Welcome to the course
blog. For the first post, I would like you to simply tell the class about your
internship and provide a little background about yourself. What do you
anticipate doing? Why did you want to do this internship? Is this internship
something you anticipate wanting to do long term, or are you just looking to
get some experience and perhaps a proverbial "foot in the door?" What
are your long term goals? Are you getting paid or not? Do you think interns
should be paid and why? And include anything else you would like.
If someone posts
something you find interesting, please use this forum to converse back and
forth. Be as open, courteous, and honest as possible.
Hello All! I am doing my internship at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) in Orlando. I started on Monday and was not sure what to expect. So far it is going well- there are a total of 8 interns and we are all still learning how the organization works. I anticipate doing tasks to help the sport managers get ready for upcoming tournaments at the ESPN Wide World of Sports, making sure that all teams have submitted the proper paperwork and are eligible to compete. I will be working registration events at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. I am not sure if this is what I want to do long term yet, it’s only my 4th day, but I hope to learn a lot. I feel that having AAU on my resume will help me when it comes to finding a job in the future. Everyone here is very connected in the sports field. I am not getting paid, but I have received plenty of AAU merchandise! I feel that interns should receive something for their time. Usually without interns events cannot go on. I hope everyone else has a wonderful experience!
ReplyDeleteHello everyone my name is Trevor and I’m from Miami, Florida. At age 15 I started running competitively at Belen Jesuit Prep School and got hooked. Throughout my high school career, I was part of 3 cross-country state championship as well as one track and field state title. Our cross-country team was also ranked nationally my senior year. Belen is known throughout the state to breed very fast runners. As an athlete being coached, you see things in a different light and sometimes take your frustrations out with your coach because a workout may be too hard, but in reality he/she is trying to make you a better runner and has the best intentions in mind. I know exactly what it feels like to be coached but never have gotten the opportunity to coach and see the flip side of the coin which is ultimately the reason why I wanted to do this internship. I will be coaching high school runners 5 days per week over the summer in preparation for their season, which starts in September. I’ll be doing anything from helping come up with the training plan, running with the athletes, mixing Gatorade, or timing them on their interval days. I don’t necessarily want to do this long term because I don’t see myself coaching but in reality I don’t know what I’ll end up doing long term. A lot of people start a job and think they will never do it in the future and you end up loving it so I’m keeping my mind open to that. My long-term goals are to hopefully work in the legal department for some big sports team (preferably NFL). I like doing behind the scenes work and don’t have an interest in being the big name that everyone knows. Finally, I’m not getting paid and don’t think interns should be paid for doing “internships” that’s why it’s called that and not called a job. Jobs should be paid, not internships. I look forward to learning about all of your internships and experiences through this virtual class.
ReplyDeleteHey everyone! I am starting my senior year in the Sport Management program here at FSU. I am excited to get some hands on experience this summer with my internship! I am interning at GameTime Travel. I was in one day last week and will be starting full force on Monday. GameTime Travel helps sports teams set up their travel arrangements with hotels. Essentially GameTime is the middle man helping hotels get business and helping teams get the best price for their hotel rooms. At GameTime I will be on the phones constantly dealing with people so this is a great way to sharpen my customer service skills. I will also gain experience with their computer software. I met representatives from GameTime during the Sport Management Conference and interviewed with them shortly after. I am not getting paid, but hopefully this could open up doors for future jobs, whether it is part-time or full-time. In addition to GameTime I also work at the FSU Leach Center, FSU Athletic Ticket Office, and with FSU Housing. All of these experiences are teaching me a lot! I enjoy being well rounded and I feel like the more people I am able to meet the more prepared I will be for the future. Everyone always says networking is everything so I try to get experience and meet people in as many areas as possible. Right now, I really enjoy campus recreation but I am looking forward to all GameTime Travel has to offer.
