My name is Renee Podber
and I am going to be a Junior General Fine Arts major this year. This summer I
completed a 12-week internship for Simon Says. I found the internship through
indeed.com and saw they were looking for interns who are interested in
expanding their marketing and communication skills in a creative way. Simon
Says is a speech pathologist office that specializes in treating Orofacial Myofunctional
Disorders (OMD); but they have also expanded into creating national seminars
that give other speech pathologists tools to treat OMDs.
I worked under the head
of marketing, Julie Doyle. Many of the tasks I was involved in was using my
creative skills and graphic design experience to create advertisements as well
as fliers to catch the attention of clients and other speech pathologists to
join the seminars that were all over the country. I also helped create a new
website for the company that is user friendly as well as clean and crisp. I am
incredibly proud of fliers I had created, knowing they were eye catching and
informational without being overly complicated.
This experience was
great as I developed more skills in communication and marketing, as well as
refining my graphic design skills. Each day I went in was different, as I was assigned
some small tasks and big ones. Overall, I am incredibly satisfied with these new
ideals of marketing myself in my work or whatever endeavors I follow into. I am
satisfied in participating with Simon Says this summer, I will absolutely apply
these skills to my work and in how I brand myself as a creator.
