the profession I wish to work in. I additionally realized issues about myself alongside the approach, and now I’ve a higher grasp and understanding of what fields I wish to work in.
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