Good morning. With only three months left until summer internships start, aspiring professionals everywhere are rushing to polish up their resumes. While they’re all busy with overused tips and tricks articles, New Intern is releasing something special for its readers. From now on, every newsletter will include a real resume example that shows what employers are actually looking for. Find today’s example in our new “📚 The Res.” section.

Keep reading to learn how Chloe Dionisio, a recent grad from the University of San Francisco, landed an internship with Creative Circle, what she does in her role, and what she thinks you should do to earn an internship too.

—Sean Sebers

In today's edition:

🏆 What earned her the role?

📚 The Res.

📊 What she does

📈 Give us more!

Chloe Dionisio

Marketing Intern

Chloe Dionisio is a Bay Area native pursuing a career in marketing. When she’s not busy being an intern, Chloe spends her free time cooking, reading, and hanging out with her friends in SF. She’s a big movie watcher with a movie social media account on Letterboxd. I’ve actually started using this website since our interview—I’d highly recommend it if movies are your thing.

Chloe also graduated from the University of San Francisco in December of 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in marketing. Just before graduating, Chloe started a marketing internship with Creative Circle, a recruiting and consulting services company. They’re a medium sized company with almost 2,000 employees across offices in the US and Canada. A key service they provide is their ability to connect highly vetted freelancers with companies that need creative talent.

What earned her the role @Creative Circle?

Chloe got her start at Creative Circle through an organization called the Emma Bowen Foundation (EBF). Like other professional development fellowships, EBF connects students with internships and opportunities that you can’t get anywhere else.

EBF is dedicated to helping students of color and women who are interested in content-, business-, and innovation-based roles. Instead of having to compete against 500-1000 other applicants on a LinkedIn job listing, EBF interns can apply to roles knowing that a position was only seen by them. Basically, the EBF applicant pool is significantly smaller and gives everyone a fairer chance to succeed. Resume help, networking opportunities, and other career resources are also provided.

Ironically, Chloe applied to be an EBF fellow/intern through LinkedIn and has been with them for almost two years. During her time with EBF, Chloe has been able to score three internships; one with Discovery Inc. as a marketing intern for the MotorTrend Group, one with Warner Bros. Discovery as an editorial intern, and, of course, one with Creative Circle as a marketing intern.

If you’re interested in learning more about and applying for the Emma Bowen Foundation fellowship/internship, click here.

Experience helps

During her interviews, Chloe’s interviewers were most interested in her digital marketing, blog writing, and blog editing experience. Fortunately for Chloe, her previous internships kept her involved with website design work, social media content creation, and blog writing/editing, so it was easy for her to express what she had already done.

According to Chloe, the crucial element to getting hired at Creative Circle was her ability to connect with her interviewer. The interview quickly turned into a conversation and left a good impression on both parties. In the past, Chloe has had a few interviews that seemed to go well in terms of how she answers questions, but poorly in terms of forming a connection. With this in mind, Chloe could tell that this interview was a smooth one, and that Creative Circle was the right fit for her.

📚 The Res.

What a marketing intern does:

Since Creative Circle is a smaller company than most corporate giants like Warner Bros., Chloe is given more creative liberty to accomplish tasks (which is her favorite part). As a part-time marketing intern, Chloe’s time is roughly split between three areas; working on website blogs, creating company resources, and managing social media content.

Website Blogs

Like any good brand or company, Creative Circle wants to post content that is highly relevant and useful. When a new topic is trending, Chloe is usually asked to write about it or create a proposal for a freelance writer to work on. A big part of her role is brainstorming with her boss on what kinds of things they could write about in a blog, and then creating the right parameters for a freelancer to work with. Chloe also does a ton of editing on these drafts to make sure they’re polished before an upload.

Company Resources

Another part of Chloe’s role is giving feedback, advice, and ideas when a project needs to be completed. For one project in particular, she helped turn Creative Circle’s end of year report—a traditionally dry company magazine—into a robust asset. This report includes info on current industry trends and events, company insights, and other useful data. To put the plan together, Chloe organized the different pieces of content the magazine would need to include and tracked down all the designers, writers, and other employees they needed help from. Her project management skills were definitely put to the test on this one.

Social Media Content

The bulk of her social media management comes from creating polls on LinkedIn to generate engagement. This type of content on LinkedIn is actually super successful because it gives people a chance to share about their lives—and who’d pass up an opportunity to talk about themselves? Not me. Seriously, though, Chloe creates polls with meaningful questions that ask professionals to share career advice or job tips. The occasional silly/fun question is thrown in the mix too.

Keeping a reputation for being an active brand can be tough, but Chloe keeps it up by reposting articles to Creative Circle’s socials. She spends a good portion of her time researching articles and posts on freelancing and other related topics. Harvard Business Review is one of her go-to sources for articles.

If you’re interested in learning more from or connecting with Chloe, feel free to reach out to her through LinkedIn here, or watch her interview here!

📈Give Us More!

💼Want to hear more from Chloe?

• Watch the full interview on our YouTube channel linked here.

🔍Connect with Chloe!

• Connect with her on LinkedIn here.

📢Advice from Chloe:

If you haven't already, please look into college career resource groups like the Emma Bowen Foundation. I know there’s also one called the T. Howard Foundation. Those are resources for students of color and women that are out there. One of the hardest things going to a school like USF is it doesn't necessarily have the biggest name recognition that larger colleges have, and it's hard to get your foot in the door at internships, so really utilizing those connections that you have or building a network through a foundation can be really valuable.

My second piece of advice is—and I know everybody says this and it's kind of annoying to say sometimes—working smarter not harder. I know that it may look better to just apply to like fifteen internships in one day on LinkedIn, but that is definitely working harder. I would just make sure that you really understand which companies you're applying to or how you're applying to them. I know people who really utilize that alumni button or that they really engage in coffee chats of people with backgrounds they really like. A lot of the time, I’ll talk to people who have internships that I want to have, or to people with careers that I’m interested in. I'll even go to the career fair events at my school—I've definitely gotten a lot of interviews from those places

And also, just pay it forward. I'm always open to people who take an interest in me or like what I'm doing or who just want to talk to me about anything. I'm always open to getting coffee with someone or just messaging through LinkedIn and chatting about my experience. I think creating those open spaces for people is really helpful. —Chloe Dionisio

*Edited for clarity*