WAAM Internships

The WAAM Internship will provide students with practical hands on experience on how a marketing organisation functions. Students will be actively involved and engaged in the day to day activities that the WAAM staff are involved in thus providing them with invaluable experience and exposure.

At WAAM because we deal with all aspects of marketing we are able to provide you with a more holistic and realistic picture of what occurs within the Marketing Industry. A WAAM internship will help you develop skills in the following areas:
  • Developing Marketing Plans
  • Lead Generation Techniques
  • Market Research
  • Concept Development
  • SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
With the wide variety of marketing tasks that we undertake, we are seeking interns from the following areas of speciality:
  • Video & Film Production
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Design
  • Photography
  • PR
  • Website Design & Development
  • Social Networking
  • Copywriting
  • Account Manager
  • PA
  • Business Development
  • Concept Development
  • Strategist
  • Digital Marketing
  • Market Research
  • Business Analyst
  • Internal Communication
Due to the wide variety of tasks and responsibility levels that are available, our internships will be broken into 3 levels to reflect the appropriate skill and experience levels of the candidate. Each level will have different knowledge program and professional growth path. These levels include:
  • Starter Experience: This level includes students at school and those with little to no marketing knowledge or experience.Advantages: starting to know what it means to work in a marketing office, team sharing, online marketing and improving computer knowledge.
  • Entry Level: Entry level internships are for graduated people and individuals with intermediate marketing knowledge and have intermediate knowledge of specific software applications.Advantages: work on specific tasks in marketing planning, brainstorming, challenging activities, professional growth.
  • Higher Level Education: This includes individuals with higher level qualifications such as MBA or Masters in Marketing and Communication as well as individuals with strong marketing experience who wish to be involved in the whole marketing planning process for different markets. Advantages: leadership growth, customer marketing, planning, management, and responsibility, business development, office organisation, internal procedure review, team management, project management.
At WAAM we seek individuals with the following characteristics:They have to be hard working, ambitious, independent worker, highly motivated, team player, self starter and have to be willing to go the extra mile.If you can identify yourself with one of the following of personalities or even better you are one of them!Then please don't hesitate as we look forward hearing from you. Personalities we are looking for:
  • Metrics: people who see the world in different shades of numbers and words.
  • Gen Y: people who think that the ipod is a significant invention in mankind's history.
  • Guerrilla marketers: an out of the box mentality to marketing is one you adopt.
  • Analysers: target markets, consumer demographics, marketing proposals...this is just the type of information crunching you like
  • Bloggers: people who share and transfer information to others... the need to be heard is exhilarating.
  • Java: a child of technology, you are technically proficient and like all things in code.
  • Optimisers: you like fulfilling the potential of others, be it by helping them or helping yourself.
  • RSS ( Really Serious Sorts): Work is serious to you, going the extra mile is a given.
  • Social Networkers: an obsessive compulsive need to socialize is your thing, just make sure your not always on facebook!
  • Brain stormer: ideas come easily to you, concepts fall on your lap without much effort.
  • Sales: You are a talker and think that persuading people is a job.  
The WAAM internship duration is varied in time and length. As a result there are 4 distinct internship durations available which include:
  • 3 months
  • 6 months
  • 9 months
  • 12 months
A specific timetable can be set up to tailor to your individual availability and time requirements. However a minimum of 2 days a week is recommended in order to fully utilise your internship experience.
Upon completion of the internship program students will receive:
  • Experience and knowledge: Knowledge and experience on the functioning of a marketing firm.
  • Certificate: A printed certificate with the WAAM logo acknowledging that the individual has successfully completed the internship.
  • Reference: A reference from the WAAM firm to future employers.
If you want to know what former Interns think about having an internship with WAAM please click here then click the Read Testimonial link to read their testimonial.
  • What do I get from a WAAM Internship? A WAAM internship will provide you with invaluable practical work experience in the marketing industry which can be used as a platform to gain employment.
  • What does WAAM do? As a marketing firm WAAM helps companies improve on their current marketing activities in an attempt to stimulate more business for the company. WAAM has worked successfully with big name brands including: McAfee, Kyocera and Lexus.
  • How big is the company? WAAM is a small to medium sized organisation with a small intimate staff that are always willing to lend a helping hand. There are always a couple of interns at the office at one time so that you can share your experience with like minded individuals.
  • Why is the minimum duration of the internship 3 months? WAAM feels that in order to gain a fully holistic understanding of both the company's operations and also to develop and gel with the WAAM team a significant amount of time is required to do this.
  • What Sort of work experience is required to get a WAAM internship? Essentially WAAM is looking for hard working, ambitious motivated individuals that are willing to learn. A qualification or skill set with particular software is advantageous but is not required.
To apply for a WAAM Internship, please visit our WAAM Careers page to fill in an online application and a WAAM representative will contact you at the earliest convenience. Please state the field of interest in your application (e.g. Marketing, Video, Photography, Graphic Design, Interior Styling, Web Development, Account Management etc).

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