Week three has been my busiest week so
far. This week was the Australian Oil and Gas conference/exhibition, which my
internship workplace was managing the media room. Personally I had no knowledge
in the oil and gas industry, it was never something that I had studied or followed.
However when asked if I wanted to come along and experience it, I said yes
wanting to get as much experience in different fields as I could. Now that the
conference is over, I can honestly say it was one of the best experiences I
have had and I really enjoyed it.
The conference was very interesting, I got the
opportunity to network with some great people who work in different fields,
listen to talks by companies such as Woodside and Chevron and participated in the
AOG Women expo. I met some great journalists who offered me advice on the
PR/journalism world, helped with interviewing/filming of the expo and also
helped curate the @AOG_expo twitter feed with one of my colleagues. I was asked
to be the barrel girl with one of our competitions and also be filmed walking
through the expo for some promo footage. It was an experience that I really
enjoyed and I am very grateful for the opportunity.
To finish of the week after 2 and half days at the
AOG expo, I was back in the office interviewing clients’ team members and also
writing pitch stories to the media for clients. The weeks are full of variety
and there aren't enough hours in the day to fit in all in, but I absolutely
love it!
Chelsea x
2 comments:
Sounds like an incredible experience and some really great hands on experience. It's great that your getting experience in the Mining and Gas sector as this is such a pivotal part of Western Australian industry and the information and contacts you are making and even other information that you are acquiring will really help you out in the future. Doing PR for a mining or gas company I think would be really interesting, especially in the unfortunate event of any crisis management, those simulations we participated in would really come in handy.
I too can identify with the fact that you had a client in an industry that you don't know too much about. For me it was a client that our consultancy works with from Property Development. However after working with this client whilst interning, I have been able to learn a large amount about the industry and the client. After performing a large amount of research to try and understand the client, I too believe that immersing yourself in their events and on the ground processes helps in understanding the client and their background more than what you would by reading about them. I witnessed this through attending a meet and greet meeting with our client. It's really good to see that other people who are in my shoes are having similar experiences to what I am.
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