Internship searching is hard enough on it’s own. When you have to worry about not being able to feed yourself over the summer because you might have to take an unpaid internship, it can become overwhelming. Obviously the best remedy is to find a paid internship, but that’s easier said than done. What you can do to ease your financial fears for the summer is to start paying attention to personal finance (that’s a link to Ramit Sethi’s I Will Teach You To Be Rich, because he’s the go to guy for that kind of stuff). You can also start using Thrive, a website that “brings all your credit card, checking, savings, retirement, and investment accounts into one place so you can easily see what you have, what you owe, and where you can grow.” They’re based out of New York City, and as far as I can tell they’re offering a product that is extremely similar to Mint, which has been on my radar for well over a year now. Still, Thrive appears to have developed a great tool for monitoring your personal finances, and since they’re hiring paid interns, we thought we should take a look at them.
Thrive is a start-up, but they’ve already secured funding and launched a product. Their team is small, but they seem keen on adding fresh talent to help them change the way 20 and 30-somethings manage their money. I’m already on board with the concept, but I have to admit that I’m using Mint (I love the iPhone app!). There’s a lot of competition in this space with Wesabe and Rudder also offering similar services. That means that differentiation and great features are going to be key to winning over users. Thrive’s Team Bios show that they count on interns for some important stuff, so there’s a good chance that you can help Thrive differentiate itself from its competitors if you land an internship with them. They don’t list their internships on their site, but we know that they’re looking for an intern to work directly with their User Interface Engineer. The UI is key to the success of websites like Thrive, so this internship sounds like a big deal. Although we’re not sure if they’re hiring for any other internships, Thrive’s bio page shows that they have interns in Marketing, Outreach, and Writing too. We also would imagine that they’d be pretty eager to get an intern with really strong Software Development skills, but that’s just a hunch. If you’re interested in interning at Thrive, you should send your cover letter and resume to one or both of the e-mail addresses listed on their Jobs page – jobs@justthrive.com and people@justthrive.com. (They probably go to the same place anyway.)
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