Internship Program

Click HERE if you want to be a Tween/Teen Intern: Writer, Social Media Manager, Graphic Designer, Virtual Assistant, Affiliate Marketer, or part of the Audio/Video Crew!

In school you learn reading, writing, science and math, but you don’t usually learn about finance, business and making money. By interning with Raising CEO Kids, you will not only learn about being a youth entrepreneur, you will gain valuable experience that will assist you in securing future educational opportunities as well as getting a job or starting your own business.

The Raising CEO Kids website is in large part run by actual tweens, teens and 20-somethings! You could be one of them!

Scroll down for more information about each internship.

Raising CEO Kids Mission:

Use real life experiences to help tweens and teens become successful young entrepreneurs and give parents the “best practices” and resources to support them in raising CEO kids.
Create Excellent Opportunities for raising business-minded kids through mentoring, enjoyable education, recommendations to resources, and exciting hands-on educational activities in financial literacy and entrepreneurship.

Our Principles:

Instilling confidence in children through successful experiential learning is our number one priority.
We believe that tweens and teens can be successful in discovering their gifts and talents and can turn them into profitable streams of income.
We know that each individual is unique in their talents and needs.We use a successful and proprietary format, and then work hard to personalize each internship to meet the specific needs of each child.

What Makes Raising CEO Kids Different:

Parents AND Kids: We are real parents as well as real kids, creating and finding content on young entrepreneurship/business, financial literacy, parenting, and more.
Authentic: Everything shared on Raising CEO Kids is based on real experience instead of theory!
Unique: We have very definitive twist on youth entrepreneurship and parenting because we combine BOTH instead of focusing on one or the other.
All-Around-Support: We are one of the few companies that supports not only young entrepreneurs but also the parents raising them! We have webinars, videos, online classes, live events, podcasts, and mentoring for parents, teachers, teens, tweens, kids and those supporting young entrepreneurs.
Exclusive: We maintain high standards for the interns we accept into our programs to make sure that they are just as committed to the program as we are.

We are always looking for qualified, inspired and intelligent tweens and teens. We have or are opening up internships in the following categories:

Tween/Teen Writers and Journalists
Tween/Teen Social Media Virtual Assistants/Managers
Tween/Teen Graphic Designers
Tween/Teen Web Designers
Tween/Teen Affiliate Marketers
Tween/Teen Audio/Video Techs

We take applications year-round. We are looking for motivated, interested and fun tween/teen interns. We have two internships that we are currently offering: Writers/Journalists and Social Media Virtual Assistants/Managers. Contact us at InternshipDirector@RaisingCEOKids.com to be put on the waiting list for future internship opportunities.

Why Our Internships Rock

We are an extremely forward thinking company founded by Sarah Cook because she couldn’t find the resources she and her husband needed to raise their kids as entrepreneurs. We love providing the one-stop-resource for the combination of parenting support and entrepreneurship education.

Our interns gain amazing writing and journalism practice and social media marketing experience by interning for Raising CEO Kids. We teach cutting-edge practices for working and learning in a digital environment and offer great experience and best-practices for working in a digital office, which is the future!

In writing the book, The Parents’ Guide to Raising CEO Kids, we discovered that youth unemployment has reached an all time high. We aim to change this statistic by giving tweens/teens valuable “work” experience that will help them build their resume. We will also encourage them in starting their own business rather than relying on someone else to offer them a job.
Resume Building: We know that getting into college is becoming more and more competitive. We strive to give tween/teen interns a strategic advantage to their resume by interning with Raising CEO Kids. For those who are not interested in gaining a collegiate degree, we seek to inspire tween/tween interns to start their own businesses and become CEO Kids.
Letters of Recommendations and Referrals: Dr. Jerry Cook and Sarah Cook often write or give recommendations for interns for other jobs, college applications, scholarships, and programs.
Portfolio Building: For writers/journalists, this is a way to get your name and ideas published. We have many publishers, authors and editors who read our content and request interviews with our writers and experts.

#1 Writer/Journalist Qualifications:

Must be ages 12-18
Can be in Middle School or High School. (If you are older than 18, please contact us for referrals of other internship programs available.)
Must be willing to work virtually for at least 2 hours per week
Must be responsible and willing to learn
We would love someone with a lot of energy, who is forward thinking and wants to express their opinions to help others.
Must have strong writing skills and have a passion for writing articles about business, youth entrepreneurship, finance, or life as a tween/teen entrepreneur.

Writer/Journalist Internship Description:

Writers/Journalists will write at least 2 articles (each between 300 and 700 words) per month on topics of their choice as well as topics assigned by Sarah. This is a creative process and topics are usually discussed and guidelines given before writing begins.
Writers will learn how to write engaging articles for blog audiences and the differences between online and offline articles.
Writers will also do at least 2 hours of work per week working on extensions of their articles through comments and in our teen discussion forums. These hours can be done at any time as long as writing and task deadlines are met…we want you to have a fun summer and be able to do lots of other activities!
Writers will be given access to our teen writer private social network where they will learn about experience marketing articles, cold emailing and how to participate in group writing activities.
Our teen writers work in our virtual office with Google documents and email. They will be given their own email address and have opportunities for creative input on the website as a whole.
Stand-out writers may have the opportunity to join the CEO Kids Advisory Council after their term and/or be invited to stay on for a school-year internship.

#2 Social Media Marketer/Manager Qualifications:

Must be ages 12-18
Can be in High School or College
Must be willing to work virtually for at least 2 hours per week
Must be responsible and willing to learn
We would love someone with a lot of energy, who is forward thinking and wants to express their opinions to help others.
Must have a strong interest in marketing, public relations, advertising, social networking or publishing.

Social Media Marketing/Management Internship Description:

Marketers/Managers work in our virtual office with Google documents and email. They will be given their own email address and have opportunities for creative input on the website as a whole.
Marketers will be given access to our private social network where they will learn about experience with social media marketing, cold emailing, writing press releases, contacting press, and networking with other bloggers.
Marketers will do at least 2 hours of work per week learning new online and social media marketing skills and performing tasks online to build their knowledge of Web 2.0 marketing. This is great experience!
Each week the social media marketing internship will be split up by topic, and Marketers will learn about the skills needed for this area of the business (press releases for example) and then will spend at least 2 hours practicing these skills for http://RaisingCEOKids.com
Marketers will also explore different social networks and other web 2.0 tools to learn about this aspect of online marketing and marketing a website.
Those interested in spotting and reporting trends will also have the opportunity to participate in our online forums.
Stand-out Marketers may have the opportunity to join the CEO Kids Advisory Council after their term and/or be invited to stay on for a school-year internship.

How to Apply:

Send an email to InternshipDirector@RaisingCEOKids.com with the subject “Internship” or simply fill out this form
If you are sending an email, please include:

Name:

Age:

Hometown:

Reason why you are applying for the Social Media Marketing/Management Internship, or the Writer/Journalist Internship: (200-500 words)

If you are applying to be a writer/journalist, please submit one unique writing sample based on one of the following topics: Importance of Youth Entrepreneurship, Your Favorite Social Media Platform and Why, Ways Parents Can Support Kids in Business.

If you are applying to be a social media marketer/manager please submit one paragraph on your favorite marketing campaign this year and why. (A Super Bowl commercial, a high ranked You Tube video) There is no ‘right answer’ to this question, feel free to be creative with it. We want to get to know a little bit more about you and your interests.