It is my third week at PPR (Professional Public Relations) now and I am still enjoying every minute of it, I had a long and hard thought about what I could write about in my next blog post and found this topic a very interesting yet easy one to write about!
When I began my placement, another intern started on the same day as me and then another intern was already at PPR and had started a week earlier, surprisingly the other two students are from Curtin and we had all come across each other in a few units many years ago! PPR do not usually take on three interns at a time but due to it being a busy period approaching they thought it would be okay.
Gem and I have been working on McHappy Day and Rory is doing bits and pieces for the other consultants in the office. In the first few days we all had that competitive eye on the prize look, wanting to impress everyone and any one in the firm and to try and secure potential job opportunities and build networks (which we still do) but after the first week we all learnt very quickly that we were here to learn and advance our own skills in a real-life situation and not necessarily out shine each other.
Gemma and I both found that we worked better when we did the task together (we got it done quicker and it used up both of our brains to get better ideas!). We also learnt that we worked at different speeds, so some tasks which needed to be done immediately were given to me and then tasks that needed a few more hours (waiting for clients to call back) were given to Gem. Now in my third week and Gemma's forth week I definitely am going to miss having her around. I think having another intern gives you more self-confidence and reassurance knowing you can ask somebody for help. We can both say that the level of our work has improved just by getting one another to read over what we have done before we send it to our fellow college.
What I would like to know is if anybody else is in this same position? and whether its working or not for them?
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Sunday, October 4, 2015
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