Believe it or not, I started thinking about retirement right after I graduated college. No, I didn’t win the lottery or have a big entrepreneurial success. I started investing and contributing to my IRA. It was a good way to stay productive and get ready to be an adult. If you start thinking about retirement in your early or mid 20s, you’re likely going to be in great shape 40 years down the line. Unfortunately, many people don’t plan that far ahead, so they end up needing help much later in life—and often they don’t have access to good advice once they realize that they need it. Financial Engines is trying to change that. It all started with Bill Sharpe, who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. By combining “Bill’s pioneering investment methodology with proprietary technology” Fiancial Engines is able “to provide all investors with cost-effective, expert advice and management—the kind previously available only to the world’s largest institutional investors.” Financial Engines, which is based in Palo Alto, CA with offices in Boston, MA and Phoenix, AZ, partners with both retirement plan providers and large employers to offer their services and change the way that people get retirement help.

Start Your Financial Engines

In doing my research on Financial Engines, I came across an excellent writeup about the company on Seeking Alpha. It goes into a ton of detail about the business, and it’s definitely worth a read. The general gist of it is that Financial Engines automates a lot of retirement advising through software as a service. Face to face advising often isn’t economical, and sometimes it’s not even better than what a computer can spit out. Financial Engines took the brilliance of Bill Sharpe, and put it into their computer models—so Financial Engines clients really do get the best. If you’re intrigued by what Financial Engines is doing, you should check out their Careers page. They have a number of internships listed in their job postings including positions in Software Engineering, Product Management, Business Analysis, and Service Delivery. There’s no word on whether the positions are paid or not.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• FinancialEngines.com
• Jobs at Financial Engines
• About Financial Engines
• Financial Engines’ History
• Leadership at Financial Engines
• Financial Engines News

What have you heard about Financial Engines?

We’re in an election year, and it’s a key one (is it ever not?). If you’re not already sick of political ads, you better get ready to be bombarded with misinformation. Politicians spend a huge amount of money trying to convince you that they’ll fix all of our society’s problems (and that their opponents are evil and hate children—seriously I saw an ad in Illinois that said that), yet the facts about every politician are out there and easy to find. A big part of the reason why is Project Vote Smart, a non-profit organization based on a ranch in Philipsburg, Montana. According to Wikipedia Project Vote Smart was founded in 1992 by “40 national leaders, including Barry Goldwater, John McCain, former U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.” PVS calls itself “The Voter’s Self-Defense System,” as it operates with the goal of collecting and distributing information about U.S. political candidates in a non-partisan way. They want voters to be able to make informed decisions based on personal values, regardless of what they may be, not political hyperbole.

Are You Smart Enough?

It’s hard to believe that an organization started by politicians is actually non-political, but it is. PVS only takes money from individual contributors and non-political foundations, and they only allow board members to join if they join with a political opposite. Project Vote Smart is all about preserving Democracy and ensuring that we the people are well enough informed to vote in a way that actually aligns with our beliefs. The best way to learn more about PVS is to watch the video embedded below. It’s a little long, and looks a bit outdated, but the content will tell you all of the basic information that you need to know about the organization.

If you like what you saw in the video, then you should check out internships at Project Vote Smart. The positions are unpaid, but you’ll get to live on their Montana ranch/research center, which is surrounded by wilderness, elk, moose, and lots of outdoor opportunities. There are also internship opportunities in their Tuscon, AZ office. They provide a ton of information on their Internships page, so you can get all of the details there.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• VoteSmart.org
• Internships at Project Vote Smart
• About Project Vote Smart
• Project Vote Smart’s History

Not many of the companies on Fast Company’s list of “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies” are non-profit, and not many non-profits generate over $1 billion in annual revenue, but MITRE fits both criteria. I know that many of you want to see fewer technical internships, but I’ve also noticed that most of the non-profit internships that we feature on weekends aren’t very technical. MITRE, which has headquarters in Bedford, MA and McLean, VA offers an exception. They are an “organization chartered to work in the public interest” through “expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization.” They do this work through “four Federally Funded Research and Development Centers,” with one focused on the Department of Defense, one on the Federal Aviation Administration, one on the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, and one for the Department of Homeland Security.

