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Company: xMedia Targeted Communications

Position: Busy e-biz entrepreneur seeking superstar apprentice!

Responsibilites and Tasks:
Ok, so you’re in school, and you don’t want to work in some stiff and boring corporate office with bad coffee when you graduate, do you? Have you read “The 4-Hour Workweek\ and want to learn how it’s done? I’ve been working remotely as a private Internet consultant to a Fortune 500 company for 5+ years and need some help.

As my apprentice, you’ll gain valuable hands-on experience in:
- creating project schedules and gantt charts
- extracting and organizing data
- QA (quality assurance) and QA management
- overseeing front-end and back-end tasks
- techniques for remote and offshore project management

Required Knoweledge:
Does this sound like you?
- fast learner
- proactive
- efficient
- task and deadline-oriented
- detail-minded
- friendly and upbeat, with a “can do” attitude

Your skills:
- excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- good to advanced knowledge of MS Word and Excel (MS Project a bonus)
- business, computer science or communications background preferred

Compensation:
This position is unpaid, but there are some cool perks:
- Coffee, lunches and transportation to meetings
- Flexible hours (A 10 hour a week minimum is required with at least a 3 month commitment)
- Ability to create your own schedule
- A cool, collaborative environment in the Mile End that you will like having occasional in-person meetings at (check out http://www.station-c.com )
- Knowledge and skills to succeed in IT management, e-business and/or entrepreneurship
- Possibility for a paid position at the end of your internship
- Recommendations and contacts for jobs upon graduation

How to apply:
Think this is the gig for you? Email your CV/resume attached in a Word document to: aleece@xmedia.tv.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you!

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