Small is the New Big for Interns

The title for this post is shamelessly borrowed from thoughtLEADERS, LLC blog entry about their internships.

Internships are a great way to gain work experience for jobs that require you have work experience. It is one of those viscous cycles. You can’t gain experience to get the job you want unless you have the experience first. Internships are a great way to get that experience so you can break that cycle and land that job.

One of the great ways to get experience is to intern with smaller companies. Why? You get a lot more responsibility than you might otherwise. You work more closely with the people that matter. You can make contributions where you see the results of your work. You’re not going to have to fight as hard to see your ideas get implemented. All of that means when you get that job interview down the road, you can really talk up those experiences of what you actually did and be able to show the company the results of your hard work. You have some one involved higher up with the company who can give you a reference.

Fan History is looking for several interns. So if you’re looking for some of the advantages that you can get working with a small company, consider doing an internship with Fan History LLC. We have four available internships.

Why intern for Fan History specifically? Because we’re growing and we’re faced with all the challenges that other small start-ups have. Your work will help us continue to grow in a way that you’ll be able to tell future employers. If you’re interested in our python internship, you might be able to say that your actions helped us add over 100,000 articles to our wiki project and your work updates over 5,000 articles a day. If you’re our Search Engine Optimization internship, you can talk about how your efforts led Fan History to increase our search traffic by 500 visitors a day. (Which is no small feat. Trust us.) If you’re our social media intern or our community outreach intern, you can talk about the relationships you developed and what they meant for Fan History’s traffic and the number of contributions to our sites. We’ll also help you work with your college or university to get you credit, write you a recommendation on LinkedIn and be willing to references for future jobs. And you get all that with out having to leave home to complete your internship.