Hello all,
This is my fourth entries and in
this post, I will briefly explain on the things that I've learn and experienced
in my 3 third weeks in RTM Sabah.
Every morning when I arrived at
work, I am required to read newspapers and update my supervisor regarding news
that is related with RTM and their competitors too. I will be given more than 5
newspapers to read every morning. Hence, in this scenario, RTM biggest
competitor is Era FM and Suria FM due to their funding/sponsor and their
freewill in running an events compared with RTM. With that, my curiosity on how
a PR person does their job especially in an event was answered. Most of the
workers in RTM must abide the rules that is stated starting from the layout of
a running sheet, the budget that is used in an event, design of a proposal and
the event plan.
Furthermore, that other constant
thing that I will always do every week is to write a media release, running schedule,
checklists, sorting out the budget and confirming every guests that is
attending an event. That is like a daily routine in the PR department. We are
always busy typing a document, making a phone call or going up and down in
managing an event. Teamwork is important as it determine either the tasks
that is given can be done on time. It is so hard to complete a tasks when
either one of the colleague fail to complete his/her part of work or on-leave. All
of us (including me) will be given a specific time or day in finalizing our
tasks and if we did not complete it, we have to extend our working hours. Thus,
it teaches me about the value of working together and never procrastinates...
The
next thing that I like is meeting. Every once or twice a week, the PR
department will have their one hour meeting in updating each other with the
things that is yet to happen (such as the next event, meeting with other department,
field-trip) and the supervisor will give advice about which thing should focused first. Everyone never fail to
contribute and exchange their ideas. In fact, it helps me to
improve my communication skills in interacting with different type of peoples.
To summarize the whole thing, I've learn how
to write a media release, helped to organize an event, did the event plan, checklist
and running schedule, attend a meeting and interact with all of them, work
together as a team, communicate with different type of people through phone
call and face to face and enhance my interests in reading newspaper. All of
this was taught in my third week there and I feel lucky for given the chance to
complete my internship there.
That’s about it & thank you
for reading :)
Regards,
Mona Coretti Lee
14926420
Curtin University Sarawak
4 comments:
It sounds like a very broad learning experience you went through! Event planning is one particularly interesting learning task I find. Event planning is so much more complicated than people perceive it to be. The pre-planning takes a lot of preparation regardless of the size! My experience with event planning has been one experience that I believe will directly benefit me in the future and I hope you feel the same way!
Thank you for sharing your experience and thoughts about event planning to me. And yes, it is indeed a challenging experiences but of course,it is an additional knowledge for me.
I enjoy attending meetings as well as I find being a part of the team during their discussion allows me to learn more and understand the company internally. Its good that you are exposed to a lot of things during your internship, it will prepare you for your next real job!
Hi Michelle,
It is definitely a privilege for us to gain more knowledge with our placement and it gives us the opportunity to applied the things that we've learn in Curtin. It is indeed our first preparation before we step into the working world.
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