ERS Internship: The First 3 Days

By Jim Lewis, Wenxin (Helen) Qie and Lauren Cohen

Each and every summer months at ERS we welcome interns into our corporation. They play the position of a Business Analyst and find out several facets of our business. It has been incredibly rewarding for both equally the interns and ERS. We get a refreshing perspective on promoting and consumer engagement in addition to tangible written content and exploration. Interns obtain working experience performing in a business natural environment, establishing comfortable abilities, and having a sense of no matter whether retail/wholesale or analytics is a excellent match for their future careers.

Likely the most essential benefit interns get is seeing how their efforts can pay out off in the actual entire world. They get to create a expert demeanor as they give facts and make displays to our shoppers. While the pandemic pressured us to reconfigure the internship software to function remotely, it continue to performs exceptionally nicely. This calendar year we welcomed Helen and Lauren, 2 extremely dazzling and energetic University of Florida college students. They begun just 3 times ago, but I think they are already having a perception of what ERS is all about. I questioned them to create about their extremely brief practical experience so much. This is what they experienced to say:

Wenxin (Helen) Qie

The very first 3 days assisted us construct a good basis for comprehending the market, corporation, and assignments we will be working on this summer. Those people introductory sessions could appear to be to acquire up a sizable portion of the 8-week internship system, but it is a necessary and satisfying move that assures the easy operation of the adhering to months. Even while this internship is online due to the pandemic, ERS currently has loaded experience in managing assignments remotely and attempts its greatest to match the quality of the in-human being internship experience from prior many years.

A single point that stood out to me is the team’s expertise and passion for what they are doing. Jim Lewis, the CEO, normally unsparingly expresses his delight and admiration for his group and firmly thinks that “people are everything.” It is a tiny workforce, nevertheless, the division of perform is distinct with each and every workforce member becoming charged with certain tasks: at the similar time, everybody on the team is always eager to offer assistance whenever it is desired. The past factor you will generally listen to at the end of every meeting is “Let me know if you have any thoughts. I am generally joyful to help.”

Immediately after examining reports and case scientific tests, I am amazed by how adaptable yet depth oriented ERS is. ERS generates studies and action ideas for their clients but consider it to an additional amount by customizing the provider to fulfill every client’s requires. In addition to ERS’ proprietary analytic tools, spreadsheets are utilized usually. I never ever understood how practical and subtle they can be until eventually I started off understanding from the team. The a great number of numbers on spreadsheets can be too much to handle, but anyone on the team understands how to crack them down. They can visualize them by connecting them to genuine-environment situations. The plain numbers start off to explain to a story and guide the reader to the answers. It is without doubt a frantic begin with a lot of info flooding into my brain, but it is also interesting to see how the magic is done and used throughout this studying course of action. There are various jobs built for us throughout this summer time, and I am enthusiastic to get the job done the magic with the group!

Lauren Cohen

Immediately after getting only interned at Improved Retail Solutions for 3 times, I can previously explain to that my summer is heading to be comprehensive of laughs and pleasure, but most importantly- understanding. I realized immediately after conference Jim and the ERS team that I would develop to be even additional passionate about the retail business than I currently was. I just did not comprehend that it would commence on day 1! Helen (my co-intern) and I began to master proper off the bat, which is anything that is plainly built into the
organization lifestyle. It is distinct that the team pushes every other to be superior, delivers constructive suggestions, and certainly supports every single other. With out that atmosphere at ERS, I would not have learned so a great deal in 3 days.

ERS will work with suppliers and manufacturers to help them make much better business selections centered on marketplace and inner data for the respective businesses. Every enterprise is fully exceptional, so using the time to thoroughly comprehend the desires, aspirations, and tradition of every single shopper has grow to be a typical exercise. The team will take the time to reveal to each individual customer their suggestions on strengthening not only their short-expression monetary objectives, but also their prolonged-time period strategic and
cultural aims. They do this all through analyzing knowledge.