We said it yesterday and probably the day before that and the week before that and the month before that, but get yourself some work experience.  Get yourself an internship!  Even the government are catching onto our ideas and it’s a well known fact that they’re a bunch of f*** wits! Never missing the chance to provide a sound bite or two my good friend David Lammy The Minister for Skills (He has some mad beat boxing skills!) attended a conference organised by the East of England Development Agency and said that graduates could provide fresh talent for businesses: “The Talent Pool will sit alongside the thousands of other opportunities available to new graduates that will help them improve their chances to get a long-term and well paid career�.  If the government know it’s a good idea, then businesses will also know it’s a good idea so check out some of these videos on internships or our friends at RateMyPlacement or WEXO.

Good news internship hunters, during my many, many hours of web crawling (and no I still don’t know how those pictures ended up in my personal collection) I found something that should be of interest to you.  Over at The Big Yellow Self Storage Company they’re looking for a paid intern to help with the launch of their new highly classified campaign, but they doing it with a twist.  The self storers have decided to break the mould and take a leaf out of the speed dating book, and adding in a little social media to be in the safe side.  Yes they’re going to mix it up, spin you around and aim you at 12seconds.tv where they want you to load up a video of yourself saying why you’re the greatest.  For those of you unfamiliar with 12seconds.tv let old Boss Hanson educate you: it’s a video micro blogging site offering you 12 seconds to do your worst.

 

So if you’re interested in becoming a self storage media campaign intern person here’s how to enter a competition designed to test your social media prowess:

 

1. Register an account on 12seconds.tv/campaign/bigyellowselfstorage

2. Link your Twitter account to your 12 seconds account

3. Record your video 12 second video on a mobile phone, video camera or webcam and upload your video at 12seconds.tv/campaign/bigyellowselfstorage

4. Fill in the ‘submit my CV’ from and attach a recent copy of your CV

 

The search is open to PR, marketing and new media undergraduates and new graduates but is also open to submissions from anyone else who fancies a go providing they’re over the age of 18 and are eligible to work in the UK.  The closing date for entries is May 30^th 2009. The winner will be announced on June 15^th 2009.