就业服务年度实习生(2022-23

The 就业服务实习计划 is an excellent way for students to be immersed in career advocacy and readiness. Every April, 主管提名一名表现突出的实习生, initiative, 年内的领导和影响. During the 2022-2023 school year, two amazing marketing interns won the hearts of our team! 下面是一个两部分的特别节目，以纪念这些不可思议的学生.

Madeline Kraus

玛德琳·克劳斯是365滚球官网的毕业生，拥有学士学位 Marketing, Management and Human Resources, and 现代西班牙语商务. She attended U of I between Fall 2019 and Spring 2023 and was a member of the Delta Gamma Panhellenic sorority. 她目前在Paylocity担任客户经理.

Madeline was a Social Media and Marketing Intern at Career Services for one year, 从2022年秋季到2023年春季. Before attending U of I, she was inspired to follow a path in marketing from her high school’s DECA club, 她将在哪里参加商业和销售活动. “我对向人们推销产品的心理学很感兴趣... 以及人们为什么买他们做的东西。”她说.

大三时，她在 Vandal Solutions, the student-led marketing firm, as a social media manager, 后来她被提升为人力资源副总裁. While keeping the position, Madeline also joined the Career Services team in the Fall of her senior year.

After the first semester, the Marketing, 职业服务部门的通讯和网络专员离职了, 让营销团队没有直接主管. 虽然一开始没有领导让我很有压力, 玛德琳把它当作一个成长和尝试新事物的机会.

“我得把这个职位变成我自己的，”她说. “My general job was just creating content to promote Career Services [and] share resources [the] Career Services has to offer... 我可以在社交媒体上做很多实验，这很有趣.”

玛德琳觉得职位的自由提高了她的技能, 因为几乎没有什么不发布的期望. “我真的很高兴团队给了我这样做的机会,她谈到自己的创作自由时说. “我觉得我的创造力增长了很多.”

In Delta Gamma, 后来，她担任了对话总司司长一职, 她是基金会的副主席, 这让她能够策划慈善活动. “经历整个过程是非常值得的, 但协调一切也很有挑战性,” she said. With her work, Delta Gamma held a week-long philanthropy event to raise $8,000 for charity.

Participating in these positions allowed Madeline to practice her skills in different areas, allowing her experiences to build on one another to make her well-seasoned in her career path. 每件好事都可能有坏处, though—Madeline struggled with balancing her busy schedule amidst her hard work.

Madeline joked that her college planner was her “very best friend” and that she couldn’t go anywhere without it. 她说:“我会把一切都写下来，尽量把事情说清楚。. She also talked about staying present in her commitments and giving them her all, 把干扰和其他期望放在一边.

“我认为在任何时候都做到百分百是不可能的, 但知道什么时候需要它是一项很好的技能,” she said.

Madeline found a link between working at Career Services and being involved in marketing and business. 人际关系和职业发展都是关于推销自己. 而营销是关于销售你的产品.” She said she was able to take what she learned in her marketing classes and apply it to herself, with the help of and sharing an environment with the resources and consultants at Career Services.

Her position in Career Services allowed her to form strong connections with both the team and various people around campus. 她利用我们顾问的知识，与 Jen Goodwin about her resume and job searching, which she said was “really influential”.

“I feel like [the Career Services internship] really enhanced my education by [giving] hands on experience in my field of study,” she said. “我觉得这不是你在课堂上总能得到的东西.”

Her advice to future Vandals was to take advantage of the opportunities that the University of Idaho provides. “I feel like I was able to have a really good experience in my career field before graduating,” she reflected.

我们为玛德琳感到骄傲，我们迫不及待地想知道她会去哪里! We know she is more than capable of success, and we’re excited to see where her path takes her.

Addison Thomson

Addison Thomson is a University of Idaho student pursuing a bachelor's in Advertising with a minor in Philosophy, alongside a 社交媒体营销证书. She’s attended U of I since Fall 2020 and will be graduating Spring 2024. She’s also a member of the 三角洲三角洲泛希腊姐妹会 on campus. She currently works at Micael McKenzie Inc Creative as a social media and content manager.

Addison was a Marketing and Graphic Design Intern at the Career Services for two years, 从2022年秋季到2024年春季. Intrigued by graphic design, Addison’s passions started in high school after taking classes on it. “我真的很喜欢它，想做一些有创意的事情, 在那里我也可以做一些可能帮助世界的事情,” she said.

“高中时我参加了很多课外活动——我参加了戏剧表演, graphic design, yearbook and the newspaper,” Addison said. For a senior project, 她为一个募捐活动做市场营销和活动策划, 是什么激发了她专门做广告.

在我大学工作了一年之后 Argonaut as a page designer and realizing it wasn’t a fit for her, she went on the job search again. Her position at Career Services inspired her particular interest in social media marketing, 从她在办公室工作的第二年开始, 她主要负责Instagram上的营销.

Her work as the Tri Delta Director of Philanthropy inspired a humanitarian outlook on her chosen career field, 因为她与分会的慈善组织St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

“That really pushed me to pursue [being] more of an advocate [in the] advertising field,” she said. “我想与非营利组织和小型企业合作, 帮助他们建立自己的品牌，这样他们就不会破产.”

“Working towards doing good in the world and helping people out is something that I really wanted to do. 很多人认为广告是一种非常负面的概念, because they think of it as the big-company commercials that are making millions and millions of dollars and taking away from people—but it can be so much more,” she said. “I think that my choice to pursue that definitely was influenced by my upbringing as well as working with St. Jude in Tri Delta.”

At Career Services, 在她的上司第一年中途离职后, 她认为这是一个学习的机会. 当这个职位在艾迪生的第二年由金赛·沃尔特填补时, Addison was excited, 因为她之前曾和金赛一起工作过 365滚球官网广告竞赛团队.

“We came up with great ideas and I ended up getting more into the social media position,” she said. “只是看到……(文案实习生), me and Kinsey, with all of our different niches and what we were good at was really neat to see.”

“The camaraderie of the team that I was on… helped me develop my professional skills as well as my personal skills. Being able to work with people and navigating different tasks in a team was [valuable],” she added.

Addison reflected on how working with the Career Services allowed her to hone skills she was learning over time, taking the first year of her internship to expand her creativity and her second to apply it to a fresh marketing team and campaign. 她的成长和她学到的东西的价值怎么说都不为过, showing how her time here gave her the skills necessary to enter the workforce prepared, more than qualified and inspired.

“I would not be as successful as I am without Career Services and all the people in it, 对此我永远感激不尽,她在采访快结束时补充道. 我们为艾迪生和她所做的所有不可思议的工作感到骄傲. 广告界要注意这一点!

Victoria Kingsmore

Career Services Marketing Intern