Storage Scholars Internship Program: A Launchpad for Future Leaders
Storage Scholars, known for its appearance on Shark Tank and partnerships with major moving companies, has carved a niche in providing convenient moving and storage solutions for college students nationwide. Beyond its core services, Storage Scholars is also dedicated to empowering talented student interns by equipping them with essential business and marketing skills for their future careers. The Storage Scholars internship program offers a unique blend of real-world experience, mentorship, and entrepreneurial opportunities, setting interns up for success in the storage industry and beyond.
Comprehensive Training and Goal-Oriented Tasks
The Storage Scholars internship program centers around an intensive training on a learning management system. Interns are guided through weekly modules covering various aspects of the business, including backend operations and client-facing interactions. This approach ensures interns become familiar with high-level information and specific, complex processes.
The LMS modules are structured to be manageable, but also fast-paced. Each week, interns meet with executive team members to review their goals and individual and team metrics for success. This ensures that interns have tangible goals to meet.
Mentorship Opportunities with Experienced Professionals
Storage Scholars interns have access to mentorship opportunities with experienced professionals. For example, Georgetown interns have a unique opportunity to work alongside Clare from HQ. Clare started as an intern and worked her way up as the Head of Recruitment at Storage Scholars. While Clare has a hand in working with all of the interns in some capacity, the interns at Georgetown University work directly with Clare at times, as she, too, is a student there.
Interns meet weekly with executive members of the team to help them with each aspect of running the business, from training and modules to hands-on marketing, outreach, and even managing their own teams right on campus. They are never left to navigate the company on their own but instead have a personal coach within reach as they grow and develop into future business leaders.
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Encouraging Initiative and Innovation
While Storage Scholars provides interns with the necessary tools, they are encouraged to develop their own project ideas and initiatives. This fosters a sense of ownership and allows interns to apply their unique skills and perspectives to the business. When Ben at Duke realized how eco-conscious the student population was on his campus, he knew he needed to hone in on that aspect of the business. He went on to educate himself about the topic. He read up on the sustainability blog, reached out to his mentors, and searched for the sources and distributors of our materials to provide his customers with the information they were most interested in.
Fostering Team Building and Communication
Recognizing the importance of teamwork, Storage Scholars encourages interns within each cohort to get to know each other. Working together and running a branch of the business requires building a solid work relationship. Our SDSU intern team was eager to establish that sense of team and rapport with each other from day 1. They set a place, and a time, communicated effectively with one another and devised a plan. As a result, they have become a super strong cohort.
Encouraging Interns to Use Their Voice
Storage Scholars believes everyone brings unique knowledge, skills, and perspective that makes us who we are. All voices are not just welcomed but encouraged to be a part of the decisions and direction of the organization. At Storage Scholars, egos are left at the door, wins are celebrated as a team, and learning never stops.
Connecting with the Community
As interns at Storage Scholars, students are encouraged to overcome this fear and connect with potential customers, parents, and even administration through their outreach activities within their campus. This could involve hanging flyers, tabling at campus events, speaking to organizations, or just striking up conversations about the business. Interns are the boots on the ground marketing and the success of the business will depend on the connection that interns have with the community.
Promoting Collaboration
Collaboration is an important life skill, and we're empowering our interns to do just that! Each intern has a specific role and set of responsibilities, but they only work if, collectively, the group comes together to achieve their common goal. By setting up their own table with merchandise and information, The Babson College cohort was able to create a visible presence on campus and engage with other students who may not have been aware of their business before. By working together towards a common goal, students can build stronger relationships with one another while also achieving their objectives.
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Flexible Work Hours
Storage Scholars understands the demands of college life and offers flexible work hours to accommodate interns' class schedules. Students can work around their class schedules and still make it to class. Hang fliers on their way to class, create their team agenda between classes, and schedule meetings when they have free time.
Real-World Experience with Tangible Outcomes
The intern team at Babson College knew that the tight-knit college would benefit from door-to-door marketing! So that's what they did. They knew social media was more straightforward and less intimidating. Still, they were fearless in jumping into a new (ok, well, old school) marketing. We loved that they didn't think twice about how to spend their weekend-and it paid! They got to talk face to face to customers, sign up some students, and show the campus the face of their business.
