I'm a big fan of peer mentoring. When it comes to spreading the message about placements, in my experience students are most receptive when hearing it directly from their fellow students, rather than from a guy in a suit. This is a theme that a number of employers have picked up on and involve their current interns when promoting their schemes. Here is a great example of this, with a guest blog from Will, promoting the Ascent Placement Programme. If this sounds good, get applying as the deadline is this weekend!
Hi, I'm Will and I'm currently working as the Advertising & Communications Marketing Intern at Amaya Gaming as part of the Ascent Placement Programme.
I
would hope by now that you are aware that the Ascent Placement gives you the
opportunity to take a fully paid internship at PokerStars and have either
finished or are making the finishing touches to your application. I thought I’d
take this opportunity to tell you a little bit more about the market-leading
poker brand, what we actually do here and what you could be doing next year.
Sound OK?
PokerStars, along with its sister site Full Tilt, are Amaya
Inc. brands which collectively form the largest poker business in the world,
comprising online poker games and tournaments, live poker competitions, branded
live poker rooms and poker programming created for television and online
audiences.
If you don’t know much about poker don’t worry, you’ll pick up
everything you need to know quickly. Just be sure to do a bit of research into
us before you write that cover letter.
You may be thinking, what would I actually be doing? Well,
we have six fantastic roles that you can apply for. There are opportunities to
work in in Brand, Advertising & Campaign Marketing, Social Media,
SEO/Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, TV & Online Programming, and
Corporate Communications. For full information about the programme, the roles
and the application process, please head over to our dedicated website
(designed by us, ‘The Ascenders’) theascentplacement.com
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‘The Ascent Placement’
brand presentation – selling it into the business
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All departments within PokerStars work very closely together
so no matter which you find yourself in you’ll all be working together on world-class
advertising and marketing campaigns that bring the fun and excitement of poker
(and sometimes other verticals) to players around the world. That’s what I find
most exciting about working here: introducing people who don’t play poker to
such an amazing game. Just to put the scale of the business into perspective,
we have a combined total of over 97 million registered players and it’s
continuing to rise. I’m hoping we hit 100 million before I go back to uni.
Since I’ve been here I’ve worked on global ad campaigns
featuring some of the world’s best footballers, developed a sub-brand of
PokerStars, managed social media campaigns and proactively building a business
case for some ideas of my own.
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Ad shoot in Madrid
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Day-to-day it’s pretty great here I must admit. The office
is right next to Piccadilly Circus station and it boasts free fruit, vending
machines, table football, a pool table, a chill out room and there’s even a
Dalek downstairs (cheers Twitter). There have been tons of social events which
all of us here have taken full advantage of. Check out our social pages (links
below) for the full run down on these, but highlights include the summer and Christmas
parties, poker tourneys and recently a talk by NASA’s chief scientist about the
mission to Mars.
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The Ascenders class of
2015
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I had better go now as I need to prepare for my trip to
Dublin in a few weeks for the EuropeanPoker Tour (a huge live poker festival) where I will be gathering as much
content as I can get my hands on. Just before I go I’d like to remind you all
that the deadline for applications in 23:59 on the 31st January 2016
so get to it!
Thanks for reading and good luck with your placement search! Why not connect with us on the following platforms
By the way, if you’re a grad and fancy seeing where in
PokerStars you could fit be sure to visit our opportunities page here: https://www.pokerstars.com/about/careers/
