In terms of receiving an
internship I have been quite lucky. My father is a newsagent from Bunbury and
has been for over 20 years. This has prompted me working in newsagencies since
the tender age of 13 and am currently the manager of another newsagency in
Subiaco. To cut to the short of it, approximately two years ago I was attending
a Lotterywest event with my family and the recently retired CEO of Lotterywest,
Jan Stewart, and I were having a conversation about my university studies.
After finding out that I was doing Marketing and Public Relations, Mrs Stewart was
kind enough to suggest that if I needed work experience, Lotterywest may be
suitable. And so two years down the track as I am coming to the end of my
degree I came into contact with Lotterywest and was lucky enough to find an
opening for a Public Relations internship.
So upon the nerves of
starting my first day, I was introduced to the Corporate Communications team of
three who I would be completing the majority of my work experience with. As
well as the other particulars that needed to be taken care of, I was sat down,
and told that my first task would be to write a speech for the Premier, as well
as a representing the Premier in a column for the Perth International Arts
Festival guide. Over the next couple of days the speech was sent between myself
and the Premier’s speech writers until it was finalised. This became part of my
first published work in the Public Relations field and the excitement could not
have been wiped off of my face!
The CEO, Jan Stewart’s
office in proximity to where I and the Corporate Communications Team was
seated.
Over the next few days I got
used to the normal day-to-day running of an organisation. Each morning the
Communications team and the Senior Communications Manager would go over the
goals for the day and then myself and the Communications Officer would check
the social media accounts for Lotteryewest as well as the media monitoring
program to see if any issues needed to be dealt with. Then we would start our
assigned tasks and get on with the day.
Overall my first few days
was a success, I was beginning to feel like part of the team and had realised
that as well as fulfilling the need for experience, an internship at
Lotterywest would fulfil myself personally as I would be able to experience and
learn about a different side of Lotterywest. Thus being after already having well
a established opinion and knowledge about the organisation and its products
from the previous seven years of work on the retail side of the operation.
Thanks for reading,
Scott
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