Category Archives: internships

Why You Should Be Aggressive About What You Want: How An Email Can Change Everything

How being aggressive and sending one email changed my career path.

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How to Prepare to Find the Spring Internship of Your Dreams in New York City

Four tips to prepare for landing your dream spring internship.

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Start Something: Why Every Creative Needs to Be an Entrepreneur, Wed. Sept 21 at The New School

Don’t miss out on the chance to hear from four talented and creative entrepreneurs.

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Hustle 101 – Networking for Recent Grads: Skillshare Class Recap

Topics Covered included What is Hustle, Why Going To Events is Important, How to Stand Out, How to Find Great Events, and The Art of Reaching Out

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Four Clutch Tips from Four Inspirational Artists

Wow. Tonight NY Creative Interns hosted it’s fourth meetup. It was held at Etsy Labs in DUMBO! The event was a great success thanks to our amazing NYCi Team, Etsy, and our fantastic panelists. Plus, NYCi brings out the coolest, nicest, most interesting crowds! Thanks to all who came! Below are snippets of my favorite [...]

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How to Use Meetup to Find an Internship

In honor of Meetup.com sponsoring our next NYCi event, continue on to find out how to snag a sweet internship through Meetup. NY Creative Interns Meetup has already landed several internship hopefuls cool internship positions. You can be next!

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How To Prepare for a Networking Event: The Best Tips from a Great Twitter Chat

Topic: How To Prepare for a Networking Event. Why? Our Kickoff Event is a week away! Here’s a recap of my favorite tips and tweets:

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How Social Media Saved My Life: An Artist Learns to Quit and Start Over

I met Jason Lewis at the social media workshop I ran in early November, Where Do You Belong in Social Media. We both learned a lot of great social media tips from each other that night, as we both agreed that everyone has to forge their own way and learn by doing, “you’re like Sacagawea and I’m like Lewis or Clarke or something!” he said.

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NY Creative Interns: I’m Doing that Whole Pipe Dream Thing #nyci1210

So I’ve had this idea for awhile…how can I help people who are looking for internships, who maybe don’t know where to start. This wanted to help in a mainstream way came about towards the end of college I had a lot of people asking me for advice on resumes, interviews, where to look, etc…

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Awesome Creative Internship: Howcast

“Approaching two million downloads across iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry phones, Howcast is the #1 mobile app for instructional content — wherever you are.”

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