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Before I started my process of trying to find an internship, I met with Janae, our internship coordinator. I told her that I was interested in marketing and communications and the social media aspect of it all. She helped me brainstorm different ideas and then gave me a list of contacts to reach out to. I reached out to all five of the contacts. I was hoping to be able to go to my first choice, Marketing Concepts Squared, but they were the one of the first ones to reach out to me and say they would love to have me but they already had an intern. It disappointed me but I thought that there was a probably a better fit for me at one of the other companies. The Durango Area Tourism Office was also one of the first to reach out to me and said that they would love to have me. One of the other companies didn't answer back and another one told me that they normally hire college students as interns but might be able to have me there. I also had a company reach out to me a month later. I knew that I wanted to go to DATO because they were really into the idea of having a high school intern and they responded pretty quickly . After I had already secured my internship with them, it was time to thank all the other companies for reaching out to me and considering me as an intern and tell them I had already chose another company to work at.
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During this internship I hope to gain a sense of what I would like to do in college and possibly for the rest of my life. I want to gain more knowledge of what you specifically do in marketing and see if this is a job I see myself doing. I also want to contribute to the business environment and use my experience with social media and building my digital portfolio to help improve marketing with DATO. I hope to help the overall business and collaborate with each person and learn what they contribute and if I would be interested in that too. I hope to have helped take some tasks off my mentors hands.
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