Internship Opportunities – Week Ending Nov. 30, 2007
(Recently listed opportunities in blue.)
For more information regarding these openings, please contact:
Shannon McKenzie, Internship Specialist at
internships@oakton.edu ● 847-635-1404
ACCOUNTING
Tax Intern (Bansley and Kierner)
Pay: $15.00/hour
Hours: 15-30 hours/week
Location: Chicago (O’Hare)
The interns will assist tax staff and partners in compiling necessary data to prepare individual
income tax returns. Candidates should have a strong desire to learn about income taxes, have
good written and oral communication skills and be proficient users of basic computer
programs and spreadsheets. The internship will run from January, 2008 through April 15,
2008. Interested applicants should be able to commit to approximately 30 hours per week.
Hours can be flexible around the student’s class schedule and may include weekend hours.
Accounting Intern (Lerman, Boudart, and Assoc.)
Pay: $12-15/hour
Hours: 16-20 hrs/week (Jan-April)
Location: Chicago
Intern will do tax returns. Interns must have some accounting background and excel
experience. More information to be posted soon.
Accounting/Business Intern (Fragias Insurance Group)
Pay: $10-11/hour
Hours: 10-15 hours/week
Location: Rolling Meadows
Intern will do filing, light accounting and billing, and learn the basics at an insurance agency.
The intern will be expected to use Word software.
Accounting/Tax Assistant (Mr. Refund)
Pay: $9-12/hour
Hours: 15-20 hrs/week
Location: Lincolnwood
Preparation of individual tax returns (training will be provided); assist with the preparation of
corporate and sales tax returns; account reconciliations; banking; general accounting from
preparing journal entries to financial statements; general office administrative duties; and
various marketing projects. Must have excellent communication skills and exp
Accounting Intern (Robert Coe & Assoc.)
Pay: $12/hour
Hours: ?
Location: Northbrook
Intern will do bookkeeping, office work, general accounting (bank recs, pay bills, record
journal entries, prepare transaction reports, billing, etc.). Responsibility commensurate with
ability.
Operations Asst/Accounting (Sybaris Clubs)
Pay: $10/hour
Hours: 10-12 hours/week
Location: Arlington Heights
The intern will work at the corporate office; generate and work with existing Excel
spreadsheets to record income and expenses and be involved in other operating and
accounting projects, as assigned.
MARKETING/SALES
Marketing Intern (Bertog Landscaping)
Pay: $10/hour
Hours: TBD
Location: Wheeling
Assist management in development of various strategies to increase the visibility of Bertog
Landscape and help build the brand among potential clients
Marketing/Advertising Intern (Bruce Lawrence Promotions)
Pay: TBD
Hours: flexible
Location: Northbrook
Intern will utilize various graphic skills to produce and send e-blasts, make outside sales calls
to new and existing clients, and do some invoicing, purchase orders, and sampling procedures
for client base. Company is involved in providing integrated marketing to a niche market.
eMarketing Internship (The Bradford Group)
Pay: $12/hour
Hours: ?
Location: Niles
Intern will initiate and manage product data within file maker database to ensure all products
are optimized for the marketing department for online marketing; perform extensive, detailed
quality control of the site to ensure site is optimized correctly for PPC (“pay per click”) and
organic search; work to create product categories to enable search engine crawlers to go
deeper into our site; and maintain integrity of information in search areas to make sure content
is timely and links will ensure good customer experience in finding products.
Marketing Intern (Marks & Whetstone)
Pay: $12/hour
Hours: 20 hours/week
Location: Itasca
Marks and Whetstone is a fast-growing Advertising/Marketing Agency looking for a
Marketing Intern to provide Account Manager support in a fast-paced marketing environment.
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to) maintaining schedules, interaction with clients
and vendors, preparing quotes, purchase orders, and ensuring estimates, project research,
scheduling meetings, working with accounting software and providing general administrative
support. This is a great learning opportunity! Must have working knowledge of Microsoft
Word, Excel, and the Internet (previous experience with QuickBooks a plus).
