Need an intern? Vega delivers top students with real-world skills

Undergraduate Internships
Both BA Creative Brand Communication final year students and Brand Leadership Honours students are required to successfully complete a one-month internship before they graduate.

These internships aim to create unique opportunities for students to experience real-life working situations within a company or agency and for employers to engage with young creative talent. They also provide the ideal opportunity for both the employer and the intern to form a long-term relationship. Our students often secure full-time positions in the same company or agency where they completed their internships

The World is Their Oyster
A wide range of careers are available to our students upon completion of their degrees and internships.

Our BA Creative Brand Communications excel when given an opportunity in the following areas: Creative consultant, merchandiser, cartoonist, illustrator (technical, medical, editorial), commercial photographer, documentary photographer, photo-journalist, archivist, film maker, sound engineer, 2D animator, 3D animator, entrepreneur, exhibition designer, curator, artist, graphic designer, digital designer, multi media designer, copywriter, creative writer, journalist, art director, digital finisher, researcher, screenwriter, idea originator, set designer, information architect and website designer.

Vega Brand Leadership Honours graduates make their mark as: Brand consultants, brand managers, marketing managers, brand architects, strategic planners, product managers, account/client service executives, media planners, logistics managers, traffic controllers, event marketers, event publicists, brand contact managers, communications managers, retail marketers, media strategists, business entrepreneurs, portfolio managers, human resources managers, business managers and operations managers.

The BA Creative Brand Communication students will be available to undertake their internships from 3 - 27 November 2009, while the Brand Leadership Honours students will be available from 19 October - 13 November 2009.

Imagination Labs Internships
Vega's Imagination Lab programme is a year-long course designed to equip previously disadvantaged students with workplace skills, as well as to facilitate student internships.

Registered with the SAQA as a Level 4 Certificate in Advertising, the Imagination Labs focus on personal exploration and creative experimentation. Students are exposed to the workplace through an internship programme supported by agencies including: Jupiter Drawing Room, DRAFT FCB, TBWA Hunt Lascaris, Old Shanghai Firecracker Factory, as well as Primedia Unlimited.

By employing Imagination Lab interns, companies and agencies can take advantage of the unique resources these students provide, while contributing to transformation of the sector.

Since its inception, more than 700 students have graduated from the Imagination Lab, most of them going on to employment in fulltime positions.

If you're interested in finding out more about hiring an intern from Vega, please contact Renata Tressel at renata@vegaschool.com or (011) 521 4600. For more information about Vega go to www.vegaschool.com.

Vega The Brand Communications School is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd., Reg. no. 1987/004754/07, which is registered with the Department of Education as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997, registration certificate no. 2007/HE07/002 and provisionally registered until 31 December 2014, with the Department of Education as a private further education and training institution under the Further Education and Training Colleges Act, 2006, registration no. 2009/FE07/003.