Oh hi, my name's Jermaine
Exactly two months ago and two days I came to Versantus to work as an intern. Here are my experiences, what I’ve learnt and where I’d love to go next. I hope this blog post serves as a great introductory reason for you to reach out to Versantus or maybe try and get an internship with them as well.
The reason for interning at Versantus
A year previous to my internship, I had enjoyed a week’s worth of work experience as a year 12 student. During this week I was given my first taster of working with a larger agency and completing exercise tasks. Mostly, orientated around design. During that week, and to my limited memory, I made some advertising pieces as practice and created a figma prototype of a quiz before I then fully coded it out and demonstrated it in a presentation before the staff of Versantus.
Not several months later I was considering starting my agency, and I began researching and developing my own skill set around this idea. However, there was a piece missing. So, after the completion of my A-level exams, I reached out to Versantus and secured an internship to learn more about this new goal.
My experience
The first days of any job, internship or work experience are always set on getting to speed and that’s exactly what I did. My amazing colleagues helped me feel right at home and I was given the task of being a fresh set of eyes for Versantus. Evaluating different improvements of their website in the marketing area. This led to what felt like a very fast two months of project after project. Out of the 19 projects I did, these were my 3 favourites:
1) Competitor Analysis Report
Value-wise, this was one of the most valuable and important reports I’ve done. It wasn’t just the report itself but the skills and learning I did to be able to do this. From evaluating backlink profiles in technical SEO to evaluating the practices of content SEO, this report helped me gain insight into the local competitors around Versantus. This helped me form an idea of what I wanted my agency to look like. I’d like to thank Matt and Luke, particularly for all of their insights into SEO and marketing and their continuous help on marketing-related projects.
2) Interactive contact selection screen
This was coding heavy and helped me pick up technical skills using HTML, CSS and Javascript. Whilst also utilising AI to help teach myself and write the code. This was a great experience seeing my hard work over a week unfold into a mini experience the user could potentially use should this be implemented.
3) Custom GPT campaign builder
With the rise of AI content and ability, I was tasked to create an automatic blog builder using AI to be linked to social media. After receiving a design and demo of a one-time prompt to do this. I set out to create a custom GPT that does this time over time with SEO knowledge and with insights from Versantus and their blog articles.
I gained a lot of experience and ability from this internship and I highly recommend working with this brilliant set of people who I had the pleasure to meet.
Did I face challenges?
Many-a-time I struggled with coding and logical errors in my projects, particularly a contact form. Implementing JavaScript security measures such as reCAPTCHA is easy. As long as you’re able to use JavaScript… Which is one of the difficulties I had to overcome whilst here. Most of my projects had a steep learning curve and it’s exciting to have challenges that do.
I even had the opportunity to undertake SEO courses whilst here and learnt in depth about technical SEO and website crawling.
In conclusion
Next as part of my journey, I will be going to university. And creating my agency which I spent my time at Versantus developing outside of work.
If you're looking for an internship that aligns with your passion for technology, Versantus most definitely provides the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge projects, while giving you the ability to learn from industry specialists.