Yes I know! From not having an internship a
month ago, I now have a title at my new job! Let me explain to you guys the
importance of this title. My boss gave me the task of emailing some potential
clients about the services that the company proposes and while we were
discussing about the content of the emails, he told me to sign the email by
this particular title.
One important thing we have learnt in PR (it has become
a rule now!) is that image is very important. When you deal with your stakeholders,
you have to be on your best because you are representing an organisation as we
have been seeing in nearly all PR units. Whenever I was dealing with clients
addressing myself as the PR assistant, I could sense their interest and
attention and I can bet my life that I would not have received the same
treatment if I had said “Hi, this is the intern at Mamba!” So far, the last ten
days or so I spent at Mamba have been prolific. My first task was to target
clients, existing and new, about the new services that Mamba Advertising was
offering.
Exterior shot of Mamba Advertising
Reception area!
We're all hoping to have some fresh coconut juice and cream soon!
A few days and some in-depth research
later, I was assign to create a business directory on stakeholders. Since, the
agency was mostly known for advertising rather than PR/Communication, I
suggested my boss that we could create a newsletter that would clearly explain
the range of services to the clients. I’m grateful that my boss trusted me
enough to let me in charge of the newsletter and I thank god that I haven’t
forgotten my design skills (though, I still had to refresh my memory on how to
use Adobe InDesign and Illustrator!).
Vincent, my boss, also announced that we
would be doing a media plan (that’s how they call it by the way!) and asked me
to do the media placements. I will talk about that in my next post since
clearly my words are exceeding the space I have! Oh wait! Have I told you guys
that I have to speak and write in French, English and Mauritian Creole
everyday! Now that’s something!
See y’all later!
I hope you guys are having a great time at your internships!
Kritina Sungkur
15886486
Charles Telfair
Institute
3 comments:
Your intern placement seems like such a unique place and its awesome the tasks you are assigned to collects to what you have been taking in your past units. It so challenging that you are doing your tasks in 3 languages because its already tricky for me to do in 2 languages:/
hey Kritina, looks like your internship is like some nice beach houses I've been too:) Having a title is nice and when I got mine at work i was on my little cloud and sending random mails at all my contact list so as they can my signature. Finally design classes were useful to both of us.. TO conclude, really nice post with nice pictures :)
Rachel Olivier-Bheeka
15813798
CTI
Maurtius
@Emy Metassan
Hi, thank you for your comment! Indeed my internship office is located in a very unique environment. I have been lucky to have tasks that were related to my past units. I hope you were able to use the knowledge you grasped in class to the tasks you carried out at work. Working in various languages has been tricky for me as well.
All the best to you! :)
Kritina
@Rachel Norah Olivier-Bheeka
Hey Rachel! Thanks for your lovely comment! As you have said having a title really makes it easier to look credible to the clients. It’s also important since it enables people to save your name for future usage and reference. Ah, about design classes, I keep thanking god about not forgetting my design skills; I’m sure it came in handy to you as well.
Yours,
Kritina
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