Give MITRE a Try

MITRE serves each of these groups by providing “a unique combination of broad operational knowledge and in-depth technical skills” while also developing new technology that can be transferred when appropriate. What is really astonishing about MITRE is its size. They have over 7,000 employees, and more than 65% of them hold an advanced degree. The organization is a hotbed for technical knowhow and creativity, and it’s great to know that they have thousands of talented people working to ensure the future of our country. On that note MITRE is constantly looking to hire smart people for both technical and non-technical positions. They have a very strong college recruiting program, which you can find out about here. There are nearly 400 positions posted right now on MITRE’s Jobs site, so browsing through everything may be a little tough. However, they do let you search for Co-ops, Non-technical Internships, and Technical Internships (and 42 of the positions fall into one of these categories). If you have any questions, you can reach out to Jessica Yu using MITRE’s employee directory or you can use the chat box on the Student Opportunities page during working hours. I’m not 100% sure, but I think all of MITRE’s internship offerings are paid

Job/Internship categories at MITRE include: Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence, Business Analysis & Administration, Communications, Computer Operations, Contracts/Subcontracts, Database Technology Software, Defense & Space Systems, Desktop Support, Digital/Microprocessor Hardware, Domain Operation Analyst, Economics/Business, Electromagnetic & Nuclear Effects, Facilities Engineering, Financial Analysis, General Accounting, General Systems Engineer, Graphics, Human Resources Generalist, Human Factors Engineer, Industrial Security, Information Security, Information Systems Engineer, Integrated Electronics, Legal, Multi-Disciplinary Systems Development, Networking & Distributed Systems, Physical Security, Procurement, Sensor Systems, Signal Processing Engineer, Software Applications Development & Software Systems, Special Security, System Administrator, Technical Project Support, Telecommunications Specialist, and Treasury & Risk Management. There are also a variety of locations beyond MITRE’s headquarters, so you’ll have plenty of options.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• MITRE.org
• Careers at MITRE
• Student Opportunities at MITRE
• About MITRE
• Leadership at MITRE
• MITRE’s Sponsors and Clients
• MITRE History
• MITRE’s Work

What do you know about MITRE?

I’ve never found a use for start pages and portals. Until Safari came out with a feature that allowed me to view a dozen of my most visited sties at a glance, I just set a blank page as my home page. However, I realize that many people have very different web browsing habits, and a lot of people find start pages really useful. One company that is trying to update the start page by making it social is ZooLoo. They’re a Phoenix, AZ based startup that, despite an unfortunate name that sounds like a bathroom at a wildlife park, is trying to own the market for customizable start pages. They’re competing with behemoths like Google and Facebook to be your home page, but they do have an advantage in that they’re laser focused on start pages and only start pages. They think if they can own that market, they can deliver lots of relevant advertising and make lots of money.

Do You ZooLoo?

One of the things that makes ZooLoo stand out is that you can buy your own domain name to host your start page. That means that your ZooLoo page can be more than just your home page—it can also be an online résumé, portfolio, or other type of personal website. This requires a paid upgrade, which shows that ZooLoo isn’t putting all of its eggs in the advertising basket. I guess it’s working, because ZooLoo seems to be growing pretty quickly. They’re up to 24 employees, and according to this blog post, they’re looking to add some interns. In fact, they’re running a contest to select their newest PR/Marketing/Social Media Interns. Don’t worry, the prize is actually good (the internship is paid). The instructions for entering the contest are:

1. Create a video no longer than two minutes creatively explaining why you are the best candidate for the position. (If you want an idea of what we’re looking for, go here to view the top 7 from our last intern contest, and go here to see who received the position.) Post your videos to this blog post.
2. Build a Web site on ZooLoo to show us why you are the most qualified and that you have a good understanding of how the site works (don’t worry, it’s actually really easy!). Post your website’s URL to this post with your video and your contact info.
3. Email your resume to aaron@zooloo.com
4. All submissions are due by Monday, October 26. We will be conducting interviews that week.

