Behind the Scenes: Bertelsmann HR Services Internship Blog
Meet our Interns at Bertelsmann HR Services
HR Services at Bertelsmann has put together our list of interns and asked them to blog about their experiences working for a recruiting services department at a major media company.
Our interns work on many projects that are connected to the daily functions of our business units in the book publishing, music publishing, TV production, online and service units.
This is a great opportunity to hear first hand what its like to work across Bertelsmann from the people who are in the internships!
Meeting Random House
This week has been a lot of fun. I've been working on creating a new title sequence for Aravato systems and took some great footage last week of their impressive mid-town building on a beautiful spring day. Today I interviewed two Random House employees. One works in design, the other in editing. It was really interesting to hear about what drives them to do the work they do and what it is exactly that they do for Random House. There are lots of videos to come. Back to editing! - Rachel
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Project
Yesterday afternoon and today i worked on my first own large project: Creating a case study competition to find new employees for Bertelsmann for positions hard to fill. It's really interesting and I'll have a lot to do the next days.
I'll write more tomorrow!
See ya!
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Intern Perks
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Napoleon Dynamite
Rachel
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Review of the last few days
Today I'm at Bertelsmann for one week and I like it here so far. The people working here are very nice and it's fun to work with them. My tasks were mostly interesting and I learnd a lot about Bertelsmann.
Yesterday it was Derek"s last day and today I have to sit alone in my cube creating a web banner for Sony BMG. I hope to get a new cube-partner so that I have someone to talk to for improving my English.
The last weekend it was really great weather, I walked through the Central Parc, was shopping and my flatmate had shown me some cool clubs,like the 1 Oak, the Annex or the Hiro Ballroom. I had a lot of fun as you can imagine.
This afternoon Ashley will take some pictures of us, so that you can see who writes these blogs.
See you soon!
*Nadine*
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See u after the weekend!
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Hi everyone,
As you can see it’s an exciting time for interns here at Bertelsmann. We have two new interns and new projects to work on. Today I'm working on finishing up a video for one of the employees who does Online Marketing for Bantam Dell. The challenge right now is developing the right compression settings for good quality video while not creating a huge file size.
I'm happy to say that two of the videos that I've been working on are now available online. Check them out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5r3sy3AHqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxaQc8eV2qU
- Rachel
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Life of a German intern
Hi,
I’m Nadine , I’m a German intern at Bertelsmann in New York since April, 1st. I’m 22 years old and studying business administration with marketing and psychology as my majors at the University of Marburg. Marburg is what you would call a typical German town: a beautiful castle upon a hill surrounded by wood and a lot of small old timbered houses. After two and a half years of studies, I decided to do an internship in New York to get to know a different culture and a complete different and much bigger city, to see the practical aspects of my studies and of course to improve my English skills, which are very important for a German’s future business life.
Today it’s my third day at Bertelsmann Recruiting Services. The last 2 days I spent with going through the different Bertelsmann group’s career sites to get used to what my department does and what’s the company’s philosophy.
Today, I’ll start a short presentation about Web2.0 and its chances and risks for Bertelsmann and will figure out, which German Top 100 websites would be suited for Bertelsmann’s career ads.
I'll write more these days.
See you soon...
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Production Time
Today begins a two week period of interviews with various employees under the Bertelsmann umbrella. Today I interviewed Brian Horgan from Arvato services and had a great conversation about what he does, why he loves his job, and his current projects (which include working on the new Reebok website). Next week come interviews with the 4 members of Bertelsmann Recruiting Services New York, the department I am interning with.
I find these interviews to be straightforward, but very detail oriented. There are so many points of possible issues. In fact, today, I had a number of technical issues with the great new lavalier microphone we just purchased. I tested it yesterday to ensure I would be set for audio for today's interview. But, as I sat down to meet with Brian, I could not get the mic to work and in that circumstance, there's no time to fix an issue that is not completely necessary. The movies must go on... I'm hoping to get the mic fixed before next Wednesday and more interviews.
Today was also a highlight because I took part in my first conference call. This may not sound particularly interesting or important. But it felt empowering to be including in a discussion with our colleagues in Germany and to take part in discussing some of the technical concerns we've had with launching a video compatible web-site. It’s great to have opportunities, even small ones, to feel that my opinions are valued and that I play a role in the larger success of my colleagues and Bertelsmann.
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every student's dream: spring break
This is my last day before I have a glorious vacation form school, internship, and my own desires to over-achieve. I am looking forward to sleeping in, running some errands, and playing with my niece (who is due next week!). I was able to wrap up most of the loose ends on video projects before break. However, the office is still buzzing as we continue to work towards a big web launch this Monday.
Last night as I was trying to relax and go to sleep, I found myself thinking about the many projects I'm juggling right now: school projects, independent films that I'm developing, and the online videos that I'm creating for Bertelsmann. My thoughts continually returned to the phrases and images that I was debating on including in or cutting from the teaser video I wrote about in the last entry. When I came to work this morning, I'd worked out the images and audio, almost like a puzzle, and the editing work became very fluid.
When I return fully rested and energized, I'll be working on editing some employee video testimonials for Random House, and am setting dates to shoot video footage for another company under the Bertelsmann umbrella. Watch out!
Rachel
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