Here are a few exciting internship opportunities in the new field of Culinary Tourism. Despite it being a new field, it is growing at a tremendous pace even as it’s structure is being defined and evolving.

Laura Raymond, President, Destination Cuisine, is just a couple weeks from officially announcing the launch of her new business venture. The main goal of Destination Cuisine is to become the world’s largest resource for everything food and travel. Think of combiningfood.com, trip advisor.com, yelp, Travelocity and gourmet shopping into one site in a heavily interactive platform where users can save all of their favorites to their profile.

Please check out the website at http://destinationcuisine.com.
Interest is rapidly picking up from the various food and travel related businesses, The endeavor has been well received by culinary tourism boards around the world and they are anxious for the launch as it is the perfect platform to promote themselves. A big part of the web-site will include businesses in the food and travel industries listing their unique offerings including events they are involved in.

From an IT perspective, Destination Cuisine needs your help with developing mobile apps for various services the business is planning to offer. Laura also needs help with developing the backend for managing and monitoring the business including additional module development, backend cleanup….

A brief list of potential job duties is given below. These duties include not only IT functions but several others like Marketing, Hospitality, Business,….. – quite a few tasks have been listed to convey an idea of the scope of the project.

List of potential duties:
• Research -Trends in food and travel, related events, competition, offshore support services, publications, best places to network both online and conferences
• Data Entry -Events Worldwide
• Writing -blogging, Site Content, Email Campaigns, Social Media
• Testing and Debugging the Site
• Advertising -interaction with tourism boards, hotels, restaurants, cooking schools, mainly follow-up through email
• Social Media -Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest -Research campaigns, possible posting and best ways to leverage DC. The main goal is to get both users and businesses to register on the site
• Marketing, Polling and Developing Surveys to post on the site
• Monitor and assess analytics for user experience
• Administrative tasks such as approving business listings and events posted by businesses
• Assist with photo shoots – including food, food styling and destinations.

Please contact Laura Raymond, President, Destination Cuisine directly at (941) 809-2012. Other contact information is:
email: lraymond@destinationcuisine.com
Fax: (941) 922-8909

Contact is at the bottom:
Job Information
Job ID 2665088
Job Title Student Intern – IT/Computer Interest
Job Description L-3 Aviation Recorders (Sarasota, Florida) has a summer internship available for a college student. As an intern, you will work in our document control department assisting with updating engineering documents and Sharepoint (document management system). This is a good opportunity for a student with an interest in Information Technology/Computers.
We are looking for a motivated student that is looking to gain some real-world experience! The hours are flexible and you may work up to 40 hours per week. Our division works a 9/80 work week with every other Friday off.
Salary $15/hr
Type of Job Internship
Job Location Sarasota, Florida
Posting Date 06/15/2012
Expiration Date 07/15/2012
Job Requirements
Degrees Wanted None Required
Majors Wanted Any Major
Job Targets Wanted Any Job Target
Special Skills Wanted
Other Job Requirements Job Requirements:

 
College Student (Business, Computers)
Entry Level
Good attention to detail and organizational skills
Good oral/written communication skills
Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Suite)

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Company Information
Company Name L-3 Communications
Employer Web Site http://www.l-3com.com/careers
Company Description L-3 Communications is a $15+B NYSE company and a leading provider of a broad array of high technology products and systems. The Aviation Recorders Division is a highly successful/profitable business unit, continuing to expand its product line to address avionics, transceivers, and instrumentation. We are the leading supplier of aviation recorders as well as maritime recording and navigation equipment, recording and monitoring vital information is essential to the success of our customers.

We are proud to be an EEO/AAP employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Equal Opportunity Employer Yes
Contact Information
Contact Name: Kathy Weibel
Address: 100 Cattlemen Road
Sarasota, FL 34232
Email: kathy.weibel@l-3com.com

Application Instructions Please visit www.l-3com.com/careers.
Click on New Grad/Internships
Choose “Aviation Recorders” from Organization drop down.
Look for position and apply.

Jackson Hewitt has full-time seasonal jobs for IT students! Please see the message from Ben Wolski, a USFSM graduate, and now a Jackson Hewitt employee, regarding the opportunities.

Please note the following two caveats:
• Seasonal testers might not get to test any of the next-gen products or systems this season
• Seasonal testers will not get to write automated tests (VS Test Professional does not include this feature).

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Life around Jackson Hewitt is revving up for a very interesting and exciting season. We started developing our next-gen tax preparation platform, which is scheduled for an internal pilot in the Fall! So we’re going to need some really good help maintaining our current application and systems. We’re hiring!
Please inform your students that Jackson Hewitt has seasonal positions available on the Quality Assurance team. My colleague and I will be conducting interviews in a few weeks and would love for some bright students to throw their hats in the ring. It’s a full-time 40 hour/week position scheduled to last approximately 7 months. The seasonal testers will gain hands-on experience with the SDLC of mobile apps, web applications, legacy client-based apps and maybe even some cutting-edge web applications hosted in Windows Azure! Responsibilities will include systematic execution of manual and automated test plans as well as exploratory testing. Seasonal testers will also be responsible creating and modifying test documentation.

But that doesn’t really capture the essence of the opportunity here…we’re diligently trying to update our testing process. There’s a huge push from management to develop and execute load tests and automated UI tests (my obsession at the moment), as well as rethink our entire approach to manual testing. The company hired a professional QA trainer/consultant to assess current practices, make recommendations and offer 12 hours of training (every morning this week) to the entire team (approx. 30 people). So management’s serious. We’re making a big move forward in the near future. I have already installed Visual Studio Test Professional on two of the machines that will be used by the incoming seasonal testers. These are the first installations of VS Test Professional at Jackson Hewitt. I am hoping to blaze a new trail with our seasonal testers this year. However, I have a ton of other responsibilities, so I am really looking for strong candidates that, in addition to the responsibilities outlined above, can learn with me and help design a new system for manual testing with this new tool. Initially, the scope will be limited to my components and maybe a few others, but if the tool proves useful, management wants to adopt it for the entire team. Anybody with a strong understanding of both test design and Microsoft Test Manager (part of VS Test Professional) will be very valuable to the organization going forward. Prior experience with software testing is “preferred” according to the attached posting, but is not required for this position. I would be very happy to find a quick learner with an strong aptitude for technology and solid writing skills.
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Please email your resumes to Ben Wolski at Ben.Wolski@jtax.com directly if you are interested.

Thanks!
Sunita

Need a full-time programmer/analyst consultant to be the “go to” person with SQL expertize ( preferably Microsoft SQL) for SQL work and related technologies. As Level 2, the individual will also need to be able to serve as a mentor to Level 1 team members.

The person will work on a variety of projects that include additional skills beyond SQL inclusive of CRM, SharePoint, .NET , data architecture, requirements gathering and testing.

TechHouse will provide training on tools/methodologies which may not have been used before, but the person needs to be very solid with SQL at a minimum.

TechHouse is a learning and collaborative environment that actively practices continuous improvement, so a culture fit with that and our 4 core values would be great ( Creativity, Integrity, Excellence and Caring).

Please apply directly to:

Kathy Durfee
CEO and Founder
6910 Professional Parkway East
Lakewood Ranch, Florida 34240-8414

Office: 941.756.2602
Cell:941.374.6590
Email: kathy.durfee@tech-house.com