It looks like fun, and if you have any questions you can contact aaron@zooloo.com. The internships will start in November and run for 3-6 months. They’re going to accommodate for Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, so don’t worry about that.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• ZooLoo.com
• Internships at ZooLoo
• About ZooLoo
• What Is ZooLoo?
• Why ZooLoo?
• ZooLoo in the News
• ZooLoo FAQs
• JeffHerzog.com (ZooLoo CEO’s ZooLoo Page)

Will you create a ZooLoo page?

One essential part of launching your career that is rarely mentioned is working out. You won’t often read about it career advice books or have your college’s career counselor advise you to get a gym membership, but I think that it’s extremely important. The self-discipline required to stay in good shape is the same that is required to succeed in an internship. Beyond that, the gym provides a good break from work and can even be a decent place to do some networking. But what if you’re a professional athlete? Going to the gym has a completely different meaning in relation to your career—it’s absolutely essential. The problem is that most gyms don’t cater to athletes. They cater to people who are trying to lose a few pounds, socialize, or watch tv while “working out.” Athletes’ Performance is a different kind of gym. They aim “to provide the finest methods, specialists and facilities seamlessly integrated to efficiently and ethically enhance [their] athletes’ performance.”

How Will You Perform?

Athletes’ Performance has taken a scientific approach to training that is built on three core principles: improving performance, decreasing injury potential, and motivating through education. They currently have locations in Phoenix, AZ; Gulf Breeze, FL; and Carson, CA with an extremely ambitious plan to “roll out 125 sites over the next five years in 25 key metropolitan areas.” Obviously that kind of growth can’t happen while only catering to pro athletes, but I’ll bet there are plenty of non-professionals who would pay a significant premium to work out and train like they’re pros. Niche gyms are a growing market, and Athletes’ Performance seems to be well positioned to take advantage of the fact that not everyone is happy with an elliptical machine and some free weights. If you’re intrigued, you should check out internships at Athletes’ Performance. They offer two main types of unpaid internships: Performance Consultant and Performance Nutritionist. These are offered in the summer, fall, and spring at each of their locations. Additionally they have a Fall Sales/Marketing Internship posted in Santa Monica, CA. You can apply for any of these positions online, but make sure that you have a strong background in athletics.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• AthletesPerformance.com
• Internships at Athletes’ Performance
• About Athletes’ Performance
• Athletes’ Performance’s History
• Athletes’ Performance’s Team
• Athletes’ Performance’s FAQ

Would you train at a gym like Athletes’ Performance?

I’m still on my Inc. 5000 kick, and today we’re looking at a company whose name immediately caught my eye. They’re called College Hunks Hauling Junk, and that’s exactly what they are. Omar Soliman wanted to make some money during the summer, so he borrowed his mom’s cargo van to start hauling away people’s junk. He then entered his business plan in the Rothschild Entrepreneurship Competition and won the $10,000 first prize. He realized that he had a business that he could grow, and now College Hunks Hauling Junk is doing $2.9 million in revenue. Guess that’s why Omar and his co-founder Nick were named (also by Inc.) as Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30. College Hunks Hauling Junk is headquartered in Tampa, FL, but through expansion and franchising they now operate in Anne Arundel, MD; Baltimore/Howard County, MD; Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, OH; Dallas, TX; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; Indianapolis, IN; Little Rock, AR; Los Angeles, CA; Louisville, KY; Orange County, CA; Orlando, FL; Phoenix, AZ; Raleigh-Durham, NC; Richmond, VA; San Francisco/San Jose, CA; Tampa Bay, FL; and Washington, DC Metro.

Are You Hunky Enough?

