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6 things you can learn from your intern
In principle, an intern comes to you to sniff around the future, to warm up to people with years of experience, and to peek at how things really work in life. But at the same time, she (or he) brings a wealth of knowledge that you old-timer can still learn a lot from. Yes, I'm talking to myself too, yes.
1. Snapchat
I don't understand Snapchat, I find it ugly (can someone do something about that ghost icon?), but of course I want to know what's going on and how we can position ourselves on this new channel. I won't be breaking my old head over it anymore, I have a super intern for whom Snapchat is a piece of cake. I tell her in turn what the expression ‘for a penny’ means, because she had never heard of that.
2. Cv de luxe
I know how to color your CV content-wise so that you stand out in the crowd (read here for a moment), but graphically I find it quite something if I have managed to create a little box around my text. But that's no longer enough these days. Today I received a customized bottle of Chardonnay where the lid of the box was a CV and that was then hung on the grid with which we fill our editors' pages. Shopping editor Lilian had made a mini-portfolio that I could unfold into a style newspaper with photos so beautiful that I had to hire her. While there was no vacancy at all…
”Everything I want to know but am too lazy or too digitally elderly to figure out”
3. Instagram tricks
How to crop a photo, what the best filters are, the most fun people to follow, the best tricks to grow your account (which I then don't apply) and everything, everything, everything I want to know but am too lazy or too digitally elderly to figure out.
4. The nicest things from Zara
That comes in here every day again in the nicest packages that they shopped for a pittance (they then don't know what that word means…) at Zara or H&M…
5. Handy spreadsheet tricks
“No, I've already put that in a little spreadsheet. Wait, I'll add it to your favorites, then you'll have it right in your menu bar when you open the internet.” That's Annick, our can’t-live-without-super-intern. So those kinds of things.
6. Shall I walk along for a bit?
That is Theo, who now has a job with us, because that's what you get when you are a super intern all day long. When I walk by overloaded again, Theo jumps up and asks if he should walk along. He opens doors, grabs clothing bags, and has just put a fresh ginger tea on my desk in the morning.
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