ReplyDeleteHi. My name is Alyssa I am going to be a junior this fall at FSU. I am from Orlando and am currently staying at home for this internship. I would love to work for an NBA team, maybe an agent or somewhere in their PR department. I love basketball and would love to have my career be something with the NBA. I really wanted to do this internship at FOx 35 news because i always had an interest in sports broadcasting or anchoring on ESPN. I still would love to do that stuff. Maybe be the next Erin Andrews. I am getting a lot of experience in this internship for broadcasting or anchoring. I am slowly putting together a package of me going some interviews while I track down the latest sports news. I would like to do this type of work long term but in more of a sports atmosphere. Instead of Fox maybe try and do the same thing at ESPN. My long term goals are to gain form this experience from the different reporters along the 5 and half weeks i am here. I am not getting paid. I do believe interns should get paid because we are there just as long as the employers and we literally follow them around and do the exact same thing. We don't have to be paid the same amount but at least something. Especially if we are driving a long time to get to the office. I am enjoying my time at FOX 35 news and are excited to see what more they have to offer this summer.
ReplyDeleteHey class. I am going into my Senior year here at FSU. I am a Sport Management major with an economics minor. I am a supervisor at the Bobby E. Leach Center and am also part of the SMSA within our Sport Management department. I am from Eustis, Florida which is a small town north of Orlando. I am interning with Tallahassee Parks and Recreation this summer with a focus within the athletics department and special events department. I started last week and will be interning 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. every Tuesday and Thursday. I will also be working events with them such as Cal Ripken youth baseball tournaments and some summer camps. I will also be rotating around to the different departments throughout Tallahassee Parks and Recreation. It is not a paid internship. I hope to get a good grasp of how to run events and how to get your community involved in sports and recreation activities. I do not particularly want a career in this field but I feel I will get very useful knowledge and experience from the internship.I will be doing all kinds of things as I rotate throughout the departments before coming back and being full-time with athletics. Last week I had to call every local elementary, middle, and high school to ask them if they would allow us to bring them fliers for fall sports registration. I got to see how it is to attempt to get the community involved in our programs. I the long run I hope to gain knowledge and experience while building my resume. I have no strong opinion on the payment on interns. If I was working 40 hours a week and doing the same work as a normal worker there I would feel that I should be getting paid. However, they were kind enough to give me the opportunity to get involved in their department and help me out. I am happy to work 8-10 hours a week for free and also learn how to run events. I am interested to see how this internship plays out for me and if I will be looking to work in a department like this after my experience or know I never would want to work in such a field.
ReplyDeleteHello class I am a senior at FSU and I am interning for Suntrust Racing this summer. I have been a professional racecar driver since I was 17 years old and have been around sports car racing my entire life. I chose to intern with Suntrust Racing because of my familiarity with the team and the opportunities down the road. I started the internship in April and plan on working for the team after I finish the internship and graduate in December. Throughout my racing career I have been forced to raise funds and sponsorship dollars to keep my career afloat and because of this I have a lot of experience with the business side of racing. The team has hired me to handle their existing sponsors (such as Suntrust, Toshiba, Starport, etc) and help find new partners down the road. I do most of my work from home in Tallahassee through conference calls and emails, but also fly to all of the races and do occasional meetings with companies around the nation. I plan on using this internship as a learning and training experience with the team and taking that knowledge into a full time position next year. I will not be paid for this internship, however, the flights, hotels, food, and everything else that is involved is covered. Being paid would be nice, however, this internship is much more to me than just a short term pay day, it is what I want to do for the rest of my life. Suntrust Racing races in the Grand-am Rolex Sports Car Series which is owned by NASCAR. My goal is to learn what I can through Suntrust Racing and sports car racing in general and move on to NASCAR down the road
ReplyDeleteHello everyone my name is Megan, I am a senior here at FSU and I am graduating next spring with a major in Sport Management and a minor in Communications. I am doing the Marketing and Promotions internship here in the stadium in Tallahassee. I am also a Sport Club Program Assistant for FSU Campus Recreation and serve as a facility supervisor for the intramural sports. I started my internship this weekend by helping run the marketing table at the FSU Baseball games. Since there are no sports events during the summer it will mainly be office hours. There will be a time when the interns have to go out to local businesses and provide them with the football poster once they come in. I wanted to do this internship because I would like to pursue a career in marketing for a professional team. At the end of the semester I will be offered to stay for another semester in the fall in which as of now I am planning on doing. I wanted to obtain experience since I do not plan on going to graduate school and most jobs out there require experience. Once I get to know the people within the office I can make connections and get to know where they have worked before they came to Tallahassee. This internship is not paid and my long term goals are to someday become a marketing director for either the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Pittsburgh Penguins. I think there are certain internships where the interns should be paid and some where they should not; it depends on the city they are in and what the job description entails. I think the internships that are meant for college graduates should be paid so they can have an income and receive experience at the same time.