College Hunks Hauling Junk certainly has a provocative name, but that’s part of their success. Finding someone to haul away your junk isn’t that hard, but it’s really easy to go with the brand you recognize. College Hunks Hauling Junk is all about grabbing attention so that they’re the company that you choose when you need to get rid of some junk. It doesn’t hurt that they can call themselves green, as they recycle 60% of the junk that they collect. Now, College Hunks Hauling Junk obviously has plenty of jobs available. If you want to get in the business of hauling junk to pay your way through college, they can help, but they’re also a growing company with growing needs. They have a bunch of corporate job postings that consist solely of titles, and this includes a Marketing Intern position. You can apply here, although I don’t know if the position is paid or not.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• 1800JunkUSA.com
• Internships at College Hunks Hauling Junk
• About College Hunks Hauling Junk
• College Hunks Hauling Junk’s Blog
• Junk Hunk History
• College Hunks Hauling Junk’s Fact Sheet

Have you used College Hunks Hauling Junk?

At some point during my Junior year in college (by the way I’m back at Cornell for the weekend), I got the bright idea that I could wear slippers as shoes. These weren’t flimsy slippers, these were sturdy leather ones with shearling lining. They were made by Orvis (where I interned and had an awesome 50% employee discount), and they were great. I loved sitting in class knowing that my feet were more comfortable than everybody else’s. Then I came back from Thanksgiving break. I was admiring the Christmas lights that my roommates had adorned our otherwise aesthetically unpleasing house with, and I slipped. See, my slippers had flat rubber soles. My feet came out from under me as I fell down a muddy slope. My right hand came down hard on the sidewalk, and I had a broken wrist. I gave up wearing slippers for a while, but when my Mom bought me a pair of UGG slippers with proper soles, I reverted. Now UGG slippers are my go to shoes during the winter, and I’m a huge fan of Deckers Outdoor Corporation. They’re the company behind UGG, Simple, Teva (is it Tee-va or Tevv-a?), Tsubo, and Deckers, and they’re headquartered in Goleta, CA with a location in Flagstaff, AZ as well.

Hit the Deckers

I had no idea until today that Outside Magazine has a Best Places to Work list. Now I know about it, and I know that Deckers Outdoor Corporation is on the list (ranked 7th). While Deckers’ Careers page doesn’t say much more than generic stuff like “We are looking for energetic, hard working, success oriented individuals to join our dynamic team” and “All candidates must be team players, have high energy, good organization and excellent communication skills,” it’s pretty obvious that Deckers has a unique employment brand that is well aligned with their product brands. They also fail to mention their internship program on their website. Luckily, you have me to keep digging for you. I was able to find a page from Northern Arizona University that lists Fall internships with Deckers. The opportunities are all at the Flagstaff, AZ location and they include: Web Data Analysis Intern, Web Design Intern, Affiliate Marketing Intern, Email Marketing Intern, and Search Marketing Intern. All of the positions are unpaid, and you can find more in-depth descriptions here. You can apply by sending a cover letter and résumé to hr@deckers.com with the internship title in the subject line. If you want information on other internships at their Goleta, CA location, I’d recommend doing some Googling or reaching out to them and asking. I can’t seem to find any other internships posted.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• Deckers.com
• Careers at Deckers
• About Deckers Outdoor Corporation
• Deckers’ Strategy
• Management at Deckers
• Deckers on Corporate Social Responsibility
• Deckers Outdoor Corporation’s Investor Relations Page

Although people mostly associate St. Patrick’s Day with drinking (it’s really supposed to be a feast), I like to think of it in terms of searching for something good. Just think – there’s the four leaf clover, and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and… ok that’s it. Well, you can also use St. Patrick’s Day as motivation for your internship search. That’s why we’re looking at Phoenix, AZ based Shamrock Foods today. They not only fit in with the theme of the day, but they also fit in perfectly with the article that we published yesterday on anticipating internship postings. So, let’s feast on Shamrock Foods and see if they have any internship opportunities.

