Understanding the work place Environment

Understanding the work place Environment

I tried to upload on my instagram account but it takes an eternity to upload and display all I wanted for this blog post. So let's go, As the second week of my internship come to an end, the opportunity to meet and familiarise with others members of the company come in hand with the knowledge acquire with it. Taking the opportunity to learn from others of what their jobs consist of within the company mostly as an observer is not only is a great way of making professional contact but also the allows an internal insight of the company works. 

As a disclaimer: First of all I am not a Fan of Instagram using this #CurtinPRIntern #PUBR3002workspaces is a nightmare for me being more of the PC / Laptop guy. So I download a third party app InstaPic to be able to upload on this social media app.

The Kitchen and dinning room at Cread Ltd

This is not a surprise, sharing a meal is often the best way to get to know people and know start making connections.

As most of them being communication professional either as Marketing officers, retail designers, Finance and accounting department, Human resources department or strategy officers. Their time is usually precious and it hard to get to know them during their working hours as being most of the time hang up to the phone or communicating with client using emails or simply out of the office for business purposes.

Cread Ltd Retail marketing department

 The Retail Marketing department

The official placement place I was assigned to but its is just because there was space issues. This department consist of a marketing officer dealing with the media directly for booking, advert placement and act as a media liaison for the company with media outlets and the company client. This is the home of most of the designers of the company working on adverts, brochures, annual reports and strategic design requirement for the company. 

Cread Ltd Design Branding and Innovation department

Design Branding and Innovation department

This department can be called the brain of the company as it is where communication, marketing, Branding design and all decision making take place. This is also the place I am able to learn from and discover how events such street guerilla tactics, the application of the 4 Why's of marketing applies, the purpose of a big Idea in the story telling and copy writing for radio script, television scripts and Facebook and social media strategies with the use of visual identity

Cread Ltd  Second Meeting room

The Main meeting Room with the CEO

For my working experience that I was able to acquire either a web designer or freelancer, I never met a such friendly character  and experience in his profession as the CEO and Executive Director of Cread Ltd. This room is either where meeting with Clients occur or the meeting with the DBI team or marketing officers occur. This room is where generally all strategies of the company are approve and decision making task are taken for the company. 

Those areas of the company is full of resources that I can exploit as a PR Intern, the internal communication among department is excellent and the convivial atmosphere mix with the pressure of deadline creates a unique working environment. This allows a better understanding of the communication world, its realities, flaws and joys which is a blessing in disguise. 

The making of a better workplace

On the 2nd of May, there has been a makeover in our Colosoul group's office due to the in-organised setting which it was hard for almost everyone in the office to do their job. Basically, there are no exact seats or position provided to us during our office working hour, facing problems like no seats or table available.

Papers and documents are everywhere in the office and we are always unable to find things we needed, important documents that are suppose to be in our database are nowhere to be found, stationary that are needed to do the job are very limited and most importantly there are not enough computers for us to use. All these issues has been a threat to the company.

Fortunately, our CEO had agreed to commence a makeover for the company, each of us who has more days spend in the office were given a job. Some were here to move tables and partition to create workplace and to separate into different department, which there is now a place for administrative, designers, accountant and etc.

My job that day was to search for materials needed for this makeover, such as computers, stationeries, printers, scanners and etc. basically I have to look for things on the internet by comparing price and search for the most reasonable quality with the lower price.

Due to the fact that we are in the media industry, our boss had suggested that we could also get corporate or business-partners to sponsor us with things we need if they are able to do so. hopefully, there will be good news coming to us. That's all for now, thanks for reading.