Marketing and Sales Assistant (Options Travel/Xeren Technology Solutions)
Pay: $8.00-14.00/hour
Hours: 10-20/week
Location: Des Plaines
Build multi-media presentations by taking electronic assets and bundling them into corporate
software; assemble presentation for corporate software; data entry; research appropriate
audiences to receive sample presentation
Web Based Marketing Intern (Plum Tree Group)
Pay: $10-25/hour
Hours: 25-30 hours/week
Location: Chicago
Designed for someone w/a passion for innovation in the area of web-based marketing. Intern
will be working on a variety of different functional areas including content development,
marketing research, product development; project management and support; advertising, and
email marketing. Intern will use a number of various coding environments and systems
primarily with a focus on Open Source and Windows technologies.
Sales Assistant (Taylor Chicago)
Pay: $10/hour plus commission
Hours: 20/weekly
Location: Elk Grove Village
Responsibilities will include date entry, building database, marketing projects, telemarketing,
and e-marketing.
Sales Rep (Vision Global Corp.)
Pay: $10/hour plus commission
Hours: flexible
Location: Chicago
Intern will be responsible for putting in place our marketing strategies to guarantee our
customers new clients.
Public Relations Intern (RSA Public Relations)
Unpaid Internship in Rockton, IL getting hands-on experience in PR firm; will write press
releases and phone work; unpaid by access to new products (CDs, tech gadgets, concert
tickets, books, etc.) before the public; for further information, please contact the Internship
Specialist.
National Sales Intern (101.9 “The Mix” Radio Station)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Promotion Intern (101.9 “The Mix” Radio Station)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Promotion Intern (100.3 “Love FM” Radio Station)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Sales Intern (97.1 “The Drive” Radio Station)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Graphic Artist/Product Designer (DM Merchandising Inc)
Pay: $10-12/hour
Hours: 20-35 hrs/week
Location: Elmhurst
Projects will include product design, packaging design, catalog and print layout/design,
photography, etc. Intern should be familiar with Macs, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop and
capable of creating clipping paths.
Graphic Design Assistant (Midwest Air Technologies)
Pay: $10-12/hour
Hours: ?
Location: Lincolnshire
Assemble high quality mockups for presentations; pull, organize, pack, and ship samples for
presentation and shows; shoot products; Photoshop work (i.e. outlining, tweaking images);
web/print design; designing art using Illustrator on PC.
Web and Print Graphic Design Intern (Plum Tree Group)
Pay: $10-25/hour
Hours: 15-30 hours/week
Location: Chicago
Responsibilities include designing logo’s, letterhead, business cards, and web-pages, as well
as graphic design customer support, email marketing, and designing mock-ups for clients.
Intern will use a number of various coding environments and systems primarily with a focus
on Open Source and Windows technologies.
JOURNALISM
Copy Editor (Chicago Windy City Guide)
Pay: $12-15/hour
Hours: 16 hours/week
Location: Northbrook
Update monthly magazine and web site content; mail out media kits and magazines, confirm
magazine delivery with clients by phone. Good opportunity for someone interested in
journalism, publishing, marketing, or advertising.
NON-PROFIT
Legal Interns (Citizen Advocacy Center)
Unpaid internships working on substantive legal projects; please contact the Internship
Specialist for information on specific 2008 projects.
Development Intern (Geneva Foundation of Presbyterian Homes)
Pay: $10-12/hour
Hours: ?
Location: Evanston
Offer clerical support to development department. Must be proficient in Word, Excel, and
email. Good phone skills, writing, and proofing are a plus. Must be able to work all or part
of Friday.