Some Luck for Your Internship Search

If your internship search consists of waking up at noon and scanning internship postings while you eat your Lucky Charms in your underwear, then you’re doing it wrong. You need to be anticipating where the internships are going to be. To do that, you need to understand what companies do and how their needs might come up. Shamrock Foods is a family-owned company that has specialized in the manufacturing and distribution of quality food and food-related products since 1922. They have two main divisions – Shamrock Food Service and Shamrock Farms. The former is the 7th largest food distributor in the US, while the latter is the largest dairy in the Southwest. That’s about all of the information that their website provides, and there’s nothing on internships, but there is an old internship posting for a Marketing Intern on Simply Hired. Now go read our article on anticipating internship postings and put this information to use to land a St. Paddy’s Day related internship.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• ShamrockFoods.com
• Careers at Shamrock Foods
• ShamrockFoodService.com
• ShamrockFarms.net

How are you celebrating St. Patrick’s Day?

I love Apple products, and I have for almost 20 years. My first computer was an Apple IIe, and now One Day, One Internship, One Day, One Job, and Found Your Career are all run from a MacBook Pro and an iPhone (ok, we have a server that is not a Mac). I’m constantly amazed by the innovation that comes out of Apple, and I’m probably unreasonable about how much I prefer Apple products. I mean, I sit in front of my computer and watch live blog updates whenever they’re making product announcements. In my mind there’s no cooler company than Apple, so it’s surprising that it took me this long to feature their internships.

iInternships

I don’t think that I need to say any more about Apple. If you don’t know all about who they are, you’re probably not going to be able to land an internship with them. They have 26 internships posted right now, and I have heard word they’re do some campus recruiting right now (although their campus events calendar only shows last fall’s schedule). Apple’s Internships site is nicely done, and it provides a good amount of information. It’s a little bland looking, but the simplicity makes it really easy to find everything that you’ll need to find, like their Internship listings.

Right now they have openings for interns in AppleCare (Phoenix, AZ and Austin, TX), Applications Product Integration (Santa Clara Valley, CA), Business Analyst (London, UK), Channel Online Sales Training (Paris, France), Education Intern (London, UK), CPU Software Engineer (Santa Clara Valley, CA), Hardware Engineer (Santa Clara Valley, CA), iPod Engineering (Santa Clara Valley, CA), Information Systems & Technology (Santa Clara Valley, CA), Mechanical Engineer (Santa Clara Valley, CA), Software Engineer (Santa Clara Valley, CA), SW Applications (Santa Clara Valley, CA), World Wide Operations (Santa Clara Valley, CA), iPhone Business Planning (London, UK), iPod Accessories Hardware (Santa Clara Valley, CA), Information Systems & Technology CRM (Uxbridge, UK), Information Systems & Technology (Uxbridge, UK), IT Business Analyst (Uxbridge, UK), Location Technologies Software (Santa Clara Valley, CA), OS Engineering (Santa Clara Valley, CA), Praktikant/in (Munich, Germany), Sales Planning (Paris, France), Sales Training Operations (Munich, Germany), Stage Customer Relationship Management (Paris, France), and Stage System Engineer (France). You can find these internships by visiting the postings, and you can apply directly from the descriptions. All Apple Internships are paid and come with some pretty cool benefits and perks. You should also note that some of these internship postings have a date of 2006, but I have a feeling that it’s a mistake and not a sign of neglect.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• Apple.com
• Internships at Apple
• Apple’s Internship Listings
• Apple’s Campus Events Schedule
• Behind the Scenes of an Apple Internship
• Apple’s Intern FAQ
• Apple’s Many RSS Feeds (No Jobs Feed Yet)

What’s your favorite Apple product?

I never thought that moving to Chicago would prolong the baseball season for me. Living in the New York City area gave me 13 straight years of October baseball, and now that I’ve left, both Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium will remain empty for the rest of the fall before they eventually face demolition. It’s lucky for me that I’m now living in a new city that happens to have two teams that are still in it. I get a 14th straight year of local baseball in October! Playoff baseball is by far the most exciting baseball of the year, but it also means that season will soon be over. Those of you who are baseball fans know how long the winter seems when there is only hot stove chatter to keep you entertained while you wait for pitchers and catchers to report to Spring Training. Although it may seem ridiculously early, now is the time to start thinking about your Summer plans if you want to intern with Major League Baseball. It’s pretty obvious that there is a lot of demand for these internships, so you need to make sure that you’re on the ball and beat all of the deadlines.