ReplyDeleteHey everyone! This summer I will be interning for Nike at their world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. I will be entering my senior year in Sports Management in the fall. I am a student-athlete for FSU and so the summers are the only time of year I am able to work. Although my career plans have always been to become a coach, I applied for this internship because I knew if I was accepted it would be a great opportunity I could not pass up. I feel that this internship could be a real life-changer for me whether it be getting my “foot in the door,” or just exploring my interests. At Nike I will be interning with about 40 other undergraduate students from across the country. Each intern has a different title and mine is Product Management. Although I do not have a detailed job description as of yet, I do know that I will be working hands on with a specific Nike product and doing SWOT analysis’s, wear tests and surveys. I am really excited to have this internship specifically because it will allow me to explore an area of sports management I have never really looked into before this year. I do not know if I would like to do product management long-term or if I will find more interest in another area such as marketing or design. At this point I feel like working for a company like Nike would be a great place to start a full-time job if possible. My long-term goals for this internship will be to get to know as many people as I can and impress the upper management with my work. My internship will be paid, and although that may seem like it takes away the idea of an internship, I am actually working a full 40 hours a week and did have to go through two formal interviews for this position. I believe an internship like this, where the intern works just as much as a normal employee, or has been selected in a competitive application process, should be paid. However, internships that only require a few hours a week should not offer pay. I do not start my internship till June 11th but hope everyone is enjoying theirs so far!
ReplyDeleteHey guys my name is Jonathan and I am a junior at Florida State. My major is Sports Management and plan on minoring in Communication as well. This past spring, I started working with the FSU Athletics Ticket Office and assisting the office with its operations with our baseball team. This led to an internship for this summer where I am now actually working inside the office. I will be answering phones and doing special projects over the summer to help better my knowledge with the system so that I can become an OPS employee for the fall semester. I wanted to do this internship to gain experience in the field of sport and sales. I am not entirely sure if this job is one that I would want to have as a career just yet, but I look forward to gaining experience and maybe wanting to do this kind of job in the long run. In addition, my long term goals would include graduating from FSU, landing a job that I love in sport, and of course raising a family. Currently, this internship is unpaid. It is extremely hard to stay motivated when you work over 20 hours a week and do not get paid a dime! However, I constantly remind myself that I am lucky to get this opportunity and chance to gain such experience. Believe it or not, I understand why interns like me do not get paid because there are people out there who would work for no money just to slap something pretty on a resume. Therefore, if you don't HAVE to pay someone, why would you? In conclusion, I look forward to working this summer and discussing my experiences with our class throughout the semester. Good luck to everyone else with their jobs this summer!
