Unigo.com's Online/Virtual Internship (Marketing, PR, Biz Dev, Social Media)
Unigo.com —
New York, NY — Virtual
Unigo is on the hunt for a few geniuses to be a part of our company, and to live the dream with us. At Unigo we don't train to just compete, we train to WIN. If you want a pedigree from proven winners, look no further. There are a lot of internships out there, but very few come with being an integral part of a proven track record of success, and predicted future success that you can be a part of.
We're not too cool to admit it, we want you. We want you on our team. We want the student who knows there is more to a college experience than just class, naps and nightlife. The student that has the urge to help change an entire industry alongside some of the world's brightest recent graduates. You have a computer. You want an internship. You have a few extra hours a week. You're what we want, so don't pass this up.
More about Unigo.com:
Unigo is a free online college resource guide and student platform claiming to cover more than 1,600 colleges and universities in the United States. The Unigo website is used by college students to share photos, videos, documents, and reviews of their school. High school students and parents use the site as a research tool to explore college options.
Unigo's main purpose is to create a student-generated online college guide that does not have the limitations that its print counterparts do. This allows college students to update information about their school on a continuous basis and cover topics not found in traditional guidebooks. Student-submitted photos and videos allow users to see what Carnegie Mellon's newspaper, The Tartan, described as "a virtual campus visit."
The company was launched in the fall of 2008 by an editorial team of 18 recent college graduates. Unigo is the brainchild of Jordan Goldman, a 2004 graduate of Wesleyan University who came up with the idea after publishing a bestselling college guidebook, The Students Guide to Colleges, while he was a student. Goldman was inspired to create a student-generated college guide after his own college admissions process was examined by New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg for a nonfiction book on higher education called The Gatekeepers.
Two of Unigo's notable backers include Frank Sica, the director of Northstar Realty and Carl Hamann, co-founder of ConsumerSearch. After going live, Unigo hit 1.35 million page views in its first week.
Unigo was named one of the "24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008" by Mashable and Forbes put creator Goldman on its "Watch List" for 2009. In 2009, The Wall Street Journal described Unigo as "a college-information resource built for the age of YouTube and Facebook." The WSJ further noted: "[T]he site seems to have struck a good balance between the immediacy and candor of student submissions, and the professionalism needed to weed out wildly biased or inaccurate claims."