Being a professional writing or even English major, it can be hard to figure out what to do upon graduation from college. Internships help provide experience not only to include in a résumé, but also to narrow possible career choices.
Luckily there are numerous internships available around Birmingham and on UAB’s campus. One of the most beneficial is for UAB Digital Media. What is UAB Digital Media you ask? Well, UAB Digital Media is a group of Media Interns and Media Fellows that work on design projects in the Digital Media Commons. The Digital Media Commons is located on the third floor of Heritage Hall and is a lab specifically designed to work with all Adobe programs and other software on state of the art iMacs. They always have interns and fellows running around the media commons willing and ready to help anyone in need. They are always looking for unpaid Media Interns and the qualifications aren’t too demanding. You don’t need to have any experience whatsoever with any of the Adobe programs or technology, although it would help if you do when competing for the spot since they only recruit new people per semester. All you have to do is fill out a basic form online and attach your résumé or your portfolio to it. Also you must be able to work ten hours a week and have enough course credits under your belt to even apply.
They can offer three hours of college credit in eight departments: art, communications, English, history, government (political studies), media studies, music technology, and theater. If college credit isn’t something you need or you don’t need to perform any internships to graduate, then you might be interested in becoming a member of the volunteer crew.Experience is required if you decide to volunteer. If you finish the internship and want to continue to help, then you can apply to become a Media Fellow. Media Fellows are students, who are highly experienced in digital media.
As a part of the UAB Digital Media crew, you’ll get to work on developing websites, constructing a social media strategy, and filming and editing promotional videos. Also handling camera equipment and other expensive media equipment will be a part of the job. Mostly, you must be a happy person and have excitement for learning new things. You’ll be in a fast pace environment with deadlines since UAB Digital Media takes on projects from real clients on and off campus. Media Fellows and Media Interns have the chance to work together and learn from each other since UAB Digital Media is team-based and project based. Students with different skills will be working together and learning from each other. It would be a great opportunity because it would be a great résumé builder and potential employers would be able to see that you have design skills.
