• RT: @InternshipKing After 125,093 Votes, the Internship King is… @intuit ! Congrats! http://www.InternshipKing.com #

• Great Masters tournament today! I love Fred Couples #
• Vote! Over 4,000 votes – http://www.InternshipKing.com. Check it out. #
• http://www.GrouperEye.com – check out jobs and strategy challenges #

• 1,100+ Votes in 48 hours. America's Best Internship – http://www.InternshipKing.com – Very cool. #

Vote! People’s Choice Award For America’s Best Internship
April 3, 2010
Charlotte, NC

On May 5th only one internship will be crowned as The King! InternshipKing.com is hosting the people’s choice award for America’s Best Internship. The stage is set. The top 50 internships have been profiled. Now it’s up to the students, faculty, and public to vote!

How it works:
1. April 1-25: Vote for America’s best internship
2. April 25: Top 10 internships announced. Final round of voting begins.
3. May 5: Voting ends. America’s best internship announced.

“Our goal is to celebrate great internships because they add tremendous value for students,” said InternshipKing.com founder Ted Williams. “Company internship programs are often ignored and it’s about time we bring attention to companies that care about developing young talent.”

The top 50 internships come from all different types of companies. From investment banking internships like Goldman Sachs to advertising internships like Mullen. From large scale internship programs like Disney (2,000+ interns) to small internship programs like the Meyocks Group (3 interns).

What are you waiting for? Go vote for your favorite internship!

For more information, email ted@internshipking.com or call 202.431.7509.

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Here are 3 quick tips for writing a killer marketing or advertising internship cover letter.

(3) Get Creative. The marketing or advertising agencies that you are applying to value creativity: therefore, get creative! And, this does not just apply to creative internships, but planning, strategy, account, and new business internships. A former colleague of mine sent a show into MTV as her internship cover letter with slogans attached to the show reading: I will put my heart and sole into this internship, I will lace up new clients, etc. Yes, she did get the job.

(2) Be Funny. Most ad agencies receive thousands of internship cover letters and internship resumes. You have to stand out and you can’t forget that there are real people reading your advertising internship cover letter! Who wouldn’t want to read a funny internship cover letter and then share it with their co-workers.

(1) Measure your past performance like you’d measure a campaign. Analytics have never been more important in marketing and advertising. Show that you think about you measure your performance the same way that you would measure a campaign.

If I could choose one tip to pass along about writing an internship cover letter, it would be this: write for the reader.

Ask, the question: “Who is going to be reading my internship cover letter?” And think: how can I get the reaction from this reader that I want.

This is critical. The reader’s emotions and motivations will drive a decision. It’s not a machine that is reading these thousands of internship cover letters, it’s an actual human being. This goes largely overlooked. Students must think about the reader and write an internship cover letter that fits into the reader’s worldview. So, what do I mean?

Let’s take for example a university recruiter from Exxon and compare it to the hr lead at a local 30 person ad agency. The difference is night and day. The Exxon university recruiter will care less about creativity and more about, can I justify this person to our hiring managers. Professionalism is important. But, for the ad agency, it may even be the president that reads your cover letter. She will want to know about you as a person, whether or not you can generate revenue, and maybe even a funny story that the president can share with the office.

Readers are different. Don’t treat them the same. Craft your internship cover letter to the reader.
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5 internship cover letter mistakes and 7 tips for an effective internship cover letter.