Although my summer hasn't been as exciting as Jennifer, Nate, and Brandon's, I've spent the last two months working with the most amazing group of people. I have a consulting internship with a small CPA/consulting firm, J. Taylor & Associates. The firm is small and I get to interact on a daily basis with most of the consulting partners, associates, and just about everyone that works for the consulting side. The people here are compassionate, bright, and hard working, and have invested a lot of effort in helping me polish my professional skills.
As I realized when I first got here, consulting is a rather ambiguous term that can mean a lot of things. They’ve worked with a wide range of engagement types, but they specialize in doing strategic financial analysis within the healthcare industry. I’ve worked multiple hospitals this summer, helping them decide if they should bring in additional surgeons or what fair market value level of compensation a physician group should receive. It sounds easy enough in theory, but actually applying numbers and values to subjective decisions in search of the “right” answer is a complicated task. My coworkers are very intelligent and good at what they do, and keeping up with them every day has certainly pushed me. All in all, I couldn’t have asked for a more interesting and challenging internship. The only bad part has been waking up every morning for work instead of sleeping in!
Hope everyone’s having a safe, wonderful summer. Only one month left!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
If I had a dog, I could bring it to work!
Here is how I would describe my summer internship:
Let’s say that you are in need of a new body wash because your skin is looking dull and dry. You type “Vitamin E body scrub” into Google, and on the right, you see just what you are looking for!
Vitamin E Body Treatment
Revitalise your skin with Vitamin E
Body Treatment Scrub by Jo Malone.
www.JoMalone.com
Little did you know that I am the one who makes it possible for you to find what you’re looking for…
Here are some of my most basic tasks at Range Online Media (in the Stockyards!):
I come up with keywords – in my example, “Vitamin E body scrub” was the keyword. This means that I must come up with hundreds of variations for the keyword: body scrub, body wash, vitamin e body wash, etc.
Then, I come up with “creative” – the ads that appear on the side of the page when you’re searching for something on Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. This part is the most fun because I get to see my work in action!
I also create reports for my clients each week so that they understand what’s going on with their online accounts. Specifically, I’m working for on the Estee Lauder account.
Ok that’s enough for now! Hope yall are loving your jobs. If you’re in town, let’s hang out/do happy hour soon!
xoxo,
Kristen
Friday, June 6, 2008
Metro Cards, 5th Avenue, and WORK
Hello from Columbia!
This past week flew by! Already, I am immersing myself into the NYC culture. I certainly look as if I know where I am going, and I am not afraid to cross the streets on a green light. It is quite easy to blend in with the locals: walk quickly and don't look at the buildings, only whats ahead of you.
I have had an interesting week of work as well. Monday and Tuesday I was at the downtown office, located a mere 10 minute walk from the NYSE. I have been fingerprinted, IDed, and ok'ed for work. There are quite a few hurdles that individuals in this industry have to jump before being allowed to enter any of the buildings in Manhattan.
I am working with Carter Worth (who can be seen on CNBC's Fast Money and Closing Bell) and his research associate Jennifer. Basically, I will be assisting Carter with reports and his day-to-day business. It's been interesting so far, but I have to learn everything asap in order to effectively help out.
Wednesday-Friday I worked at Oppenheimer's Midtown office, located a block down from where we stayed in March. The building is actually on the corner of 42nd and Madison, in the PWC building. Its a beautiful building and much much more lively than the wall street office. The trading floor is the best: as the clock approaches nine-thirty am, you can feel the tension starting to mount and profanities start to echo across the room. I'm loving it!!
The best part of the job is that I usually am out by 3 pm every day. Which makes it very convenient for me to take on the shopping jungle of 5th avenue. Lucky for me, every store is having major sales so I'm getting some amazing deals! I am also keeping up with the nyc news via www.dailycandy.com. It's an excellent source of information for the goings-ons of the city.
Hope everyone has a great weekend! I possibly will be heading to the horse race this weekend. C'est la vie!!
-Jen
This past week flew by! Already, I am immersing myself into the NYC culture. I certainly look as if I know where I am going, and I am not afraid to cross the streets on a green light. It is quite easy to blend in with the locals: walk quickly and don't look at the buildings, only whats ahead of you.
I have had an interesting week of work as well. Monday and Tuesday I was at the downtown office, located a mere 10 minute walk from the NYSE. I have been fingerprinted, IDed, and ok'ed for work. There are quite a few hurdles that individuals in this industry have to jump before being allowed to enter any of the buildings in Manhattan.
I am working with Carter Worth (who can be seen on CNBC's Fast Money and Closing Bell) and his research associate Jennifer. Basically, I will be assisting Carter with reports and his day-to-day business. It's been interesting so far, but I have to learn everything asap in order to effectively help out.
