Throughout college I went back and forth between being a devoted gym goer and a lazy bum. Some years I was good, and some years I was bad. After I graduated I committed to regular exercise, and it was the one constant that kept me going through a frustrating job search. I usually try to join a relatively expensive gym, but not for the obvious reason. I don’t care about all of the frivolities. I just know that if I’m paying $10 a month for a gym, I’m a lot less likely to go – I need to feel invested. With expensive gyms come lots of people in expensive, designer workout outfits. That’s where I learned about lululemon athletica, a Vancouver, British Columbia based manufacturer and retailer of “yoga-inspired athletic apparel.” Everyone at my gym is wearing lululemon, and the retail stores around here are packed, so it’s no big surprise that they’re hiring a lot of people now. Most of their jobs are in retail (which is an alternative to a Summer internship), but they have one internship that looks awesome.
I didn’t realize how big lululemon athletica is until I started doing some research. They’re publicly traded on NASDAQ (although their stock has tumbled big time over the past year), and they have 260 jobs (many with multiple openings) posted on their Careers site right now. Most of the jobs are based out of lululemon athletica’s retail stores and fall under three titles – Educator, Community Leader, and Key Leader. These are certainly worth looking at if you need to take an unpaid internship or want to take a retail job, but what really caught my eye was the internship that they’re offering in Raw Materials. It sounds like a dream internship for someone who is interested in athletic apparel. The internship is unpaid, located in Vancouver, BC, and requires a 3 month commitment. It’s the only internship that we’ve been able to find with lululemon athletica, but maybe if you inquire you can find out about other opportunities. You can apply online directly from the internship posting, and I’m unsure of their ability accept applicants from the US, so you’ll have to look into it.
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