a new prac story!

Blog number one!!!
Ok, so I have been a little bit behind the eight ball with my blogging; this is my first blog... And I have all but completed my placement!
Therefore I am going to do a bit of a retrospective look at my time, how I found my placement, what I initially thought about my prospective role, how I progressed with my tasks and what I feel now I have finished my placement and am looking at the daunting task of graduating and getting a ‘real’ job!
So I started to look for a placement as soon I got home from my Christmas holiday. It started with me reading an article about brain cancer in the paper which prompted me to contact the cancer council. So I contacted them and sent my resume. It turned out to be my old copy of my resume! Woops, so I learnt to be very certain about what I was attaching very early on. While I did send them the correct copy of my resume they never got back to me and when I called them a week later they apologised and said they weren’t looking for anyone.
From there I approached WA tourism through a contact of mine, I looked at possible mining companies and contacted a lady from Alcoa, and she was very helpful but could only take someone in the second half of the year. By this time I was fairly despondent. So when I was visiting a friend in the Swan Valley I asked if she knew of anything I could do, she told me about a lady at the City of Swan who was looking to start a PR strategy for food in the Swan Valley. I happened to know her as she was my tutor for tourism and leisure marketing a few semesters ago, I went home, got her contact details off the internet and I called her that day, she said to send my resume through and by the end of the day she had said that she would love to have me, when could I start and could I send through insurance asap! It was so uplifting to finally be accepted somewhere as I had really started to lose hope.
I started my work with the City of Swan a week later.
The moral of my story: don’t give up and if you are, just ask, chances are that someone you know will know someone and it will all be ok!
End of story one.
Robyn
xxx