Why did I
choose such a place to carry out my Public Relations internship you may ask?
Previous to my study of PR and Events Management at Curtin, I studied at
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), as I’ve always had a
passion for music in general. When the opportunity to take up an internship
came about, I thought, why not fuse both of my passions. I believed that this would help me to develop a
deeper understanding for both, PR, events and music. Thus, I began to set my
sights on any related business / organisation that had some sort of tie with
music, and to my luck was accepted to carry this out at WAM.
The team at WAM are a very unique group of individuals that each have their own style, yet still work together extremely well as a team. I learnt this quickly on day one, rocking up in my professional attire, only to be greeted by everyone in their casual clothes, each with their bit of flair. Casual clothes aside this is definitely not how they operate. Every bit of professionalism is squeezed out via their individual roles.
The team at WAM are a very unique group of individuals that each have their own style, yet still work together extremely well as a team. I learnt this quickly on day one, rocking up in my professional attire, only to be greeted by everyone in their casual clothes, each with their bit of flair. Casual clothes aside this is definitely not how they operate. Every bit of professionalism is squeezed out via their individual roles.
The two whom I
work with the closest handle the PR and Marketing side of WAM. Duties that I’ve
had to perform include:
·
Editing
and publishing media releases to be published on their website www.wam.org.au under the ‘News’ tab
·
Editing
and publishing events information on their website, under their Events’ tab
·
Updating
their ENews letter via Mailchimp
·
Taking
phone calls
·
Use
of social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and most currently snapchat)
·
Putting
together spreadsheets of collated information for future use
·
Research
and report writing
·
Image
editing
Each job I tackle has at least a template I can look too or previous work I can
base it upon. Admittedly, I have struggled with certain jobs and have taken
awhile to complete. Strangely enough, the hardest task I have found so far is
to squeeze as much information as I can into a 140 character tweet. Who knew?
Each day is
carried out with a task completion before moving on to the next and the great
thing about it all is, we work as one team, regardless of being an original WAM
team member or an intern.
For any PR students out their looking for a place of internship, I highly recommend WAM. The exposure is not only excellent, but they take on numerous amounts of interns each year, so they are experienced in working with interns and delegating tasks in which one can gain PR experience in. You will definitely learn to grow quickly!
- Dharshini
(Curtin University - Bentley)
For any PR students out their looking for a place of internship, I highly recommend WAM. The exposure is not only excellent, but they take on numerous amounts of interns each year, so they are experienced in working with interns and delegating tasks in which one can gain PR experience in. You will definitely learn to grow quickly!
- Dharshini
(Curtin University - Bentley)
2 comments:
Great blog, Dee!
Awesome to see that you have been able to combine two of your passions together for a rewarding internship experience this semester.
-Georgia
Your internship sounds so great! It's brilliant that you can fuse your interest in PR and events with your love for music!
How interesting that at first glance WAM comes across looking really casual but then is truly a highly professional organisation, it sounds like an awesome environment to be working in. The variety of work you're doing also sounds like it's great for growing your PR skills for the future.
Good luck with the rest of your internship!
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