Tomorrow on the Young Female Entrepreneurs live stream, YFE welcomes the Intern Queen, Lauren Berger for a conversation on creating a successful internship program, hiring your first intern, and making sure everyone benefits long term in the process. Make sure you show up live to get your questions answer. Lauren is a young, female entrepreneur herself and is the expert on internships, you won’t want to miss it! (click to tweet)
Details
When: Thursday, May 10th at 6p/9e (add to calendar)
Where: ovaleye.tv/live
How: Show up live to meet other entrepreneurial women in their 20s and 30s while submitting questions for our guest, Lauren.
About our Guest
Business Week Magazine named Lauren Berger number 5 on their annual list of Young Entrepreneurs 25 Under 25. America Online says, “If you are going to college and wondering what you are going to do this summer – you need to look her up.” Mobile Youth has placed her in the top 10 Youth Marketing Minds of 2010.
Lauren Berger is CEO of InternQueen.com, an online internship destination that helps students find and apply for internships while also educating them on how to make the most of their experiences.
Berger grew up in Clearwater, Florida and participated in 15 internships during her 4 years of college, hence the title “Intern Queen”. Berger earned a degree in Organizational Business Communications at the University of Central Florida and interned for top-notch companies across the country such as MTV, FOX, BWR Public Relations, and NBC.
Lauren applied her knowledge of the industry to her first job post-college at Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills, California. She told everyone at the company of her business ambitions and it caught the eye of Hollywood Producer, Marshall Herskovitz (The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, Defiance). Berger worked with Herskovitz in 2008, as he helped her get the business off the ground. In 2009, she went off on her own and formed, www.internqueen.com.
Today, Berger is an author, international speaker, spokesperson, and runs www.internqueen.com. Berger works with over 1,000 employers worldwide, connecting them with some of the most ambitious high school and college interns on the planet. Berger’s website reaches over 80,000 different students, parents, and employers each month. She has connected thousands of students with the internships of their dreams. Berger has spoken to thousands of high school & college students at over 50 colleges & universities in 20 different states. Berger’s book, ALL WORK NO PAY, was released January 3, 2012 worldwide. She was recently feature on The Today Show, Fox & Friends, and Bloomberg.com.