Wednesday-Friday I worked at Oppenheimer's Midtown office, located a block down from where we stayed in March. The building is actually on the corner of 42nd and Madison, in the PWC building. Its a beautiful building and much much more lively than the wall street office. The trading floor is the best: as the clock approaches nine-thirty am, you can feel the tension starting to mount and profanities start to echo across the room. I'm loving it!!
The best part of the job is that I usually am out by 3 pm every day. Which makes it very convenient for me to take on the shopping jungle of 5th avenue. Lucky for me, every store is having major sales so I'm getting some amazing deals! I am also keeping up with the nyc news via www.dailycandy.com. It's an excellent source of information for the goings-ons of the city.
Hope everyone has a great weekend! I possibly will be heading to the horse race this weekend. C'est la vie!!
-Jen
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Live from NY, its DAY ONE!
Hello from the Upper West Side!
I arrived in Manhatten today and moved into my Columbia dorm. So far everything is going great. I am living in a high rise dorm (16th floor!), called East Campus, that has an amazing view of NYC, Harlem, and the Hudson River. I am staying in a five bedroom suite with an upstairs kitchen and living area and lower level bedrooms. One of my roommates, Greg, is an engineering student, interning with a major firm in the area. The other, Sarah, is a USC student interning at an NBC affiliate in Midtown. Our other two roommates have not moved in yet, and I'm hoping they don't because I am the only one with a double room. :(
Tomorrow I start my internship with Oppenheimer. 6:30 AM - BRIGHT and EARLY. After a long day of traveling and getting settled today, that 4 AM wake up is not going to be great. Thank goodness there is a coffee shop on every corner. Plus the transit alone is going to take a while considering I'm on 116th street and need to get to Wall Street (the other side of Manhatten). It's going to be an adventure! I will let you all know how it goes!
Hope all the fellows are having a great start to the summer!!
-Jen
I arrived in Manhatten today and moved into my Columbia dorm. So far everything is going great. I am living in a high rise dorm (16th floor!), called East Campus, that has an amazing view of NYC, Harlem, and the Hudson River. I am staying in a five bedroom suite with an upstairs kitchen and living area and lower level bedrooms. One of my roommates, Greg, is an engineering student, interning with a major firm in the area. The other, Sarah, is a USC student interning at an NBC affiliate in Midtown. Our other two roommates have not moved in yet, and I'm hoping they don't because I am the only one with a double room. :(
Tomorrow I start my internship with Oppenheimer. 6:30 AM - BRIGHT and EARLY. After a long day of traveling and getting settled today, that 4 AM wake up is not going to be great. Thank goodness there is a coffee shop on every corner. Plus the transit alone is going to take a while considering I'm on 116th street and need to get to Wall Street (the other side of Manhatten). It's going to be an adventure! I will let you all know how it goes!
Hope all the fellows are having a great start to the summer!!
-Jen
Thursday, May 29, 2008
igus in Koln
Hey Guys,
So far everything is awesome here in Germany. Check out our blog for igus at: http://www.igus.de/wpck/default.aspx?pagenr=4731
The company we work for specializes in manuafacturing small plastic bearing and energy chains (a large plastic chain that keep cables in place for a huge variety of applications. In Victory Park, igus energy chains are used in the system that moves the huge jumbotrons up and down the area outside the American Airlines Center. We are working in the E-Media department on tow different projects relating to the igus website. We would tell you what exactly we're doing, but we'd have to kill you...
We went to Dresden last weekend which was awesome. The city was beautiful and it was really interesting to be in Eastern Germany. It seems that Germany has spent millions of dollars on rebuilding all of the historic center of the city, and it looks like it was never touched (although the city essentially burned to the ground at one point). This weekend we are going to Frankfurt and Heidelberg to meet up with my Dad and some German friends. Hope everyone is enjoying summer so far!
Brandon and Nate
So far everything is awesome here in Germany. Check out our blog for igus at: http://www.igus.de/wpck/default.aspx?pagenr=4731
The company we work for specializes in manuafacturing small plastic bearing and energy chains (a large plastic chain that keep cables in place for a huge variety of applications. In Victory Park, igus energy chains are used in the system that moves the huge jumbotrons up and down the area outside the American Airlines Center. We are working in the E-Media department on tow different projects relating to the igus website. We would tell you what exactly we're doing, but we'd have to kill you...
We went to Dresden last weekend which was awesome. The city was beautiful and it was really interesting to be in Eastern Germany. It seems that Germany has spent millions of dollars on rebuilding all of the historic center of the city, and it looks like it was never touched (although the city essentially burned to the ground at one point). This weekend we are going to Frankfurt and Heidelberg to meet up with my Dad and some German friends. Hope everyone is enjoying summer so far!
Brandon and Nate
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