4 Month Digital Advertising Agency Internship May Lead to Full-Time Employment
The Aber Group is offering a four month, paid, full-time internship for smart, driven, and enthusiastic people who want to start their career in digital marketing. The start date would be ASAP.
Please Note: This is not a summer internship and is intended for recent graduates. This internship program may lead to full time employment at The Aber Group and is only open to people who require an internship to complete their studies or have already graduated. Seventy-five percent of our full-time staff started as interns.
The right candidate will be:
- A creative problem-solver with strong analytical skills
- Motivated to learn about digital marketing, online media buying and search engine marketing
- Happy in a fast-paced environment, working on a variety of digital media projects and clients
- A capable, no-nonsense team-player
Intern responsibilities:
- Research, build & execute digital media plans
- Project manage digital campaigns ensuring media plans launch on time and deliver on budget
- Produce campaign progress reports to use for optimization and client updates
- Optimize digital media and paid search campaigns
- Consistently delight our clients with your excellent client service skills
- Draft social media and search ad copy based on best practices and client briefing
Essential skills:
- Excellent organizational, time and self-management skills
- Exceptional interpersonal and client relation skills
- Strong attention-to-detail, precise execution and follow up
- Flexible; able to quickly switch focus and easily adapt to change
- Proficient in MS Office applications, especially Excel
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Understand marketing principles
- Able to think strategically
- Academic or work experience analyzing data to uncover trends
Your cover letter and resume must highlight the specific qualifications you have that would make you a great fit for this position. Due to the high volume of responses, we will contact only those candidates that we select for an interview.
All staff must pass criminal and personal reference checks, as well as a series of in-depth interviews as a pre-condition of employment.
Contract length: 4 months, ASAP start
Salary: $2,600.00 per month
Please email your cover letter and resume to resumes@abergroup.com
About The Aber Group:
Now in our 17th year, The Aber Group is a Toronto-based, independent, digital media and search engine marketing firm that works with not for profit, arts, post-secondary education, and for-profit clients developing direct response and brand-building campaigns. We develop hundreds of digital media campaigns each year and know first-hand about the ever-changing digital marketing landscape – search engine marketing, online and mobile media, programmatic media, native ads, content partnerships, mobile apps, video, social network advertising, connected TV, digital audio and out of home and beyond. Our staff members are Google Partners certified in Search, Display, Video, Google Analytics, and are Facebook, Snapchat and Microsoft Ads certified as well.
Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Snapchat recognize The Aber Group as one of a small group of top-tier agencies that delivers exceptional results for clients, adheres to best practices, and manages campaigns at a superior level of competency and professionalism. Our status with these important media platforms provides our clients with extra attention when it comes to optimization, campaign review and problem solving, preferred access to beta tests, dedicated support, research and insights, and on-going training and skill development for our teams.
For decades, our executives have helped guide and lead the Canadian marketing industry’s adoption and understanding of digital marketing. We have been the Canadian Marketing Association’s (CMA) digital media and search partner for over eight years. We are also active members and thought leaders for the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, with our president serving as Vice Chair of the Board for nine years, and our VP Search and Technology chairing the Search Council. All Aber Group account directors and managers are involved with CMA and IAB committees and councils. We also teach digital, search engine marketing, and integrated marketing courses for The Canadian Marketing Association (CMA), Government of Ontario and various clients and groups. Our president recently taught a course on Paid Digital Media at George Brown College.