Category: Start stage
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Quality Comes Standard. My New Balance journey of one year in 575 words
How does it feel to work for a company you adore? After constantly applying for internships and getting rejections, or not hearing anything back for 2 months, I received an email from New Balance inviting me to an interview for the role of CRM and Email Marketing Intern. I didn’t know what CRM stand for…
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Dare to Say No to No
My internship experience started with rejection. At the start, I felt unconfident in navigating the Dutch job market. I hadn’t had much prior job experience, had no Bachelor’s degree (yet), and had just come out of burnout. Towards the end of February, however, my luck began to change. I had applied in response to a…
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Tips for applying for an internship
Are you about to start your internship? If you are anything like me, you are probably stressing about it. How will you find an internship? What if no one will hire you? What if you won’t like your internship? To hopefully take away some of the application stress, I have decided to note down some…
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Stage vinden in het buitenland
Toen ik hoorde dat ik de mogelijkheid had om stage in het buitenland te lopen, was ik daar meteen geïnteresseerd in. Ik was mij ervan bewust dat het vinden van een stage in het buitenland misschien wat lastiger is dan een stage in Amsterdam. En als je dan al een stage hebt gevonden moet je…
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Landing internship at healthtech startup
I’ve got an internship at Founda Health. It’s a healthcare technology startup in Amsterdam. How did I find it and why did I choose a startup? I’ll write my stories in this blog. It includes: How did I attain my internship: A month of applying and interviewing Why did I choose Founda: The startup spirit…
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Lichtpuntjes in de duisternis bij Stichting Opkikker
Ik heb besloten om een post te schrijven in de derde week van mijn stage. Ik heb mijn stage gevonden op Indeed. In december 2021 begon ik mijn zoektocht naar een stage. Waar zocht ik naar in een stage? Qua werkzaamheden wist ik al vanaf het begin dat ik het liefst wat met sociale media…
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“Will this stuff ever be useful in my career?”
TL;DR: It sure can be. My internship was my first job ever on an academic level, in a corporate setting. Naturally, I was anxious through the whole application process. I attended career workshops well beforehand, talked to advisors, and asked whoever I knew for their experiences. These tips and tricks I learned from others helped enormously in…
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Choosing your hard.
I finally know what I want my future to look like – for now. I am approaching this journey as a blank canvas. Do not get me wrong, I had a curiosity about public relations. I did not know anything about it but enough to know that it had to do with the external aspect of…
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Opzoek naar een passende stage – LHH
Vlak na de zomer van 2021 ben ik op zoek gegaan naar een geschikte stageplek voor mij. Ik had al wat baantjes gehad in het verleden maar daar had ik nooit een echte sollicitatiebrief of cv voor hoeven laten zien. Hier begon de eerste uitdaging: zorgen voor een goed cv en een goede brief. Ik heb…
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Making a Hit – An Internship at a Record Label
When I first joined New Ams, I was merely a beginner in anything related to the music business. However, having already had experience working in the music industry as a music producer, DJ and rapper I thought I was quite prepared. How awfully wrong I was. I came into the company as a marketing and…