The closing event

The time has come where I have officially completed my internship for Sunset Events. The last week was an absolute eye opener with us hosting our last epic festival for the season (GTM) and I have to say it was an absolutely AMAZING way to have ended my time at this amazing company! We spent the last day of my internship working on the festival in Bunbury by moving around to the many areas that needed attention. I spent some time managing the social media pages to ensure there was an update of the festival, coordinating the artist backstage (which was awesome), and helping to man the site office. There were some real perks with the event side of my internship such as seeing so many artists are the numerous festivals I have been able to work at and getting side stage access to some of the best performances.

After spending the last 5 months with the team at Sunset Events, I have learnt how important a good work environment is on the quality of your work and how much effort you put in to what you do. Although my position was not entirely public relations based, it gave me the chance to apply the knowledge I have in to other fields of work and be able to showcase my skills and talents. I have learnt so much throughout my time as an intern and I know that having an established position in an organisation will be better than I could imagine. The support I received from the team also made coming in to work much easier as I was able to get help whenever I needed, and just by watching how the others worked, I was able to adopt a sense of work ethic that will be suitable for me in the future. 

Although my intent is to not work directly in events straight out of university, and instead would rather gain some more knowledge in corporate public relations, I feel like I have really taken a lot from this experience and would love to be given the chance to incorporate my studies and my experience in to one amazing job. The future is very difficult to predict in terms of job availability, I know that I can take my experience at Sunset Events and apply myself to a job of a similar nature. 

With all that said, this is also my last blog post so I hope that people have enjoyed reading them and those who were also interning in an events based company, could relate to my experience! Please comment and let me know what you thought of yours as I would love to see the differences and similarities in the field! 

Busy as bees.

The last two weeks have been very busy for the Sunset team. With a changing dynamic in the team along with an upcoming Groovin the Moo festival, it has been all hands on deck from the beginning through to the end of the day. As we are coming to the end of festival season, we are looking to revamp our social media pages and website to keep our followers interested. My tasks for the past weeks have been market research of different events pages nationally and internationally to see what we can do different that works for other companies. Research is a huge part of any successful change so that we know what to expect and how to transition in the right way.

I have also been on festival info duty where I have had to create more info point folders and create budgets for accommodations as GTM is an away festival. This really exposed me to how expensive an event can be amongst other costs that are involved. Not all of my work has been quite as fun however because with events, there is also a lot of tedious and repetitive jobs! Being the office intern, i was also responsible for running errands to pick up required material for the upcoming event as well as to be at everyones disposal when they needed things laminated, put in to folders or hole punched. As little as these small tasks are, it can be very time consuming when you have large amounts to do.

A change within the teams structure has also required given me a taste of what corporate life entails however I have felt very much like a valued member of the team here throughout this process as the change in team members have required my suggestions and opinions as well as my effort in finding suitable candidates for this place. The changing environment gave me a taste of PR in the sense that I had to be diligent with internal communications and learn to handle any workplace changes professionally.

Next week is my last week as an intern at Sunset Events and I am looking forward to telling you all about my entire experience at this place!

Mel x