as one of the head farmers of the Barn, it’s been really interesting watching their process over the past few weeks. they only have ten weeks of an internship, and so far they’ve been thrust together with absolute strangers and had to figure out how to work with one another and then together figure out a project that was doable, interesting and could provide good learnings for the rest of the agency. and not all of them are “ad kids” and know the tricks and shortcuts that we do.
i’m particularly interested in their team dynamics – as BBH and the industry moves to a more fluid, collaborative model our ability to work together with people right off the bat is so important and is a skill set that isn’t taught nor talked about all that much. should we be talking about that more? or do we just grow up and get on with this and just not be a twat to people?
el rolio
2 years ago
Hi! sorta kinda hijacking this post to ask a question that I didnt wanna guerilla into an email to you…
So how does an internship programme actually work? Alls I really know about interns is the cliche role of “coffee retrieval”. But clearly at the BARN, its about giving them a project platform to do something over a summer. Ok, but does that mean they don’t work on your work? or worse, retrieve your coffee? And if not, then whats the impact or reasoning on the side of the host company?
I could go on and on spouting hypotheticals but its this simple: I naively have no idea what an internship programme (in the ad world) is about, and critically – what the benefits are for both agency and intern. Whats the end result for both parties?
please help,
roli
ps: feel free to email if you wanna un-clutter yer blog