Development Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Children’s Humanities Festival Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Education Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Finance and Administration Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Marketing Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Production Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Program Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Volunteer Program Intern (Chicago Humanities Festival)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
POLITICAL
Congressional Campaign Interns (Congressman Mark Kirk)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
Congressional Intern (Congresswoman Janice Schakowsky)
Unpaid Internship; for further information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
TECHNOLOGY
Multi-Media Developer (American College of Chest Physicians)
Pay: $10-12/hour
Hours: 15-30 hours/week
Location: Northbrook
Intern would have limited mailroom responsibilities and would also work with the creation of
DVD’s composed of PowerPoint presentations and synchronized audio creation of podcasts
and website development (html and php). Intern will use software: OSX, Flash, Photoshop
CS3, Final Cut Pro, Cleaner, Flash CS3, and Director MX.
Systems Administrator (Feldco Factory Direct)
Pay: $9-15/hour
Hours: 20 or more hours/week
Location: Norridge
The intern will be performing systems and networking administration; additionally, the intern
will be assisting in the physical development of servers, networking equipment, and end-user
tech support. Daily activities include maintaining user accounts, server setup and
performance monitoring, station setup and takedown, relocation of servers, and network
layout and setup.
Sr. Applications Systems Intern (John Crane)
Pay: $10.50/hour
Hours: 25hours/week
Location: Morton Grove
Responsibilities will be: update Sharepoint lists and libraries; program in ASP, ASP.Net;
create dynamic window forms; create web pages and web images; data entry; and
administrative tasks as needed. Intern will be expected to use FrontPage 2005, Visual Studio,
Dreamweaver/Fireworks, Sharepoint, Adobe Acrobat, and Access database.
IT Intern (John Crane)
Pay: $10.50/hour
Hours: ?
Location: Morton Grove
Responsibilities will be: setup, image, and configure new PC’s for users; analysis of help desk
tickets and follow-up for Quality Control purposes; generating reports using off the shelf
software; inventory analysis and data gathering, equipment disposition; answer help desk
calls; assist with Asset delivery; and use remote software to assist with PC troubleshooting.
Intern should have solid experience with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Office products
Excel, Word, and Excel; be able to type 50 wpm; and good written and verbal communication
skills.
Web-based Software Development Intern (Plum Tree Group)
Pay: $10-25/hour
Hours: 15-30 hours/week
Location: Chicago
Intern will work on a variety of different development and programming areas, such as
database schema designs, application development and maintenance, help desk,
documentation standards, project support, and coding. Intern will use a number of various
coding environments and systems primarily with a focus on Open Source and Windows
technologies.
Associate Network Administrator/Helpdesk (White Way Sign Company)
Pay: $12-15/hour
Hours: 15-30 hours/week
Location: Mount Prospect
Intern will configure servers, switches, workstations and laptops; maintain backup processes
and procedures; setup, maintain, and manage directory users & group policies; provide
helpdesk support for end-users.
New Media Intern (101.9 “The Mix” Radio Station)
Unpaid Internship; Internet/Web development sector of Radio broadcasting; for further
information, please contact the Internship Specialist.
MANUFACTURING/ENGINEERING/CAD/ARCHITECTURE/ETC.
Geographic Information System Intern (City of Evanston, Water & Sewer Dept.)
Pay: $12-15/hour
Hours: 15-20 hours/weekly
Location: Evanston
Good experience for someone interested in Computer Applications in Business or Geography.
Work would include editing and entering spatial data to GIS and Maintenance Management
System. Primarily assist in updating and maintaining the Water & Sewer Distribution System
pipeline and appurtenances in the City’s GIS system. Must be computer savvy, and will be
taught software ESRI GIS, ARCMAP, ARCINFO, and Cityworks.
Water/Sewer Mechanic Intern (City of Evanston, Water & Sewer Dept.)
Pay: $10-20/hour
Hours: 15-20 hours/weekly
Location: Evanston
Work would include assisting in the Pumping, Filtration, and Distribution Divisions, assisting
in the maintenance and operation of mechanical and electrical equipment, including HVAC,
pumps, actuators, valves and piping. Intern will be expected to use power and hand tools and
be computer literate (primarily Excel).
Machine Repair Internship (Klein Tools)
Pay: ?
Hours: ?
Location: Skokie
Repair and maintain machine tools and industrial machines, applying knowledge of
mechanics, shop mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures.