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Whats up guys, long time lurker on vital with a few posts here or there.
Im currently attending school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln studying business and marketing and I'm wondering if any of you guys who have the "in" in the industry know of any companies that take summer interns? Just using this as a starting point so I don't spam my resume to companies for no reason.
Im currently attending school at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln studying business and marketing and I'm wondering if any of you guys who have the "in" in the industry know of any companies that take summer interns? Just using this as a starting point so I don't spam my resume to companies for no reason.
Research the companies you think you might want to work for and then contact them directly. Research who runs the sales or marketing departments at XYZ company and contact those people directly. Don't email them. Call them or mail a well-worded cover letter addressed to them explaining how awesome you are, how passionate you are about marketing and motorcycles and how much you would gain from an internship at their company. Wait about a week or two and then call them as a friendly follow-up to see if they got your letter. You will impress them.
If you want to succeed in life, your first starting point should not be posting messages on Vital asking for help. No one succeeds in life doing that.
But if I were you, and you wanted to get into the industry, work at a motorcycle dealership, and use that as the first rung for sales experience, next thing you know, the state manager for a distributer will have you in the back room asking if you're interested in working for them as a sales rep, marketing guy etc.
I work at a dealership now, and I've had countless opportunities arise for me to work in marketing and sales side of things with the distributers. I hate to say it, but getting into the industry, without going to a dealership first, is a hard thing to do. I also imagine your job would be easiest if you were based out of CA.
And LinkedIn is a must for any professional position search or networking.
Remember the key to networking is not to ask for a job, ask for lessons and advice, building relationship and connections lead to jobs.
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If your passion is genuine eventually someone will give you a shot.
But I wouldn't even put it as an internship, I would go in there just as a casual/part time worker and ask to run their socials, and websites, on top of any bike shop duties (sales, entering invoices etc.) They normally pay outside contractors huge money to do their website stuff. Do a few sales campaigns a year, keep everything active and up to date.
If it helps, my partner just landed herself a graduate position for a building company, her first job? Make their FB, insta, Pinterest, websites etc. all very active and practical. Start with the small stuff and put it on your resume till you land what you're after. In all honesty, after working in the industry, you may find it's not where you want to work at all.
Send me an e-mail on mathew.ingham@outlook.com, I have something you might wanna look at.
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