Danny Champion of the World!!!!!!

Well, guys I’m finally DONE!!!! Yay for me!

Finished last week, cutting it a bit late (2 weeks before end of semester and report is due) but you got to make do with what you get.

I’m honestly going to miss my workplace. I got along great with everyone and will miss them. An honorary morning tea was held to mark my last day, as well as a cake, a massive card signed by everyone and I also received a small gift as a token of their appreciation.

It has been a rollercoaster ride, a steep learning curve, being the first ‘proper’ time I have worked in a workplace. I’m now used to wearing the whole ‘business’ attire and am now going to buy a suite. I'm going to look very impressive and legit!

What I learnt, I would like to work in-house instead of a consultancy. This does not mean I won’t try a consultancy but I much prefer to work in-house. It isn’t laid back as such, but not the rush and extreme stress of working for a consultancy, constantly having to meet deadlines for your clients. In-house you also don’t work for clients but the actual company you work for.

By the way, this may be very very basic but I hope everyone knows what ‘in-house’ means????? I remember Katharina telling us a story about a student thinking ‘in-house’ meant working ‘in someone’s house.’ For the people who think this is a trick question, it isn’t and ‘in-house’ does not literally mean working ‘in someone’s house.’

A few things I learnt off the top of my head at my placement:

• How to ‘Mail-merge’ – a very useful skill!
• There is such a machine that folds letters for you! – Will miss the ‘folding-machine.’
  (I also recently learnt, there is such a machine that folds and stuffs envelopes for you! I never got the pleasure to meet this machine but is there anything machines can’t do???)
• No matter where you go, even in the workforce, you can never escape ‘highschool’ drama! (Long story)
• Writing media releases, tv scripts, and stories for magazine
• Learning to adapt to different people’s writing styles – You can have perfect English but different people prefer different styles of writing, depending on who you are writing for.
• The stress of event organising and waiting to receive information from people – As simple as it sounds this is a near impossible task at times, makes you want to hug the people who send you what you want straight away!
• Asking people to call you back or leaving messages are a very pointless tasks – Most people never return your calls and you have to call them back yourselves.
• No matter what you are given, whether it be sifting through distribution lists or databases of hundreds, sometimes thousands of names, do whatever your given to the best of your ability and good things will happen!

I met someone at one of the functions and it has turned into a job prospect. May as well network while your completing your placement.

I hope everyone had an enjoyable time at their placement, like I did!

I also hope everyone is having fun writing their report. I know I definitely am! (note the sarcasm)

Cheers
Dan