Take Me Out to an Internship

As far as we can tell, there are 3 types of internships that you can get in Major League Baseball, and, unfortunately, none of them are directly with the league. There are internships with MLB.com, Journalism internships with MLB.com, and internships with specific MLB teams. Here’s a rundown of the three types of internships and how you can apply for them.

MLB.com Internships

MLB.com is part of MLB Advanced Media, which is a separate arm of Major League Baseball. They run all 30 team websites and allegedly have editorial independence from the league. Their focus is entirely on multimedia and production, but they offer quite a variety of internships. You can intern with MLB.com in Finance, Marketing, Club Marketing, E-Commerce, Legal, Technology, Sponsorship, Design, and Public Relations. These internships are located in New York City, are paid $12.50 an hour, and last 8 to 10 weeks. MLB.com is currently recruiting for the Summer of 2009, and you can apply by sending a cover letter and resume to Interns2009@mlb.com.

MLB.com Journalism Internships

The second grouping of internships is also with MLB.com, but they separate it out from their regular internship program. These internships are for “aspiring sportswriters” who want to spend the Summer of ’09 writing about baseball. 33 interns will be selected (one for each team, and three total to cover the Minor Leagues) and will be assigned to “work closely with a site reporter to give visitors to a team’s Web site all the information they need to follow the team from Opening Day to season’s end.” You can state a preference for which Major League city that you’d like to be assigned to, but your chances are much better to be selected if you state no preference. Interns are expected to spend at least 10 weeks in the program, and the pay is $500 per week and housing/transportation is not provided. The application deadline is November 30th, and the application is somewhat complex, so you’ll need the time to get things together.

There will also be a small number of copy editor/producer internships available. The application process is the same.

To apply:

Applicants should submit a resume, 5 to 10 published articles (no columns should be included), a list of references and a 750-word essay on why MLB.com should pick you. Please use the essay as a way of showing your creativity as a writer; in short, it should be more than a simple cover letter.

Please mail all internship applications to:

Bill Hill
Assistant Managing Editor/MLB.com
Attn: Internship Application
14825 N. 97th Place
Scottsdale, AZ 85260

That’s right, you need to mail, not e-mail, your application. If you do have questions about these MLB Journalism internships, you can contact Bill Hill at bill.hill@MLB.com. Make sure that you put the words “Internship Info” in the subject line to get through his spam filter.

Internships with MLB Teams

Finally, you can search for internships with individual MLB teams from a different site. This is where Major League Baseball follows what other major sports leagues do and uses TeamWorkOnline to post their internships. Right now there are listings with the Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and San Diego Padres, but this will probably change over time, as different teams have different hiring schedules. If you’re waiting to hear about internships with a specific team, you can sign up for Internship Notification e-mails or you can subscribe to the MLB Internship RSS Feed. There is an online application process for internships with teams, and it shouldn’t be too difficult to do.

This is all that we can find about interning in Major League Baseball, but we think that there must be some way to intern directly with the league. If anybody has leads on opportunities like these, we’d love to hear from you in the comments section below.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• MLB.com
• Internships with MLB.com
• Journalism Internships with MLB.com
• Internships with MLB Teams
• About Major League Baseball
• About MLB.com
• Major League Baseball’s Wikipedia Entry

Who do you think is going to win the World Series?

Artists and record labels are starting to realize that live music is a great way to stay profitable. Although the digital download business is seeing amazing growth, the idea that people should pay for songs has pretty much gone out the window. If you can fill up a venue with adoring fans (who paid an arm and a leg for tickets) and sell them t-shirts, posters, and whatever else people buy at concerts, you can still make a lot of money. If this trend continues Live Nation should be primed for success, they have the “most live concerts, music venues and festivals in the world and the most comprehensive concert search engine on the web.”

