Experience Matters - Grand Valley State University

Changing Lives One Puppy at a Time

Brittany
Major: Advertising & Public Relations While at Paws, I worked directly with the development team on monthly newsletters and e-newsletters, website material, all social media platforms, and, of course, puppy play time! Alone, I created a campaign for Instagram which is now being used, and I also had the opportunity to do a photo shoot for the current billboard campaign in West Michigan.

Experience in The Work Place

Nicole
Major: Advertising & Public Relations Created and ran an AdWords campaign for ten weeks, made regular and necessary corrections and improvement to the company website. I also did a lot of a research on the target audience and the different channels of communication to them. I developed promotional materials for the company and

Perrin Internship

Connor
Major: Advertising & Public Relations Create News release Discuss potential advertising tactics Maintain the company Instagram Assisted in the promotion and running of Grand Rapids beer week events and Winter Beer Festival Assisted in brewery when help was needed.

Junior Executive

Curtis
Major: Advertising & Public Relations I was in the Creative Dept. I was given creative briefs from real clients then came together with the creative director and other interns and created video spots, radio spots, billboards and posters and many other creative things. Use lots of Illustrator and Photoshop.

Marketing/PR Internship

Abigail
Major: Advertising & Public Relations I worked with the marketing department for the school and added some public relations aspects to their programs.

Strategic National Internship

Rachel
Major: Advertising & Public Relations I worked on the Lt. Gov. Brian Calley's reelection campaign, specifically in the area of precinct delegate recruitment. Since in Michigan the lt. gov. is elected by delegates at state convention, the recruitment of these individuals is extremely important. My tasks and projects included volunteer coordinating more than 2,000 volunteers at the Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, gathering endorsements for the candidate, organizing and monitoring Calley's social media and incoming email, contributing to the scheduling of campaign stops, and more.

A Great Place to Intern

Lauren
Major: Advertising & Public Relations While participating in this internship I assisted on commercial shoots, specifically with the set-up of equipment such as lighting, cameras, set design, etc. I also edited footage for promo packages that were aired on the station. In addition, I also wrote scripts for commercials and illustrated a logo.

The Journey Begins

Kelly
Major: Multimedia Journalism During the course of my internship, I assisted the producer for the West Michigan Live show, and then worked in the newsroom for the other part of my shift. For the morning show, I would help with pre and post production by finding statistics and other stories that would help to prep Neal Dionne (host for the show), and after the show I would update the website with the podcast and blog. In regards to the newsroom, I would interview subjects for news stories, write the stories, and edit the audio.

The Kirsten Haglund Foundation

Mollie
Major: Multimedia Journalism Job Description As an intern for the Kirsten Haglund Foundation I had multiple responsibilities. My title was the social media and events intern. I was responsible for creating press releases and sending the press releases out to multiple news sources. I would then follow up with these news organizations in an effort to get Kirsten Haglund, founder of the organization, in the media to promote various events that we would be putting on. I was also responsible for creating event advertisements through constant contacts. As an intern I would go to every event and help put the event on by helping set up at the event and by helping with multiple activities during the event. Promoting the Kirsten Haglund Foundation through social media was another very important job that I had. I was responsible for promoting various events and articles through multiple social media sources. As an intern for this foundation I had many job responsibilities that took a fair amount of my time to meet.

Production Internship

Antonio
Major: Multimedia Journalism Assisted camera operators, learned how to work teleprompter, learned how to properly cue talent, etc.

Internship

Brooke
Major: Health Communication While at Frankenmuth Insurance, I assigned claims to the appropriate adjusters. I was also able to handle my own minor medical only claims. While doing this, I called the claimant, insured and health provider. I made all the decisions based on these claims, with help from co-workers occasionally. I also helped other adjusters pay medical bills, attorney fees, mileage and transportation costs, if needed. I also worked on various projects for my supervisor and other co-workers. Other various clerical projects were my responsibility while I worked at Frankenmuth Insurance.

Health Communications Intern

Nichole
Major: Health Communication I helped organize, prepare and plan for retreats, fundraisers and events. I was directly involved with retreats, fundraisers and helping provide a face for Bluebird. I worked alongside of the Executive President of the organization and helped assist her in any needs in the process of the 2014 year.

Building Software at Meijer

Jacob
Major: Information Systems While at Meijer, I developed a web application for the Business Intelligence team. The application incorporated C#, HTML / CSS, JavaScript and JQuery, and DB2 Z/OS. What does that mean? It means I've learned a lot of new skills during my time at Meijer. My project was, in short, a web application that allowed specific users to update, delete, and insert records into existing databases.

