work placement programme
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Apresentação dos meus 3 meses de estágio para a Universidade de Cambridge.TRANSCRIPT
Work Placement Programme
Rodrigo d’Orey Carneiro15.06.09 – 11.09.09
Organization’s Business:• Founded in 2004;
• Based in Hale - Manchester;
• Single-site business;
• Peppermint is a PR Office that excels at generating reams of positive media coverage for its clients from memorable corporate brands, website design and literature to results-driven direct email and internet marketing;
• From arresting ad campaigns to compelling awards entries they develop marketing tools that work hard for their clients.
The company:
Departments:
Peppermint PR
Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Press Releases.
Clients:
Work environment:• The staff usually work up to 10 hours per day;
• Sometimes the staff work overtime and are paid for it;
• One break for lunch (flexible) and daily meetings (at the end of the day);
• 2 weeks holidays - twice a year;
• Sometimes freelancers are required to help;
• One room for everyone.
Hierarchy: Suzy and Jean-Philippe Glaskie(Directors)Jane Carroll
(Account Director)Owen LaBeck
Kirsty Hogarth
Tamsin Sless
Emma Jones
Graham Robinson(Digital Director)
Adam d’Arcy
Rachel Wardle(Office Assistant)Me(Work Placement)
The staff:
Colleagues’ characteristics: • Open-minded, easy-going and hard-working;
• Everyone works as a team;
• Although a lot of work needs to be done all the time, no one gets stressed;
• Very communicative;
• Friendly, polite and welcoming;
• Helpful and patient.
Safety at work:• Health and Safety guide;
• First aid box in the kitchens;
• Fire doors;
• Fire alarms;
• Fire exits;
• Signs whilst the floor is getting cleaned;
• Prohibited lifting heavy boxes or whatever it is.
Using my skills:
Oral Communication
Chats;
Opinions;
Doubts;
Work to do;
Break time.
Written Communication
Notes;
Work plan;
Emails;
Software;
Researches.
Using my skills:
Reading
Newspapers, magazines and press releases;
Cuttings;
Response sources;
Update and organize files and folders;
Researches.
Using my skills:
Working with others
Rachel – Supervisor
Charlene and Graham – Social Media (Panda Drinks)
Tamsin – Cuttings
Jane – Researches
Kirsty – Social Media and Researches (Swizzwels Matlow)
Using my skills:
Improving my own knowledge
Vocabulary;
Formal and informal language;
Expressing myself;
Public Relations world;
How an office works in the United Kingdom.
Using my skills:
Tasks – evaluations and cuttings:
Tasks – notes and drafts:
Tasks – surveys (wofoo):
Tasks – social media (twitter and bebo):
Tasks – emails:
Tasks – software (basecamp):
Tasks – software (media disk and cutting edge):
Tasks – time report and master time sheets:
Thank you!