Coming into the Shift Digital as a Website Assistant was an exciting, fresh start for me to get my career on track. Let’s take it back to my first day (roughly 18 months ago): It did not take long for me to adjust to the Shift culture and atmosphere. The employees seemed to pride themselves on the friendships they built, and the...

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Wake up. Go to work. Make coffee runs. Make copies and do filing. Make more coffee runs. Make more copies and do more filing. Go home. That’s what most people expect when they think of an internship. However, Shift Digital’s internship was nowhere near that. It was more like, wake up, go to work, get coffee for yourself (if you wanted it),...

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On July 19th, Shift Digital’s Website Assistant Team made a trip to The Adventure Park in West Bloomfield, MI to take the idea of “team-bonding” to literal new heights. In the beaming heat of a 95 degree, Michigan summer afternoon, the Website Assistants joined together to conquer every treacherous obstacle from zip-line courses to moving platforms and shaky bridges. Adventure Park is...

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On this not-so typical day at Shift Digital, employees walk in wearing colored tee shirts, bandanas, and for some, cleats. Team donation boxes cover the main tables. Instead of the expected work conversations, captains are talking strategy for the one and only annual kickball tournament. Shift Digital’s kickball tradition encourages team bonding, competition, and philanthropy benefiting The Paulie Strong Foundation. The foundation’s...

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“Did I Just Miss The Jar?!” Every day at 4 p.m. on the Volkswagen team at Shift Digital you might expect to hear Dealer calls, many clicks of a mouse and pounding keys on the keyboard, but you guessed wrong. Instead, you hear a conversation about which holiday each team member would eliminate if they had to eliminate one, and which Netflix...

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