Encouraging Creativity and Problem-Solving
Storage Scholars provides plenty of training, but students are given a unique opportunity to become 'out-of-the-box problem solvers". At NC State, interns were tired of the old flier tasks. They created their own "flier" of sorts-a spray-painted message inside of a tunnel on campus.
Embodying a Growth Mindset
At Storage Scholars, we believe in fostering a growth mindset among our interns. We encourage our interns to be gritty and do the things that no one else wants to do. We provide these growth opportunities to learn from their mistakes as they navigate their way through the internship program. By instilling a growth mindset, we aim to equip our interns with the resilience and adaptability needed to succeed in their future careers.
A Fun and Engaging Environment
Storage Scholars empowers its interns to love their role! At Franklin and Marshall, the interns didn't want to spend the whole day hanging flyers to spread the word, so they got creative and had fun with some chalking around campus. It brought some entertainment to their efforts and piqued some curiosity at the same time.
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Leveraging Social Media Expertise
College students know social media better than the rest of us. They grew up on it and know what works and doesn't when marketing to college students. We empower our interns to take off and run with their expertise. Many of our interns have taken on an entire Instagram business page to promote their branch on their campus. At the same time, others have created their own commercials to broadcast to various organizations and student clubs.
Developing Entrepreneurial Skills
Interns will be running their own branch of our company on their campus. They will have creative freedom and control over finances. They will do the hiring for their team and will drive the success of their company. Storage Scholars was founded on entrepreneurial dreams and we are excited to share that passion with the next generation. We empower all of our interns to learn the ins an outs of running a company and they will leave with the skills necessary to start their own. There's nothing more empowering than that.
Additional Benefits of a Storage Scholars Internship
Beyond the skills and experience gained, Storage Scholars internships offer other significant benefits:
On-Campus Work: Interns work right on campus, running their own branch of the company.
Recruit Friends: Interns have the opportunity to recruit their friends as student movers.
Free Lunch: Hard work is rewarded with free lunch during busy periods.
Run the Show: Interns have creative freedom and are empowered to make decisions and implement their ideas.
High Level of Connectedness: Interns develop strong connections within their college campus.
Paid Internship: Storage Scholars internships are paid, helping students earn money while they learn.
Resume Booster: The hands-on experience gained is invaluable on resumes, making interns stand out to future employers.
Networking Opportunities: Interns have the opportunity to work with a variety of people, from fellow students to business professionals.
Career Advancement: Interns have the opportunity to work their way up the ladder within Storage Scholars.
Available Internship Positions
Storage Scholars offers a variety of internship positions to suit different interests and skill sets:
- Operations Management Interns: These interns are the main point of contact for all things related to the core service offering, learning how to think, act, and execute like a business owner.
- Marketing Interns: These interns are the main point of contact for all things PR, learning how to think, act, and execute like a Director of Marketing.
- Operations Coordinator: This position involves hands-on work, including face-to-face interactions with customers, managing inventory, loading and unloading belongings, and potentially operating trucks.
- Warehouse Coordinator: This position focuses on warehouse responsibilities, including storing and organizing belongings, managing inventory, and creating facility maps.
- Seasonal Customer Experience Specialist: This role is crucial in connecting the needs of Storage Scholars' clients to the entire company, handling both sales and customer support.
The Storage Scholars Mission
Storage Scholars strives to be the leader in student storage and moving and is equally fired up to develop the next generation of business leaders. That all begins with our dynamic internship program. We provide college students with opportunities to develop professionally and personally. Week after week, as they work on real projects with tangible impact, our interns learn to take ownership of their work, become more confident in their abilities, and prepare for their future careers.
Clare Mulholland: A Success Story
Clare Mulholland, Head of Recruitment at Storage Scholars, is a prime example of the opportunities available within the company. She started as an intern and worked her way up to a leadership position. Her experience demonstrates the tenacity, persistence, and grit that Storage Scholars embodies.
Core Values
Storage Scholars operates on a set of core values that guide its actions and decisions:
- No Bar is too High: Seeing limitless potential and driving towards the abyss of the unknown.
- Elite: Doing all things at the highest caliber possible.
- Gritty: Pushing through every obstacle to the limit and then pushing even harder, past the limit.
- Tenacious: Persevering through the darkest storm and not wavering.
- Out of the Box (Problem Solvers): Creating uncommon solutions to common problems.
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