We have continuously grown in number and in the way we get things done through the years. Together with this growth is the increasing number of aspiring interns who desire to learn from this industry by joining us.
(Note: We don't provide allowances and laptops to our interns. It is important that you have read our Interns Culture Book for more context before proceeding with this blog article.)
1. Select the internship experience track you want to apply for:
Web and Mobile App Development
You are going to study on our tech stack for 2-3 weeks, after which you will be assigned to be part of a project delivery team. As part of the team, you will be observing, learning, and working with Symph developers, designers, and a project manager, on Symph web and mobile app development projects.
QA Technical
You will experience testing Symph products— web apps, mobile apps, and more— by coding. You will be tasked to assure consistent product quality by developing and enforcing automated testing software.
Internal Technical Operations
You will be working on the development of Symph’s internal operating system. You will be given technical tasks to fix, improve, or add to current Symph operations tools to optimize its functionality and effectiveness to the entire company.
UI/UX Design
You will be working alongside the Symph design team and have experience working on web and mobile apps or Symph's very own products. You will also experience working closely with project managers/product managers and developers.
Project Management
You will be partnered with a team project manager who you will assist in handling projects. You will be immersed in management tasks like making sure a project’s specifications are followed, project timeline is on schedule, communicating with the project delivery team (Symph designers and developers) and other stakeholders.
Entrepreneurship
You will serve as a client mainly of internal projects like Symph’s web apps or systems. As the client of the project, you will lead the assurance of project execution and quality, and you will be the one mainly communicating feedback and suggestions for iterations between the Symph executive team and the project delivery team. If you are a person of ideas and are willing to do what it takes to make them a reality, this is probably for you.
Marketing Automation
On the technical side of marketing, you will experience automating recurring marketing efforts and sales pipelines. You will also experience the essentials of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and execute SEO-related actionable items for Symph.
QA Testing
You will experience doing Quality Assurance tests on Symph products— web apps, mobile apps, and the like. Your experience and feedback on the product will then be the data collected and analyzed for the product’s development team to fix bugs, iterate on features, and introduce new ideas.
Internal Non-technical Operations
You will help manage compliance of company operations needing the cooperation of the entire Symph team. This would mainly be tasks on communicating with the Symph team for reminders on compliance, gathering feedback, and relaying this information to the company executives.
Sales
You will be part of the Sales team where you will help the sales executives on managing the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) pipeline. You will learn how clients/ consumers think, behave, and how we as the service provider should collaborate with our clients to make sure we provide beneficial value to their companies.
Liaison Officer
You will primarily assist the Admin and Finance teams with administrative and finance-related tasks. You will also assist the production team to maximize the productivity of the whole team.
Marketing Video Editing
You will get the chance to edit videos for Symph's marketing and products, like websites, with the marketing team. Grow your video editing skills with the help of Symph's expert video editor. Also, you get to incorporate Artificial Intelligence in the video editing process.
Marketing Graphics Design
You will have the opportunity to design graphic assets for Symph's marketing and products, like websites, with the marketing team. At the same time, your graphic design skills will be enhanced with feedback and guidance from Symph designer experts. Plus, you will learn how to use graphic design in line with marketing strategies such as getting leads and more!
Marketing Copywriting
You will be writing content for Symph and our products (e.g. social media captions, blog articles, etc). You might be working with team members doing social media marketing and graphic design as you implement the content strategy.
Social Media Marketing
Along with the marketing team, you will manage Symph social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Youtube, Medium) in accordance with the overall marketing strategy. This includes the creation of the social media content schedule, executing that schedule, sometimes creating the content that will be posted, and then analyzing the insights and impacts of those social media marketing efforts.
Events
As part of the marketing effort, you will help organize community events Symph is involved in like tech meetups, design workshops, and entrepreneurship seminars. You will work with Symph team members who are active community leaders like the Google Developers Group (GDG) – Cebu community manager, Google Business Group (GBG) – Cebu, Startup Weekend facilitators, and more.
Business Development
You will identify and look for sales leads, pitch our products to new clients/leads, maintain a good working relationship with new contacts, communicate new product developments to prospective clients, and oversee the writing of marketing literature.
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2. Prepare a Pecha Kucha video as part of the application. Take a look at this example for inspiration. Then fill out one of these forms according to the internship experience track you have selected:
(Web and Mobile App Development, QA Technical, Internal Technical Operations, UI/UX Design, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Automation)
(QA Testing, Internal Non-technical operations, Liaison Officer)
(Marketing Video Editing, Marketing Graphics Design, Marketing Copywriting, Social Media Marketing, Events)
(Business Development)
3. Our team will review your application and reply within the week to either decline your application or accept you as our intern.
I've applied but I haven't heard back from you. What do I do?
Did you follow all the instructions above? Please double check.
If you followed all the instructions above, wait for 24 hours (factor in weekends and holidays). Feel free to stalk our social media accounts while waiting. If we haven’t responded back, please do send us a follow up email at join@symph.co.
If you have any inquiry that is not answered by this blog post, please send us a message- direct messages to our social media accounts will do. We are looking forward to your application and we can’t wait for you to be part of the team!
