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What are good tasks to assign to an intern/trainee? (wfh)
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Hey there!
I'll be working with an intern/trainee for the next 3 months. He is 17 years old and wants to learn about marketing. Since I'm the Social Media Manager my supervisor wants me to take care of our intern most of the time, but I'm not sure which tasks are a good choice for a teenager. Another problem is that we're a remote company, so he won't be able to sit next to me and watch my while I'm doing my work. I will be around and able to ask his questions / schedule calls, though.
I do have a few ideas so far, but I'd appreciate your input!
- Explaining how Instagram Hashtags work and asking him to research them for different types of content
- Researching (Content for website, Tweets we can share etc)
- Collecting specific posts from bad actors and asking him how he'd answer them + explain how to handle things like that
- Researching competitors and collecting ideas for our social media channels
- Showing him how I schedule posts
- Researching Tiktok / Byte and checking if it makes sense to create a company account / check which kind of content can work (he has 20k tiktok followers).
- Researching blog topics
I was also thinking of asking him to learn about the company during the first day. What we're selling, how the products work and who our customers are. This way it might be easier for him to research, but I have no clue if that's enough to fill a 8 hour day/week. Maybe it makes sense to assign him a specific project every week, doing his own research and building something? I've trained a lot of co-workers in the last years, but I've never worked with a intern/trainee around this age, so I'm worried I'm asking too much.
Personally I manage Instagram, FB, Twitter, YouTube for 3 product lines and I'm in charge of our newsletters and content for our blog (which will be written by a writer). So that's the area I can show him. Any ideas are much appreciated!
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May 31, 2020 at 02:16PM