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! 

FIRST BLOG POST!!

Hi everyone!!

This is my first blog post and I am very excited to share with you my experiences so far!

I am currently doing my placement at Sunset Events in Fremantle, most of you may know that they are a music events group that organises Laneway, Southbound, GTM and a couple more festivals! It has been really fun so far being able to organise these festivals along with working at them (woo free ticket) and seeing what the events industry is like from the inside.

At first it was really tough not doing the PR side of things but after a couple weeks of being involved in other processes of the operation, I have been put in charge of media monitoring, social networking and client liaising. The office vibe is really great and easy going which makes going in to work really fun and I am learning different components of the events sector each shift I go to! I work closely with the Marketing and PR team as well as the administration team.

I have been assigned duties such as meeting up with shopkeepers and being in charge of the advertising of upcoming events. I regularly have to prepare media ready kits to send directly to media outlets to promote our festivals on newspapers and magazines.

This is just a brief introduction to what I have done so far and I will continue to post and keep you all in the loop!

All the best,
Mel xxx