Leo Burnett Internships

In addition to work, every Wednesday there is a Lunch and Learn, were the agency has top executives speak to interns. Also, Leo Burnett takes interns to a baseball games, the Taste of Chicago, the Chicago Architectural Boat Tour, and interns volunteer with a great group kids from the city. This is one of the best advertising internships in the business. You learn, have fun, and you're in Chicago for the summer.

Sometimes you can get busy work, but even that is interesting in the ad world.

Apply early and try to find somebody on the inside.

The Leo Burnett Chicago office internship is terrific. I was able to meet and work with all different departments. I was put on a large restaurant account and loved it. Went to meetings, performed research, and was asked for my opinion.

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Get after it. Don't wait to be told everything to do, take projects on and propose solutions. Be aggressive.

- The PetSmart account team welcomed me in with open arms.
- The account supervisor made sure that I was able to participate and see the agency work that I was interested in. She cared about my summer internship goals.
- Deep dive into retail. Lots of analytics. I conducted store audits and competitive research.
- Our intern group was assigned a re-branding project for Bally Total Fitness. We presented this to exec mgmt.

Advertising is not an episode of Mad Men. There is a lot of detailed, hard work and client management.

I really respect Leo Burnett as an agency. If you want to be in advertising, I also encourage you to find a NYC agency instead of local.

- Opportunity to work in advertising internationally (through a school program).
- Leo Burnett was very accepting and they loved having me around the office.
- The work was incredible.
- The Leo Burnett accounts I worked on included: Canon, Subaru, and Diageo.
- Trusted to maintain websites for Canon "Photo5" and "Photochains."
- Unbelievable experience. Cool office.

Culture is different a little more laid back. Not a bad thing, just took some getting used to.

My advice is that the world is going global and if you can find the way to gain international advertising exposure, snatch it up.

Leo Burnett is a great agency with a long track record of doing work worth talking about. I worked on cross-promotions for a couple films including Kung Fu Panda. I also got some international exposure.

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Work hard.

- P&G as client. Also dabbled in Nintendo.
- People and culture.
- Access and pitching to Leo Burnett executives.
- Video production and editing.
- Learned a ton about research.

Some parts of the internship, I had to seek out things to do. This was a good think since it allowed me to self select projects at Leo.

- Creative application.
- Be passionate about the agency's clients. Know them.
- Get results.

- Leo Burnett has a great intern project. We split up into teams of 8 and pitched a campaign.
- I was able to participate in creative meetings, client calls, and strategic planning iniatives.
- Great people and culture.
- Worked on several digital projects.
- Cool clients.

Not too much responsibility, more support.

My advice is to get into digital and social media. Leo Burnett clients were very interested in moving digitally.

- Intern pitch project. We split up into teams of 8 and pitched Leo Burnett agency leaders.
- Exposure to digital, social, and web analytics. I learned a ton on the digital side.
- Leo Burnett allowed me to be active in client calls and meetings.
- Cool people. Great manager.

It's hard to switch from intern to fulltime employee. Top tier agencies are very competitive.

My advice is to understand the business side of ad agencies. Learn about billing and how they make money.

It's in Chicago, you get real work at a one of the greats in the business and you work with some of the best young talent in the business.

There no cons.

If you you have the chance to intern with Leo Burnett in Chicago, please take it.