Internships at Live Nation

If you love live music, an internship with Live Nation might be something worth considering. Their website, LiveNation.com, is targeted towards becoming the world’s largest concert search engine, and they also own and operate the House of Blues, “a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine.” It seems that they’re trying to cover all of the bases when it comes to making it easy for fans to see their favorite artists in real life. They make searching for concert tickets simple and they provide in-depth information about artists and venues. Beyond that they also run House of Blues which hosts a ton of live music events.

Live Nation’s Jobs site won’t allow us to link to specific internships, so we’ll tell you which internships they have posted, and you’ll have to use their search function to find them. You’ll have to have choose to list all jobs (don’t only search for internships, they won’t show up), and then scan the listings for the internships. Live Nation is apparently headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, but they’re offering two Fall internships elsewhere. There’s a Sponsorship Internship in Houston, TX and a Permium Seat Sales Internship in Phoenix, AZ. The internships are unpaid and for credit only, and you can apply online on Live Nation’s website. There are also a lot of hourly jobs at House of Blues locations, so if you’re looking for a part-time job instead of an internship, you may want to check those out.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• LiveNation.com
• Jobs and Internships at Live Nation
• About Live Nation
• Live Nation’s Investor Relations Info
• HOB.com
• About House of Blues

How often do you go to see live music?

John James Audubon loved painting birds. His seminal work, Birds of America, was a collection of 435 beautiful life-size prints. To this day, when you hear the name Audubon, you think of birds. Interestingly enough, John James Audubon had no direct involvement with the founding of the National Audubon Society. Audubon’s widow, Lucy, tutored a man named George Bird Grinnell and some of Audubon’s love of birds must have rubbed off, as Grinnell was one of the Audubon Society’s founders. To this day, the Audubon Society persists in its mission “to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity.” The Audubon Society works to achieve this mission through a national network of community-based nature centers and chapters and scientific, educational, and advocacy programs.

These Internships Are for the Birds

The National Audubon Society has a long list of current job and internship openings in a variety of locations across the country. We scanned over them, and identified all of the internships that appear to be available this fall. The Audubon does a great job of describing their internships, so you should get a good sense of the work involved with each.

• Environmental Education Internships: MD
• Environmental Education Internship: CT
• Education/Resource Management Internship: FL
• Environmental Education Internship: OH
• Intern and Volunteer Positions with the Seabird Restoration Program (Project Puffin)
• Internship Opportunities – ME
• Organic Agriculture Internship: OH
• Public Policy Internships – DC
• Resource Management Internship: FL
• Conservation Internship: AZ

We should also warn you that one job listing on the pagesays that the start date is in 2006. We hope that this is a result of a careless copy-paste job, but we have no way of knowing how recently all of these internships were posted (most of them look up to date though). We couldn’t find much information on what it’s like to work for Audubon, but it probably varies widely depending on location. If you’re a birder, and you’re looking for a non-profit Fall internship, figure out which of the above is most appealing and apply! The contact information varies depending on the internship, but you are expected to apply by e-mailing a cover letter and resume. Most of the internships are paid some sort of stipend or hourly wage, although the pay is very modest. A few of the other position listings seem to have no mention of whether they are paid or not.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• Audubon.org
• Internships with the National Audubon Society
• About the National Audubon Society
• Audubon’s Annual Report
• Audubon’s Green Office
• Audubon’s Timeline

What’s your favorite bird? We like birds of prey like hawks, eagles, and falcons.maineorg

I’ve been known to give people a hard time for buying Fiji Water, but then to drink it myself. I drink a lot of water, and Fiji Water is some of the best, but it seems crazy to have water shipped half way around the world when we have some of the world’s best drinking water sitting in our toilets (and coming out of our faucets too). Still, there’s something to be said for enjoying the luxury of sipping water that comes from an artesian well at the edge of a primitive rain forest. If you’re going to drink bottled water, it might as well come from Fiji. It might be as close as you’ll ever get to the place.