Internship with Jackson

Cory
Major: Information Systems I worked directly with multiple project leads on various On-boarding initiatives, produced weekly reports using Excel and VBA embedded to automate information needed to help with New hire metrics as they relate to the helpdesk, created a database used to display the results received from 3rd Party Vendors as it relates to security, and other various Operations focused duties.

Great Experience

Cameron
Major: Information Systems -Troubleshooting and repairing printer issues -Repairing and building hardware for employees -Installing and repairing software and performing upgrades -Editing users in Active Directory -Documenting processes for users -Troubleshooting and solving of help-desk issues

Great

Nicholas
Major: Information Systems I completed several projects that were all over the board in terms of experience needed.

International Marketing

Meaghan
Major: Marketing Each week, I compiled an excel chart recording the numbers of all of the Chrysler brands international social media channels. Each week I would record these numbers and also check for content that was being shared on the social media channels. I would then create a report highlighting what was successful on international social media and what progress the countries social media were experiencing. I also assisted the international staff in any meeting they had and assisted in any other additional tasks that they needed. Also worked on the Dodge Dart case competition and created a mock campaign for the car.

adidas Group Internship

Trevor
Major: Sport Management I updated Marketing Overhead and Marketing working budget for marketing groups. Reclassed expenses to be charged to the correct cost center using SAP. I created organization charts for the company. Updated athlete contracts on athlete management system (AMS), an online database for storing details of athlete contracts. I also consolidated bank charges onto excel spreadsheets and organized binders with various lease agreements, bank guarantees, and line of credits.

Class Operations/Facility Coordinator

Teren
Major: Sport Management The type of internship I was assigned was to fill certain roles that of a Program State Director/Cheer Program Manager/Class Operations/Corporate Management. I spent a majority of the time working in the class operations department with scheduling, booking and coordinating events, advertising and marketing, hiring and human resources, customer service, quality control. In the Young Champions inventory and accounting departments, I dealt with budgeting, facility profit and loss review, class report processing, inventory design, and order processing. I was given the opportunity to gain overall knowledge on how a business functions from the small details to the big picture. Over the course of this internship, I gained insight to customer expectations by working in depth with the quality control team. I was in charge of scheduling for over 200 class locations for more than one program (cheerleading and self-defense) which allowed me to sharpen my organizational skills. This was also true for our event scheduling and planning. The event coordinating aspect of my position assisted me in developing management and other team leadership skills.

Girl's Freshman Head Soccer Coach

Steven
Major: Sport Management I planned, organized, coached and communicated with 18 players, their parents, other coaches, the Athletic Director, and other school board staff in coaching this team.

Sports Leadership

Luke
Major: Sport Management It was a lot of Event Management. You would help set up for events like the Meijer State Games, Transplant Games of America, The Color Run, and the U.S. Open Table Tennis. You have to work long hours and have to be able to communicate well with others.

Game & Event Operations

Nico
Major: Sport Management Tasks include but are not limited to set up and tear down of all field equipment used during the game, set up of scoreboards and music. Hosted visiting team and officials, aided with direction as far as where these visiting teams and officials are supposed to go.

Griffins Internship

Mitch
Major: Sport Management When I was interning with the Grand Rapids Griffins I was in charge of select concourse areas on game nights, as well as working in the box office with the ticketing operations team. There were times that we as interns had special projects to take care of, this meant coming in on weekends and overseeing the cross ice jamboree and season ticket holder events. I also monitored post game autograph sessions and jersey auctions that took place throughout the regular season.

GV Football Summer 2013

Mitch
Major: Sport Management While working for Coach Mitchell and Grand Valley's football team I was able to monitor and oversee numerous events. I worked as the liaison during the MHSAA All-Star game, ensuring each high school team on campus had everything they needed, working 14 hour days and multiple practices. I also monitored Grand Valley's annual youth camps that they hold each summer, keeping track of timing and scheduling so that the camp didn't go to long. Seeing that it was the off season for the football program there wasn't a lot of hands on experience, but I learned a lot from shadowing and networking with the coaching staff. I look forward to coming back in the fall and working with the Coach Mitchell throughout the season.

Rec Facilities Intern experience

Daniel
Major: Sport Management Worked on benching marking and fundraising projects related to recreation space, enrollment, space per student, as well as fundraising research for student organizations. Learned about day to day operations and maintenance of all rec facilities, including all outdoor rec, rec center, pool, fitness center, weight room, Kelly Turf building. Help with preventative maintenance tasks, worked with student staff, attending monthly staff meetings, as well as weekly meeting with management. Help with set-up and tear down of some events and activities, and learned about scheduling and memberships.