{"id":2924,"date":"2015-03-18T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T15:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T22:19:16","slug":"compete-for-a-wildfang-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/2015\/03\/18\/compete-for-a-wildfang-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"Compete for a Wildfang internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3013\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/files\/2015\/03\/wildfang-one.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3013\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/files\/2015\/03\/wildfang-one-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Emma McIlroy explains the WF Intern Challenge to College of Business students. Emma McIlroy explains the WF Intern Challenge to College of Business students.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/494\/files\/2015\/03\/wildfang-one-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/494\/files\/2015\/03\/wildfang-one-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/494\/files\/2015\/03\/wildfang-one-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emma McIlroy explains the WF Intern Challenge to College of Business students.<br \/>Emma McIlroy explains the WF Intern Challenge to College of Business students.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Emma McIlroy, co-founder and CEO of tomboy-style clothing retailer Wildfang, was on campus Feb. 26 to invite students from multiple College of Business disciplines to compete for a pair of paid 10-week internships at the Portland-based startup.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline is April 14 to enter the WF Intern Challenge. The challenge is actually five separate challenges that students can choose from depending on their major, expertise and experience.<\/p>\n<p>Basic details are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design and merchandising students are asked to create four to six pieces for Wildfang\u2019s fall\/holiday 2015 Tomboy collection, each retailing for less than $100.<\/li>\n<li>Marketing students can either come up with a five-day run-of-show social media campaign, or identify two key consumer moments in 2015 and show a plan \u201cto activate them for Wildfang.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Business students\u2019 mission is to predict where Wildfang might be in five years and give three examples of how the company could potentially modify its business and\/or operating models.<\/li>\n<li>Operations students are tasked with figuring out the metrics that matter most to a business like Wildfang and how they might trend over the next two years, and providing three initiatives to improve in some or all of those areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nine students attended McIlroy\u2019s presentation in Austin Hall. Wildfang is hoping to hire two interns, each of whom will receive a $1,000 stipend and course credit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re looking for people with a passion for learning and understanding our brand and our consumers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the intern challenge, visit http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1MvQ9re.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the company, go to www.wildfang.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma McIlroy, co-founder and CEO of tomboy-style clothing retailer Wildfang, was on campus Feb. 26 to invite students from multiple College of Business disciplines to compete for a pair of paid 10-week internships at the Portland-based startup. The deadline is April 14 to enter the WF Intern Challenge. The challenge is actually five separate challenges &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/2015\/03\/18\/compete-for-a-wildfang-internship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compete for a Wildfang internship&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138466],"tags":[507,138493,138492],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-success-center-2","tag-internships","tag-tomboy","tag-wildfang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}