Internship Application Mania 3 - The Offer

I’ve been applying to advertising internships since early January. Mainly in Chicago (where I toured a number of advertising agencies with the AdClub last year) and Atlanta, but I also threw a couple resumes out to CP+B in Miami, Arnold in Boston, and GSD&M in Austin. While I didn’t have much hope of hearing back from these latter three agencies, I was invited to interview with Starcom MediaVest Group after completing their online assessment and dropping the name of a contact I had made at the company. The details of these two interviews provided me with the material for Internship Application Mania 1 and 2.

The final interview with Starcom went better than I could have hoped, but the interview was in early March and they weren’t going to let me know for 4-5 weeks. Ugh…the misery! While the rest of my friends were brimming with news of internship offers from the likes of JWT, Ogilvy, and DDB, I was viciously biting my nails to the bone while waiting for news (ANY news) from Starcom.

Ironically, I was blindside by good news from a completely different source:

Do you remember my very first post? No, I didn’t think so. In my post, I talked about an essay that I wrote as part of a scholarship application. Well, last week I was notified that I have been selected as 1 of 15 advertising students from around the country to receive the Vance Stickell Internship Scholarship sponsored by the American Advertising Federation. As part of this award, I’ve been paired with the The Richards Group in Dallas, TX. They are the #2 independent advertising agency in the country (by billings) and widely known for their creative approaches to work for such clients as Chick-fil-A, Amstel Light, and Hyundai. More important, their culture is the epitome of openness and approachability. In a industry where jumping from agency to agency seems to be the norm, The Richards Group prides itself on keeping good people under their roof.

I never thought I would say this, but it looks like I’m off to Texas this summer and I couldn’t be more thrilled!

Edit: Oh… and they also did one of my favorite superbowl spots.

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