ReplyDeleteHello I am Caroline, a rising senior student-athlete at Florida State University. As a member of the FSU Swimming and Diving team, I have been fortunate to continue my love of swimming to the Division I level. Living with a parent who was a college athlete and state championship high school coach, a brother who plays college basketball, and a Dad who was a Duke grad, I have grown up loving sports. Since the age of seven, I have dreamed of becoming a sports broadcaster. Although born a Cameron Crazy (no worries), I have fully converted to GARNET AND GOLD. Staying in Tallahassee this summer to rehabilitate from a shoulder surgery in preparation for the competition in my senior season, I looked for an internship and decided to apply to ABC Channel 27 HD WTXL news station. Having received an intern position with the sports crew, I have learned to view and film baseball games as a professional rather than just a fan. I anticipate by the end of this internship editing video, being behind the scenes in the control room, reading script, and learning how to be in front of the camera. I sought this position to further my knowledge in this field and to determine if this was the correct life choice for me. This is a summer internship as the fall semester brings swim season with two-a-day practices and weekend meets plus the completion of my sports management degree. I sought the Sports Management degree to build a foundation for my professional knowledge in sports, while providing numerous options for future employment. Although this internship is an unpaid position, the experience and the credit hours towards school and my dreams are priceless. Unfortunately, I lack the skills and experience needed in this position to receive pay; I am truly a rookie in the media field. I am excited for each week to come with new knowledge of this field to help me decide what course of action to pursue after graduation whether another internship, graduate school in media, or employment in this field or another one.☺
ReplyDeleteMy internship was secured by way of networking. This past December I attended the Major League Baseball (MLB) winter meetings in Dallas. I met the director of Prospect Wire, a high school scouting network service. I also met the tournament director for the showcases and tournaments they hold. I spent twenty-one years in the Navy and thought it was about time to go back to school to earn a degree in something I am passionate about and enjoy. Really, I just wanted to put something on my résumé and not have the education section blank or just high school information. I anticipate scouting baseball games and writing repots on players. Travel will include the Carolinas and North Georgia. I wanted to complete this internship to build a good network base in the Carolinas. I plan on moving to the Raleigh area in the near future. This internship is not want I want to do long-term. I foresee myself working in a Major League front office in scouting or player development. This internship along with my other internships will give me some experience required to get the preverbal “foot in the door.” This internship is unpaid and no expense or travel cost will be received. All expenses will be out of pocket. As far as interns getting paid or not, it all depends on the company. The experience an intern receives should be sufficient. Oh, did I forget to mention that you get three credit hours for your internship. But wait minute, you pay for the course, so if you do not get paid you are actually paying to work for nothing. Joking aside, the experience you receive is more than valuable. Make sure to learn as much as possible and ask questions. Who knows, maybe you will do an outstanding job during your internship and be hired by the same company in the near future.
ReplyDeleteHey guys! I am doing my internship at 180 communications in Tallahassee. I started it on Monday, March.7. I really didn’t know what to expect and it was kind of scary because 180 is a PR firm and I know nothing about PR. My first day there, my boss hit me with a million tasks and amongst them was learning how to use social media such as Mymediainfo, Hootsuite, pinterest, among others. Usually I catch on to stuff pretty quickly but I couldn’t understand these programs until recently. I can’t see myself here long term, I graduate soon, and I’m too much of a fan of change to just remain stagnant. The internship is paid, they provide a stipend at the time of completion. I think any intern that is not a senior should be unpaid because the experience is payment enough.
ReplyDeleteA few things about me:
I am a senior sports management major at Florida State University. After graduating with a bachelors degree, I plan to attend law school for sport and entertainment law.
Fun Fact:
This summer I will be wed to the LSAT book.
Hello everyone, I am a Junior at Florida State and participating in an internship at Ocoee High School in Orlando, FL. For this internship, I am assisting the head basketball coach with summer workouts for the team. During my internship, I will basically be doing anything he asks of me. This could be refilling water bottles, participating in scrimmages and even coach the team a little bit. My plan in life is to become a successful college basketball coach. I am pretty sure I would like to coach at the small college level and hopefully by doing this internship it will allow me to gain knowledge in the field I would love to be apart of some day. The coach I am helping out was my high school coach for a year and a friend I have continually stayed in contact with. This will not only allow me to gain experience, but also continue to network, which we all know is the key to any job today. I will not be getting paid at this internship nor do I think interns should get paid. The payment you get is networking, experience and basically a try-out for the job. The only reason I feel we should get some compensation is because it is next to impossible to find a job for a month in Orlando when I am returning to Tallahassee in July for my job there. Nobody will hire somebody who can only work certain days and will only be part time help. I am excited for this internship and I hope to gain experience and knowledge this entire summer.
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