Oh, and the first company asked for me to come back for more later in the summer. Guess I did something right.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I LOVED IT!
Ahem. Dignified now.
It was exactly what I needed to get an insight into the day-to-day running of a PR office. I drafted press releases and wow sheets (basically visual press releases/posters, showcasing some new products under a snappy headline/blurb), I called a couple of journalists (terrifying! They had the numbers for every major publication in the UK! Everything from Vogue and Grazia to Home and Garden and The Times!), I e-mailed clients with information and journalists in search of certain products to fit their themed articles, I researched local activity groups who might be interested in a new GO Outdoors store opening (one of the clients), as well as a bunch of normal admin stuff like labelling 100+ lookbooks to be posted out and keeping the journalist and publishers database up to date.
And I loved it. Every minute of it. Even the really boring, simple tasks, which the girls in the office apologised profusely for making me do. I couldn't care less, I was learning either way. It's just the right balance between creativity and organisation for me - I feel like I'm too creative (and not good enough at maths...) for a plain marketing job, but neither do I have the abundance of ideas and off-the-wall thinking required for advertising.
PR is slap bang in the middle, just like I am.
The team was so lovely as well. It's only a very small Leeds office of a much larger London company, and they made sure to ask about me and keep me in the loop with what they were doing, while I asked as many questions as possible. At the end of the week I was stunned to be presented with a gorgeous bunch of flowers! And upon hearing that I was heading straight off to another placement this week, they asked me to get back in touch in August to see if I can go back for another couple of weeks. ME! AGAIN! Yeahhhhhhhh!
[On the downside, getting to work for 9am living where I live is a bloomin' nightmare. Hello 6.45am starts.]
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