PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

2025 Professional Development Program

Our program provides an opportunity for you to gain real world, practical experience and professional skills that will complement your academic program and enhance your career opportunities.

Program Overview

The Entourage Freight Solutions Professional Development Program will introduce you to the full range of operations within the company. Over the next three months, you will be assigned to specific areas and a supervisor while rotating through each department within our company. The program provides an opportunity for you to gain real world, practical experience and professional skills that will complement your academic program and enhance your career opportunities.


The objective of the program is to provide you with employment that includes challenging responsibilities and training experience, while applying knowledge from your current course studies. As an Intern, you are expected to demonstrate strong communication and team building skills throughout the summer. The program is also intended to support our organization by allowing us to work with junior and senior-level college students prior to your graduation date to increase our ability to recruit full-time opportunities.

Duration

The Summer Internship program will start mid-May, 2025, and will end early August 2025. Working hours for interns will vary. Interns are scheduled on a 12-week cycle and will be provided with a rotation schedule on their first day of employment. Adjustments to this format can be made with the approval of the Hiring Manager. 

Compensation

Interns will be non-exempt, hourly associates and paid weekly at a rate of $15.00 per hour. Interns will be subject to all company policies and procedures and will not be eligible for the benefits that are available to full time employees. 

Evaluation

Interns will complete an evaluation after each department rotation. Comparably, each departmental supervisor will complete an evaluation of the intern after their rotation. 

End of Assignment

An Exit Interview will be conducted with Human Resources at the end of the internship. At this time, potential opportunities for future employment can be discussed. 

Department Outlines

Interns will rotate in 5 departments throughout the program.

  • Carrier Sales

    Report to:

    Emeka Nosiri, Senior Director of Operations


    Rotation Duration:

    4 Weeks


    During your rotation in the Carrier Sales department, you can expect to learn/gain an understanding of/be exposed to/complete the following tasks:


    Learn/Assist with Truck Dispatching 

    • Check on loads.
    • Check on temperatures. 
    • Check on pick-ups.

    Learn/Assist with Procurement of Freight


    Learn/Assist with Procurement of OTR Trucks

    • Cold Calls
    • Negotiation Tactics 
    • Work with R.S. Hanline Approved Trucking Lanes

    Overview of McLeod Software 

  • Account Management

    Report to:

    Patti Swain, Director of Customer Success


    Rotation Duration:

    2 Weeks


    During your rotation in the Account Management department, you can expect to learn/gain an understanding of/be exposed to/complete the following tasks:


    Understand customers' business

    • Dry vs. reefer
    • Lane volumes and cost
    • What carriers we work with
    • What shipment visibility means to the customer
    • How to our volume with the customer
    • How to successfully manage accounts
    • How to quote our customers
    • How to provide updates to our customers
    • How to communicate with our customers
  • Inside Sales

    Report to:

    Will Crosby, National Sales Manager


    Rotation Duration:

    2 Weeks


    During your rotation in the Carrier Sales department, you can expect to learn/gain an understanding of/be exposed to/complete the following tasks:


    CRM Activity 

    • Check on loads.
    • Check on temperatures. 
    • Check on pick-ups.

    Customer Execution

    • Shipment quoting
    • Load acceptance
    • Appointment scheduling
    • Shipment updates
    • Customer communication

    Collaboration

    • Enterprise sales
    • Account Management
    • Carrier sales
    • Carrier development/set-up
  • Enterprise Sales

    Report to: 

    Cody Magrum, Director of Sales 


    Rotation Duration:

    2 weeks 


    During your rotation with the Enterprise Sales Department, you can expect to learn/gain an understanding of/be exposed to/complete the following tasks:

     

    Prospecting 

    • Finding leads
    • Identifying lead contacts

    CRM Development

    • Adding leads
    • Scheduling Lead Tasks

    Calls/Emails

    • Scheduling Account (customer) Tasks

    Calls/Emails/Meetings

    • Completing Lead/Account Tasks
    • CRM Reporting

    Outreach

    • Cold Calling/Cold Emailing
    • Discover Calls/Meetings
    • Pricing Customers/Prospects

  • Carrier Development

    Report to: 

    Emeka Nosiri,, Senior Director of Operations


    Rotation Duration:

    2 weeks


    During your rotation in the Carrier Development department, you can expect to learn/gain an understanding of/be exposed to/complete the following tasks:


    Carrier Development

    • Carrier onboarding process
    • Lane needs
    • Carrier preferences
    • How to make it easier for carriers to work with us.
    • The best form of communication with carriers
    • How to ensure the operations team is utilizing our carriers
    • RFP costing

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