Scarcelli, center with white shirt and black tie, poses with several other interns at the 阿尔图纳 Curve.
吉诺·斯卡切利18岁
营销管理
Summer 2018 internship, 阿尔图纳 Curve
我一直很喜欢运动. I played them until I graduated from high school. Now that I'm studying 市场营销 management, I am interested in the 业务 side of sports. My internship at the 阿尔图纳 Curve was a great fit for me.
I typically worked in the front office making sales calls and assisting the staff with tasks that varied from day to day. 我还协助市场营销, which included sending out pocket schedules and posters to the local community.
On game days, it wasn't abnormal to work 15 hour days. I started the day working in the office, then I would help set up a few hours before the game started. 我会站在顶门, hand out programs and talk to fans, making sure they were having a good experience. I also assisted with pre-game performances, 包括第一次投球, "梦幻之地"团队, 和游行. During each game, I helped with all of the on-field activities that took place throughout the night. 很忙，但很有趣. 我真的很喜欢.
All of the interns working at the Curve were given the opportunity to create our own “theme night.” We were responsible for all of the 市场营销, promotions, and sponsorships for it. We decided on an old-time baseball theme for our night, 包括旧时音乐吗, 老式的场上比赛, and a vintage looking scoreboard. We were able to bring an old-time baseball team to the game. They set up a table on the concourse and showed off their old-time baseball gear to the fans. Overall, the night was a great success.
My intern supervisor took me on some player appearances in the community, so I was able to meet some of the players. What I really enjoyed the most, though, was getting to know the fans. By the end of the season, many of them knew me by name and would come up to talk to me. I thought it was awesome that I was doing my job well enough that people took a liking to me.
I want to continue to work in sports in the future, and my internship with the Curve gave me the experience I need for future jobs in the sports field. I gained great sales skills from making sales calls. I learned not to be discouraged by 'no.' Ninety percent of the time in sales, 你会被拒绝的, and my internship prepared me for how to handle that. I refined my people and public speaking skills through being in and around crowds during the games, and my time management skills also greatly improved, because during the games we had a tight window to complete all of our tasks.
I’m very excited because I’ve had two interviews for a sales position with the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, with a third interview scheduled for the coming weeks. I know that the Curve absolutely prepared me for the job should I be offered the position.
我来自匹兹堡, so I would love to eventually work in sales or 市场营销 for the Pirates, 钢人队的, 或者企鹅. That’d be a dream come true for me.
An internship offers real-world opportunity and experience you wouldn't have otherwise. I believe you need that work experience if you want a full-time job, so I encourage other students to look into and think seriously about doing an internship.
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