First week in Kingsmen Creative

Like the appearance of this post would suggest, I have officially began on my journey in the corporate (communications) world.

It turned out my first day in Kingsmen Creative was not as nerve wrecking as I expected it to be. There were some awkward moments here and there, but my co-workers were all nice and amicable. Hopefully I will shake off the ‘new guy’ tag soon and begin bonding with the colleagues and getting some real work done! 

So as mentioned, I managed to secure an internship placement with Kingsmen Creative, courtesy to the referral of a lecturer from the school. Kingsmen is a communication design and production company based over 18 countries in the world and it specialises in servicing the following business segments; Research & Design, Retail & Corporate Interior, Exhibitions & Events, Thematic & Museums, and Alternative Marketing.

More about my first day- I was first given a virtual tour of the company by the corporate communicate manager before being handed over to an executive of the department who gave me a physical tour around the complex and briefed me of my responsibilities within the department, and the scope of my first task in the company.

The company is currently in the midst of sorting out entries sent in from its various subsidiaries from all over the world. The management at Kingsmen firmly believe that the constant communication between employees builds and improve the cross functionality of its employees, which is essential for the fast moving industry of design communication. This led to the development of its multiple internal communication channels. The annual Kingsmen Builders and Design Award being 1 of which the company used to keep its internal stakeholders abreast of the work that each country is producing.

For the bulk of my first week, I was tasked to filter out entries that do not fulfill the entry criteria, and ensuring that all entries are accompanied by the required documents and graphics and basically to attend to any other matters pertaining to the contest.

My other responsibility for the first week was media monitoring. Surprise surprise? Media monitoring here is very much more extensive compared what was learnt in the school. The industry that the company is operating is rather niche so there are very little readily available information, which makes the task a little more complex.  

I think if anything I learnt on my first week in the company would be that there might be some authenticity to say that PR or corporate communications generally handle tasks that fall beyond the scope of the other departments. Will go further into this point on the next post when I write about the some of the other tasks the corporate communication department here handles. Tell me your view on this meanwhile.

Oh, just a fun quiz before I end this post. The mascot of Kingsmen is the humpty dumpty, can anyone guess why? Clue: sing out the nursery rhyme in your mind. Answer will be reveal in the next post!

So long people.