{"id":1441,"date":"2009-04-01T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2009\/04\/01\/intern-wert-company-summer-internship\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T22:15:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:15:05","slug":"intern-wert-company-summer-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2009\/04\/01\/intern-wert-company-summer-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERN: Wert &amp; Company Summer internship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; SUMMER INTERNSHIP<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Wert &amp; Company, Inc. is an international recruitment and<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; consulting firm, conducting searches across a range of disciplines<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; and industries, specializing in marketing, strategy, design and<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; innovation&#8230;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Opportunity for outstanding student with a passion for design and<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; visual culture to gain priceless exposure to the design industry.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Well suited to design students who want to hone their<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; understanding of the global design business, and be exposed to a<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; wide variety of professional perspectives&#8230; Act as a budding<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; design critic, keeping abreast of new work and industry<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; intelligence through your interest and growing facility with<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; interaction design, design research,  design [ID, Arch,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Communication] and branding and cultural fashion trends (at least<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; one of these areas should be a personal and professional passion).<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Description:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Interns will be exposed to many aspects of the recruitment<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; process, global design business and creative industries at large<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; including: Design, Fashion, Retail, Interaction Design,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Publishing, Luxury Goods, Technology, Media, Marketing. Duties<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; will include assistance on a variety of projects related to<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; recruiting, marketing, administration, office management and<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; support of internal industry research. Responsibilities include<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; online research, office support, email correspondence, extensive<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; data entry [intensive use of FileMaker Pro to maintain and update<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; a database of candidates]. Support a small tight knit team as well<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; as the Co-founders of Wert &amp; Co.<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Ideal Applicant:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Ideal applicant must be motivated by excellence, have a passion<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; for design culture and possess stamina for a rigorous office<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; environment. Strong verbal and written communication skills<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; required as well as meticulous, independent (inter-dependent) work<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; habits. Our research practice is supported by a customized<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; database, and fluency with related research resources (e.g.,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; extensive Internet research) is a must. This is an excellent<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; opportunity for an individual that enjoys exposure to a variety of<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; award winning, design centric companies, and is driven by an<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; inherent curiosity and willingness to learn. Additionally the<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; ideal candidate will be responsible for administrative coverage,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; constant phone research and general office assistance. Applicant<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; should be able and eager to manage heavy email correspondence with<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; strong writing\/editing capabilities, and the ability to research,<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; analyze, and evaluate design!<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Personal Characteristics:<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Strong work ethic<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Ability to work under deadlines<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Ability to conceptualize instructions and processes<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Facile with Technology<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Ability and desire to contribute positively to office productivity<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; and composition of staff<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Please send your resume, including thoughts on why this position<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; is of interest to you&#8230;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; Submit to &#8220;info@wertco.com&#8221;; include &#8220;Internship&#8221; in the Subject<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; heading<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; 222 Fifth Avenue | Fifth Floor | New York, NY 10001<br \/>\n&gt;&gt; www.wertco.com | Executive Search<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt; SUMMER INTERNSHIP &gt;&gt; Wert &amp; Company, Inc. is an international recruitment and &gt;&gt; consulting firm, conducting searches across a range of disciplines &gt;&gt;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","category-listserv","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}