Fall For-Credit Internship in Sales for Business, Marketing, Accounting, and Graphic Design Students
The Xerox - Document Consulting Fall Internship is a For-Credit mentoring and training opportunity for any student or recent graduate who wants to sharpen their selling skills and put into practice their marketing expertise. This internship is learning-intensive and highly values creative collaboration. Your primary mentors will be our Director of Sales with 30 years experience in the industry and a keen, insightful, psychology-based approach to modern business practices, and a longtime university professor of liberal and fine arts who specializes in bringing a fresh "outsider" creative approach to perennial business challenges. In addition to positions in our entrepreneurial program, we also have opportunities for accounting and graphic design interns. We work closely with your school's requirements to help insure that you receive college credit for your work in additional to invaluable on-the-job training, and the potential to be considered for hiring upon your successful completion of our program.
Learning Opportunities/Outcomes
1. Experience Real Business under Fortune 500 process and infrastructure.
2. Work on multiple hands-on real business projects, objectives, and deadlines; hone your
time management skills.
3. Apply and test your coursework content/knowledge in a dynamic business environment.
4. Practice innovating and creating in a mentored training relationship with Director of Sales.
5. Learn Solid Marketing and Sales Skills that Increase Real-World Relevancy
6. Learn Best Practices for Existing Customer Retention and Non-User Engagement
7. Learn Professional Vocabulary and High-Level Confidence in Business-to-Business Transactions
8. Sharpen your professional communication skills/learn to communicate with professionalism and efficacy to the C-Level person within organizations.
9. Discover the leverage point where your skill-base meets your passion.
10. Develop to your full potential.
Projects Include
- Contacting customers via phone and email
- Strategizing and implementing
(launching) Direct Mail campaigns
- Marketing to New Logo accounts
- Planning and Implementing
(hosting) Open House events
- Preparing
and coordinating scheduled marketing blitzes
The Accounting/Back Office Support position will be mentored in diverse back-office projects including data entry, collections, light IT functions and designing streamlined processes to optimize our organization’s success.
Our Internship Mentors take great care in crafting an individualized internship that is right for your skill set, temperament, and career goals while affording you the chance to try out new job roles and responsibilities.