Fiji Water Is Green

Not really. It’s crystal clear, but it’s hard not to have hesitations about drinking Fiji Water when you hear on the news that drinking bottled water will cause the end of human life as we know it. Not only is the water in plastic bottles, but its shipped thousands of miles. So why is Fiji Water green? You can find out at FijiGreen.com. Essentially, they’ve taken 4 steps to ensure that their business doesn’t have an adverse environmental impact. They’ve committed to being carbon negative (that’s better than carbon neutral), they are working to save the rainforest, they have reduced their packaging, and they are putting increased resources into recycling. Now that you can drink Fiji Water without a heavy conscious, you can also consider interning for them.

Internships in Fiji?

Yesterday we teased you with the prospect of internships en provence, and today we’re teasing you again. Fiji Water’s internships are in California or Arizona. Nice, but not Fiji. Fiji Water is currently offering 3 undergraduate internships that are presumably for the Fall semester (they were just listed last week). These are Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Intern (Tucson, AZ), Undergraduate Intern (West Los Angeles, CA), Graphic Design Intern. The Undergraduate Intern position has the description of one of Fiji Water’s MBA Internship (there’s also an Environmental MBA Internship), so we’re assuming it’s the same internship, but for an undergrad. It’s essentially a marketing internship with responsibilities in Brand Strategy Development, Consumer Promotion, Packaging Innovation & Development, Point-of-sale Marketing, Channel Management & Distribution, Public Relations, Events Marketing, and Advertising. These internships are unpaid, and you can apply online from the individual job listings.

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• FijiWater.com
• Jobs and Internships at Fiji Water
• About Fiji Water
• Water 101
• Fiji Water FAQs
• FijiGreen.com
• The Fiji Green Blog

Any Fiji Water drinkers out there?

Do you love fashion? Do you enjoy being around beautiful people? Are you trying to date a model? These are all reasons that you might want to intern for Ford Models. Some of these reasons are more legitimate than others, but from what we gather, you need to be really serious about the modeling industry to land an internship with Ford Models. Competition is fierce for the limited spots they have, and finding information on how to land an internship with Ford Models is pretty tough. We’ve done a bunch of research, and we think we’ve got most of the details figured out. So if you’re ready to give up that dream of being a model yourself, then maybe interning at a modeling agency will be what you need to plan your new direction in life.

But I Can’t Turn Left

We almost decided to ignore the internships, and just talk about modeling opportunities. Why? Because we figure that all of One Day, One Internship’s readers are extremely good looking. Then we realized that modeling isn’t just about good looks; you have to be able to turn left. Since we know how hard that is, we figured that we’d tell you about some internship opportunities where you can put your good looks to use without turning left.

Unfortunately, it seems that Ford Models doesn’t make it easy to find information about their internships online. They probably get flooded with applications from people who want to be model / interns (not intern / models), so they don’t even bother promoting the program. That means that we’ve had to piece together what information we can find about Ford Models’ internships from the Google results for “Ford Models Internships.” We do know that they offer internships year round, and accept applications on a rolling basis. We’re guessing that now is probably the perfect time to start applying for Fall internships; however, we can’t be sure what timeframe they typically use for hiring interns.

From what we’ve read, most of Ford’s interns are based in New York City, but each of their offices around the world takes on interns as well. Locations include Miami, FL; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Milwaukee, WI; Chicago, IL; Scottsdale, AZ; Canada (Toronto and Vancouver); Brazil (Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), and France (Paris). Interns typically work in Marketing or Public Relations, although we’ve also heard of Photography Interns at Ford Models. It’s hard to get a sense of what kind of tasks interns at Ford Models usually take on, but we’ll make a guess that the networking opportunities and the name on the resume will be more valuable than the actual work experience, but that’s just a guess.

We can’t be sure which is the best way to apply for internships with Ford Models, but we do know that they accept cover letters and resumes at careers@fordmodels.com. You can also try contacting the individual offices. The contact information for each office can be found by clicking the Location link on Ford Models’ Home page

Links to Help You Begin Your Research

• Ford Models.com (Flash site, can’t link to individual pages)
• FordModels.tv
• Ford Models on YouTube

Want to just become a model? Ford Models takes modeling applications online.