It's already the beginning of my third week here at Equity Trust, and I can’t believe how quickly time flies! This is going to be the first post about the internship experience at Equity Trust Company, and I’m so excited to get it up and going. This blog is actually a part of my project, so bear with me as the other interns and I figure out all the secrets to blogging. To quickly introduce myself, I'm Lauren Romance, the HR intern here at Equity Trust. To put something worthwhile in this blog post, here’s the blog I wrote last week to sum up my past two weeks:
“So it’s the end of my second week here at Equity Trust. On Wednesday, our CEO, Vice President, and Director of HR took us all out to lunch at the Elyria Country Club. It was a really great opportunity to ask them about their jobs, how they got to where they were, and their advice for us. Not every company gives you the chance to chat with the CEO about his college days and where all the Vice President has traveled in his work career. The best part was, yes, the delicious lunch, and the fact that they were all great people who were really interested in what we were doing.
Besides going out to lunch with the executives, I’m working on my three large projects for the summer: enhancing the Equity Trust career site, learning about and writing a manual for Taleo – the new applicant tracking system, and creating Facebook/Twitter career pages to use in the future as a recruiting tool. It’s a lot on my plate now, but Equity Trust is a really supportive environment. Our webmaster has already met with Ryan, the marketing intern, and me about Facebook and Twitter and showed us a lot of great info about how the company uses those sites already.
The one thing that’s truly great about working as the HR intern here is that my effort and work is really valued in the company. I meet with my supervisor a great deal and update her all the time with what I’m doing for the project. Also, I get to see how some of the functional, day-to-day HR work is done. In the past two weeks, I’ve reviewed resumes, done reference calls, and helped enter in payroll information for newly acquired employees.
Another thing everyone should know is that Equity Trust is notorious for the fun activities it puts on for all its employees. Tonight we all get to go to the Indian’s game. Although our team isn’t doing so hot right now, we’re going to have an Equity Trust dinner on the house, meet Slider, and get free tickets to the game! And we get out of work at 4:30 today to get ready….very nice.”
“So it’s the end of my second week here at Equity Trust. On Wednesday, our CEO, Vice President, and Director of HR took us all out to lunch at the Elyria Country Club. It was a really great opportunity to ask them about their jobs, how they got to where they were, and their advice for us. Not every company gives you the chance to chat with the CEO about his college days and where all the Vice President has traveled in his work career. The best part was, yes, the delicious lunch, and the fact that they were all great people who were really interested in what we were doing.
Besides going out to lunch with the executives, I’m working on my three large projects for the summer: enhancing the Equity Trust career site, learning about and writing a manual for Taleo – the new applicant tracking system, and creating Facebook/Twitter career pages to use in the future as a recruiting tool. It’s a lot on my plate now, but Equity Trust is a really supportive environment. Our webmaster has already met with Ryan, the marketing intern, and me about Facebook and Twitter and showed us a lot of great info about how the company uses those sites already.
The one thing that’s truly great about working as the HR intern here is that my effort and work is really valued in the company. I meet with my supervisor a great deal and update her all the time with what I’m doing for the project. Also, I get to see how some of the functional, day-to-day HR work is done. In the past two weeks, I’ve reviewed resumes, done reference calls, and helped enter in payroll information for newly acquired employees.
Another thing everyone should know is that Equity Trust is notorious for the fun activities it puts on for all its employees. Tonight we all get to go to the Indian’s game. Although our team isn’t doing so hot right now, we’re going to have an Equity Trust dinner on the house, meet Slider, and get free tickets to the game! And we get out of work at 4:30 today to get ready….very nice.”
