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Hi again. Just a quick update to let you know what I’ve been up to. The viral video that my old intern started and that I continued with when I joined has now gone live! Check it out here on YouTube… Now you can see the kind of thing I am doing as a marketing intern at Intel. I am currently promoting this video as much as possible and have already started brainstorming ideas for the next one!

A few days ago we held a marketing assessment centre for the next interns starting in July 2010. That seems ages away, but Intel like to get it sorted early. I can’t believe it was a whole year ago that I was in their position and fighting for one of the marketing placements. It was a really fun day and really interesting to see it from the other perspective. It was much more relaxing to take part in the day without being judged! All the current marketing interns helped out on the day and I hope the candidates got as much out of it as I did last year. I found it so helpful to speak to the current interns on their level and ask questions you might not want to ask a potential manager. So we were honest and open, but full of positive things to say as we all seem to love it here. It’s quite exciting to think who will be taking over from me and who the whole new set of interns will be made up of.

I remember last year during my assessment centre they showed a video and gave a talk about why you would want to work for Intel. I remember after watching it I felt really inspired and convinced that Intel was exactly where I wanted to work. Anyway, they did it again this year and it was quite funny – I found myself reacting in the same way all over again! It got me thinking how glad I am that I’ve got a placement here and that I would really like to come back after Uni!

At the moment we are briefly talking about the next event we will be holding in March. This time it will be a face to face event which is really great as it means during my placement year I will have experienced holding an event both virtually and in real life. As it is a face to face event all the preparation I have to do will be completely different! Currently we are narrowing down locations, hotels and types of networking activities and I will get to travel which is exciting.

On the social scene the interns have a lot lined up. In March there is a 4 day trip to Dublin to see the interns in the Ireland office and have a look round the FAB (factory where they make Intel products). No doubt this trip will include some great nights out and a trip to the Guinness Factory – which goes without saying when you visit Dublin. Unfortunately, I can’t make this trip as it overlaps with the conference I am holding in March. I was a bit gutted about this at first but it’s just the way the dates worked out and at least I will be in another country too! We’ve also got an Xmas pub quiz lined up, and intern Xmas dinner, a house party and the Intel Office Party so a busy time before the holidays.

My team is pretty flexible so over the Xmas period I will be going home to London like I would at the end of term when at Uni. I am combining taking days off and working from home so I can save some holiday for the summer. Hopefully it will be reasonably quiet over the holiday period and I won’t need to come into the office as a lot of people will be taking holiday around that time.

This quick message turned into quite a long one! But it’s all good as I need do some work for Uni and I’m hoping I can use these blog entries to jog my memory about what I’ve done. I also need to start thinking about my placement essay that i have to complete this year which mean coming up with a title a.s.a.p. but I admit I am finding it quite a struggle to think about Uni work when you get so involved in the mindset of working in a job.

Anyway, I will give you another update soon about what else I have been doing!