This is Elise and Shannon from Indianapolis Monthly writing again to share with you two more Q&As with former Emmis interns who are now Emmis employees! Jennifer Mulzer, HR Generalist for Emmis Communications, and Jonathan Scott, Digital Media Manager for Indianapolis Monthly, shared with us information about their career paths, knowledge about their fields and advice for current Emmis interns! Enjoy!
Jennifer Mulzer, HR Generalist for Emmis Communications
1. What is your educational background?
BA Telecommunications; MA English and Journalism
2. What internship position did you have when you interned at Emmis?
I was an editorial intern at Indianapolis Monthly.
3. What is the career path that led you to work at Emmis?
After my internship, I worked for Indianapolis Monthly as a
receptionist/editorial assistant and then became a corporate paralegal for Emmis
Legal Department. Currently, I'm an HR Generalist with our HR department.
4. How did you land a spot working at Emmis?
I would network and talk to co-workers about job opportunities with Emmis. I
knew immediately during my internship that I wanted to work with Emmis
because of the culture, people and business. I love media, journalism and
law so it was a natural fit for me to stay.
5. What things did you learn from your internship that apply to your work
now?
Communication and networking are important. Ask for help if you don't know
the answer - you should always be learning.
6. What advice would you give to interns who would like to work at Emmis in
the future?
Take your time to figure out what you enjoy doing. Look for a job/career
path that inspires and drives you everyday. You need to enjoy coming to work
everyday.
7. What are employers looking for in interns who might be future employees?
Looking for candidates who are willing to work hard, research, learn and
bring new ideas to the table.
8. Anything else you would like to add that might be helpful for interns?
Have fun during your internship and continue to ask for additional projects
or work. An internship is one opportunity to make a good impression so you
want to make the best of it.
Jonathan Scott, Digital Media Manager for Indianapolis Monthly
1. What intern position did you have? How old were you (i.e. junior or senior in college)?
I was an editorial intern during the Spring 2005 semester (Jan-May), as a fifth-year senior. I sat at the intern stations around the corner from then-editor Deborah Way's office, now managing editor Kim Hannel's office.
2. What college did you attend? What was your major?
I went to Ball State University and studied journalism. I was in the major's news-editorial sequence even though I worked for two years as managing editor at the student magazine, expo, which has now converged with the Ball Bearings online mag there.
3. Did you have any other jobs before coming to work at Emmis?
I immediately began working post-internship (also post-grad) as a freelance writer for Indy Monthly, and for a few months at both Banana Republic and the Claddagh Irish Pub, as a host. Some would say I was slumming, but it was all right--I was working and living downtown and having a good time, just as I am now. Then I got my clichéd "big break" at Wiley Publishing, Inc., where I was a Production Editor for more than five years and was promoted twice. I worked in Frommer's Travel Guides and Travel For Dummies books--all of those yellow-and-black Dummies books are produced in Indy, and few people seem to know that.
From Wiley I returned to Indy Monthly in late July 2011 in the newly created position of Digital Media Manager, and so my career path basically had one arc before I came back here.
4. What did you learn at your Emmis internship?
I learned in my Emmis internship how to be diplomatic, courteous, and/or firm at different times, depending on what was needed to get a source to aid you in fact-checking a story at hand or simply to get someone to put a call through to a contact. And I learned to have fun with it, as in headline-brainstorming meetings with the senior editors. I also learned a lot about the production schedules involved with a monthly magazine and how we are always working two months ahead.
5. What advice, if any, do you have for future Emmis interns?
Work hard to show them what you've got. Ask for more work, and do everything you can to make yourself memorable. Think of it as a job with training wheels - you never know when you may want to return to the place of your internship. To that point, stay in touch with your internship supervisor(s). These are channels of communication that you will want to keep open for a long time. Networking starts now.
6. How and why did you decide to work at Emmis?
I was and am very pleased with the culture and the climate at Emmis. I think Jeff Smulyan is a great leader, and wants the best of and for Emmis employees. He expressed that in an op-ed letter co-signed with other top business leaders that ran in the local newspaper. I also quite liked the team that we have at Indianapolis Monthly, and a few colleagues remain here from my time as an intern six-and-a-half years ago. With the magazine market and industry turnover such as it is, that's a great sign. The Digital Media Manager position enticed because digital is not the future--it is now--and there's a lot of room for growth in the role and with all that we can do on the web with our editorial content and advertising.
7. What are employers looking for in interns who might be future employees?
They want self-starting, motivated people - interns of action who can be cultivated to become dedicated colleagues of action. Of course interns bring all of their training and skills to the table in an internship. From there it's good to be malleable to what the professionals can teach you in the internship setting.
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