Feeling Lucky

Hello everyone!

After my last blog, I have decided not to write about my 2nd week experience due to the "non learning" activities I did during the week. I pretty much just had to write e-mails that had been pre-written by my supervisor and sending it to clients, wrapping some more chocolates into plastic bags for Easter, writing some welcome cards for guests of Global Hotel Alliance members, putting up posters around the hotels, and so on. Things you do not really want to know about.

Anyhow, the third week of my work experience, which started on April 4, 2012, was getting more interesting!
This was the time when I also learned that my supervisor is super creative and a tech-savvy!
She showed me how to use Adobe Acrobat to edit and write documents. What surprised me was that she actually memorized all the keyboard shortcuts which made me feel like a "noob" and I felt like I needed to learn more about using the program. She also showed me how to edit pictures and posters using Photoshop and let me tell you what an expert she is! I got motivated by her and I have got to tell you she has amazing work ethics. Organized, hands on, punctual, hard working, brilliant, creative; I have a lot to learn from her.

After showing me what she usually does with those programs, she finally trusted me to do some editings on promotion pictures and posters that would be put up on social media pages such as Facebook and Twitter, and I had a lot of fun doing and learning to become more of an expert at the same time! By the end of the week, she asked me to read Mirvac Hotels & Resorts' "Marketing Activities Report" to let me learn more about what the company does to bring in more revenue. I found it very interesting.

I am loving my internship so far and I feel so lucky to have such a truly inspiring boss.

Will let you know more on my next blog ;)

Welcoming Easter!

First of all I would like to apologize for my seem-to-be out dated title.

I had experienced some technical difficulties as I could not register as an author for this blog. But Katharina had solved the issue for me so you need to expect getting posts from me every day to catch up on the ones I should have posted weeks ago.

Anyhow I started the internship at Mirvac Hotels and Resorts on the March 22, 2012.
I have never experienced working in an office before so this is my first time blending with Marketing and Public Relations experts and let me tell you, first day on the job and I fell in love with it already!

My supervisor gave me a project for my first week of internship. She asked me to do a research on 3^rd party websites about Mirvac Hotels in WA which include Citigate Hotel, Quay West Resort Bunker Bay, The Sebel Residence East Perth, and The Sebel Mandurah. I had to go through websites such as Trip Advisor, Bookings.com, Wotif.com, and a lot more, and see whether we already have the new pictures uploaded on those 3^rd party websites. I also needed to see whether they have already updated the new parking price so I had to have a read through all 49 websites I managed to find on Google. I enjoyed looking through the websites yet it was tiring! I really did not think office job would be much more exhausting than waitressing.

I did the project for the first 2 days, after the project is finished the fun part begun!
Since it was a week before Easter, the marketing team had organized a “chocolate day”.  The team gathered and packed bags of chocolates to be given to our loyal clients as an appreciation. The office smelled like chocolates for days! To be honest I did not like putting hundreds of stickers on hundreds of plastic bags because I did it all by myself. But my supervisor told me “well you’ve got to know the downside of the job too!” Another “downside of the job” I had to do was also to fold hundreds of brochures for their “Mirvac Stars” program to be distributed to travel agents.

My supervisor, Carla, also showed me one of the most important things of working in PR or Marketing department, which is to keep checking your emails! She told me it is the most efficient and effective form of communication, and she also told me that she has to reply to at least 30 emails every day. I was like “Wow”.

I felt very welcomed on my first week on the job.  Everyone was being really supportive and nice! Although I haven’t had a chance to reflect what I have learned in university in the first week, I believe I will have the chance to shine in the upcoming weeks and I can’t wait for it!