Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Local internship: Westport firm

A local (Westport, MA) company is recruiting a junior or senior business student with an interest in Supply Chain, Operations / Operations Management, or Sales, would likely get the most out of an internship at TopGrading Solutions. Details follow. Please apply by sending your resume and cover letter (electronically) to the contact below.

TopGrading Solutions Internship

TopGrading Solutions (www.topgradingsolutions.com ) is an MRI Network affiliate, the world's largest management and professional search firm with over 1,100 offices in 36 countries. Our office ranked in the top 25% of our 1,100 global offices in 2007. Our office specializes in Supply Chain within Consumer Goods.

Overview of the internship/coop objectives:
The intern will be heavily involved in internet research, entering information into our database, and posting information and/or video to certain websites.

Primary duties and responsibilities:

Most of the duties and responsibilities of the intern will be based from our computer database. The student will assist the Office Manager with ongoing database maintenance tasks, helping to make our database efficient and profitable. He/she will be responsible for use of websites such as Linkedin (a professional networking site), Indeed and Monster to search for possible companies and candidates, and heavy use of search engines like Google, to research missing contact information.

What will the student learn from this experience?


This position will help to better the student's organizational, technological, research skills, and knowledge of Microsoft Applications. The intern will also get an in-depth look into the professional world. As we help supply chain professionals take their careers to the next
level, the intern will learn the ins and outs of the job searching / interviewing process – giving them a much better understanding of exactly what employers are looking for.

Job Title:

Intern/ Internet Researcher

Academic preparation of the student required (graduate, senior, junior, courses taken, GPA, etc.):

Junior or Senior with an interest in Supply Chain, Operations / Operations Management, or Sales, would likely get the most out of an internship at TopGrading Solutions.

Skills required:

Student must be internet savvy, have good time management skills and be familiar with Microsoft applications including Word and Outlook.

Hours of work:
Flexible / Open to discussion.
Start and end dates:
2011 Spring Semester Internship

Primary supervisor:

Kelly Moura, Office Manager.

To whom should students send resume/application and how?

Students may email their resume/application to Kelly@topgradingsolutions.com with "Intern Application" in the subject field.

Deadline for submitting resume/application:

We are accepting resumes/applications at all times. However we are hoping to fill this internship by the start of the spring semester.