One of the more effective ways that I’ve found to teach online internship search tactics is to use screencasting. I do a number of screencasts in Found Your Career, and they seem to work really well when walking people through how to use sites like Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook for job search. TechSmith is an Okemos, MI based company that is “the world’s #1 provider of screen capture and screen recording software for the individual and professional user.” They’ve been in the business since 1987—which is an insanely long time for a company in their industry, and they’ve actually been doing screen capture for most of that time. I’ve never used any of their products, but I’ve heard from a number of people who rave about Camtasia, TechSmith’s main screen recording software.
Although Michigan got some bad news last night with the Tigers’ loss, you have to like seeing tech companies that are doing their best to revitalize the state’s economy. TechSmith is doing just that. Although they may appear to be a small software company, they actually have about 200 employees and are hiring more. In fact, they even do on campus recruiting at a few select schools. Their internships offerings show a nice mix of technical and non-technical positions. TechSmith currently has paid internships posted in Customer Engagement, Product Management, Software Engineering, and Web Development. They go into a lot of detail about what they’re looking for, so read the internship descriptions carefully. You can apply online; however, if I were applying for an internship at TechSmith, I’d probably find a way to get them to watch a screencast of why they should hire me. That’s just me, though.
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Tags: customer service, engineering, Internships, Michigan, paid, product management, social media, software development, web development
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