NE Creative

Now Hiring: Jacht Club - Summer/Fall Positions

Jacht Club, the University of Nebraska’s first student advertising agency, is currently seeking passionate, dedicated and talented students from across campus for summer and fall 2012. The agency, an incubator for cross-campus collaborations, seeks students from any major who have the skills to contribute to this start-up business.

The students of Jacht meet three times a week in their office, located in Lincoln’s Haymarket. The agency will be looking for students with expertise in advertising disciplines such as: account management, creative and graphic design, web design, copywriting, social media and public relations. Jacht is also seeking student experience in art, film, business management, computer science and finance. Under the direction of Professors Amy Struthers and Chuck Piper, Jacht serves as a three credit hour course elective at UNL.

Application forms are available online at thejachtclub.com beginning February 13. The deadline to apply is March 1. Find more information by following Jacht Club on Facebook, and on Twitter, @Jacht_Club.

Jacht began in the fall 2010 as UNL’s first student advertising agency. Our passion for experimentation with social media, digital production, mobile media and other emerging technologies generates our unique student “ad lab” experience that yields professional and engaging strategies. Jacht offers clients professional solutions to communications issues while allowing students to learn, explore, analyze and test fresh ideas within the constantly evolving advertising industry.

Jelecos Launches Technology Internship Program

Jelecos aims to develop entry level local talent for recent increase in demand

Jelecos is pleased to announce the development of an internshipprogram across all departments of the technology services and consulting firm.

Rapid growth has allowed the company to offer multiple paid internship positions for hire.

With a primary objective of aiding in the development of local technology talent, Jelecos has partnered with local universities and the State of Nebraska’s Intern NE program to offer a multitude of internshippositions to college students. Entry level candidates in development, design, engineering, and projectmanagement hungry to gain skills and experience to launch their career will find an exciting opportunity at the technology firm.

the minnow Project is Looking for a Hospitality Industry Intern

If you have a few skills from your classes, interested in finding out more on how the hospitality industry advertises and have mastered living on a ramen noodle budget, then you may be the right fit for our specialty internship program beginning fall semester. 

You will develop professional experience in website management, online and ecommerce marketing along with: 

• Internet Research
• Website Auditing
• Project Management
• Communications Assistance
• Campaign Tracking
• Social Media

So if you are a student pursuing a marketing, ecommerce or hotel management degree and feel someone can vouch for your good written and verbal communication, then we would like to meet you.  Email your resume to our VPO, Tracy Munoz, at tmunoz@minnowproject.com. 

 

Swanson Russell Fall 2011 Creative Internship – Lincoln

Are you really good at getting coffee for people? Great. Grab some for yourself and get to work. Our interns aren’t glorified personal assistants, they’re members of the team.

The Job

Ultimately, we’re looking for creative minds who can think conceptually. You’ll be charged with coming up with new ideas, every day. Then – depending on where your particular strengths lie – we’ll center your internship around copy or design work. You’ll work on actual clients with actual account teams, and learn how an actual agency works. You’ll be supervised by our Creative Directors. You will not be asked to do any heavy lifting, unless the shuffleboard table needs a readjustment. But more than anything, you’ll learn how great creative work is done – and practice doing it yourself.

Here’s your first lesson: people love bullet points.

• Paid internship for the fall 2011 semester
• Must be a junior or senior
• 15-20 hours/week

Us

If you’re looking for an agency where CD’s intimidate you out of a career in advertising by throwing your book out the window, then look elsewhere. We’re far too busy for that. We’d rather just work with you to create better work than berate you. We take what we do seriously, but we prefer to teach and encourage you. It’s like The Apprentice, if it were hosted by Danny Tanner.

You

What are we looking for from an intern? You tell us. Why do you want to work here? What are you bringing to the table? What do you want to get out of this? Why do you like advertising? Do you like advertising? All those things. Tell us what you think we need to know. And hey, it’s a creative internship. So… you know… do creative stuff.

How to Apply

To apply, send a cover letter and samples of your best work to hr@swansonrussell.com or drop them off at Swanson Russell, 1222 P Street, Lincoln, NE, 68508.

