Educational Sales and Leadership Internship

Job Description

Established in 1855, Southwestern Advantage is the oldest entrepreneurial program in the world for university students. Our program has given hundreds of thousands of participants the opportunity to graduate debt-free with transferrable personal and professional skills. Student Reps spend their summers being personally coached on how to build their own small businesses in a new part of the country, visiting with families, showing educational apps, websites, and books.
After their first summer, students that demonstrate leadership qualities are given the opportunity to gain the experience of leading teams and organizations. Often, Student Reps use their undergrad experience with Southwestern Advantage to move into professional sales management within the company after graduation, while many others are offered career positions within one of our 25 companies in the Southwestern Family of Companies that serve a variety of industries (finance, consulting, fundraising, real estate, travel and more).

Southwestern Advantage is a BBB award-winner for ethical commerce and has been repeatedly named a Top Workplace by Nashville's leading newspaper The Tennessean.

The Southwestern Advantage learning system is a trusted industry-leading resource designed by a national team of top educators that helps with everything from the ABCs to the ACTs. Our product content providers also include National Geographic, The Princeton Review, McGraw-Hill, and more. Millions of families across the US & Canada have added Southwestern Advantage products to their home. Our learning system is only sold in-person or virtually by Student Reps, as the primary purpose of Southwestern Advantage is to be a skill-development program for the university students that participate.

Qualifications

Students selected to work in our program are taught every aspect of running their own business selling educational resources. The main focus of our program is to help students develop 21st Century soft skills that will be applicable in any field. Currently we work with students from over 200 college campuses and select only around 2,000 students each year to participate.

If a student shows leadership qualities and does well their first summer they may be given the opportunity to work with us in future summers as a Student Leader and gain experience in leading and guiding others.