 

SKAR Advertising Summer Internships

You spent all school year putting off sleep to study for tests in the class you couldn't stay awake in. And for what? So you could pour drinks for rich guys on the golf course this summer? Put to use the skills you stayed up all night gaining - and by skills we don't mean the perfect pour from can to cup.

At SKAR Advertising, we're looking for summer interns for the following positions:
- Account Service
- Copywriter
- Graphic Designer
- Media Buyer
- Social Media Planner

For more information and to apply, go to www.skar.com/internships.

Some Design Lessons for the Back to School Kids

If you haven't heard about it, Fear Less Q+A, is a Live, online show hosted by Alex Bogusky. The hosts and topics are usually advertising and design focused but at time he also speaks on his other passion, health and food. Here are two great videos that have great insight and lessons for all students (and professionals since we are always learning and students of design/advertising).

The first video is Alex interviewing his father, Bill Bogusky of The Brother Bogusky fame. Alex and his father discuss design and crowd scourcing.

 

The second is an interview of Tiffany Kossel, a Group Creative Director at CP+B. In the episode Alex and Tiffany talk about portfolios.

Michael Bierut on Clients

This has been circulating the interwebs for a couple days, but it's so vital that I thought it should be posted here as well. Michael Bierut, star design partner at Pentagram, spoke at the January get-together of CreativeMornings, a New York presentation series. Anyways, what he covers applies to each and every one of us. Some very insightful things to keep in mind here, such as when he talks about little kinds of courage that make a huge difference. Courage to possibly talk clients out of work they don't need. Courage to send them updates on work after it's been approved, if you think it works better. Sometimes counter-intuitive, often self-effacing, and always honest -- this is worth the time to watch it.

Just maybe don't do it on your clients' time.

More Stuff Happening in Nebraska

Hey-o, it's Lincoln reporting in. In addition to the Addy awards show and Meet the Pros, we've got an announcement about another event, an un-conference. Some of you may have made it to BarCamp Omaha back in October. (Hmm, think I still need to get my t-shirt from that, now that I think of it...) Anyways, BarCamp was pretty sweet, gave a chance to meet some interesting people and hear a bunch of new ideas.

Aaaand... now there's one for Lincolnites*. It shall be -- according to the name -- awesome. More details here.

* Certainly not restricted just to Lincolnites. Omahans are welcome. Hell, they might even let in some Iowans!

For the Students: Some DO NOT Advice

Design students here is some advice from the pros on what not to do or want no to have in your portfolio books. 

• Do not to tell whomever you are showing your portfolio to that you "rushed through that one" If you have a piece that is not up to your standards, don't show it.
• No 3D trade show booths.
• Do not blame your instructor, the client, the printer etc. for pieces that need to improve. This is your book. Rework problems or leave those pieces out.
• There is no need for book or magazine covers unless you are planning working at a publisher.  
• Type should never be an afterthought. Treat it as a graphic element and work with it until it is as effective as your other visuals.  
• Design awards should not be placed next to the ‘award-winning’ piece. Listing these on your resume should be enough. Now, if you designed the award, that may be an exception.
• No typos. Proof your work over and over. 

  Remember to prepare you book the interviewee. If it is an designer position at an agency make sure you have at least two ad campaigns which shows that you understand how to take an idea and then translate it across multiple mediums. If the interview is for a design firm make sure you have logos and other print work that you would be doing at that job.

I know students hear this all the time but try to leave "student work" out of your portfolios. What do I mean by that is "student work" usually is work that is carrying on a campaign that already exists. So someone else came up with the idea and executed it and now you are just expanding on it. Sure the work is cool but it doesn't show that you understand on how to create and idea and then execute it. If you want to impress people create your own campaign. Redesign the Pepsi logo and then show what you would do with that new branding. Perhaps even us a local or smaller, lesser known company and put together a marketing campaign for them.

How to Improve Your Resume

I bookmarked this post from Squawkfox called "6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck" that is in a series of very helpful postings on how to write a resume. This post stuck out to me because changing the wording in a resume can make a big difference. The post highlights how to spin six tired resume words/phrases like Responsible For, Experienced, Excellent written communication skills, Team Player, Detail Oriented and Successful into impressive skills.  

For example: 

BAD
Experience programming in PHP.

GOOD
Programmed an online shopping cart for a Fortune 500 company in PHP.