My first day at work was basically to touch-base with the operations and people behind the scenes. I was assigned to work under the directions of Badminton WA's executive officer, Mr Himanshu Thacker. My main role in the organization is to promote the sport through writing articles to be published in community newspapers, event organizing and also ensuring stakeholders' satisfaction.
My first task was to write an article regarding the State Under-17s team who will be travelling to Wellington, New Zealand to compete in the Under 17 Australasian Championships. It was a good feeling given i was able to put my skills acquired from my Public Relations units in Curtin University
After completing that task, i was assigned to be part of the planning and organizing committee for the Australian Under 15 Junior Championships. The tournament to be held in Perth on 2 October 2011 will attract junior players from all over the country. The objective is to ensure the tournament goes smoothly and provide the players a fun and enjoyable experience of West Australia.
The Autumn Tournament which will be held on 16-17 April (this coming weekend) will also be part of my jobscope. I have been promoting the tournament in order to increase participations. Traditionally, tournaments organized by Badminton WA attracts 130-150 entries and i hope that with my hard work, tournament entries will increase. (Pictures and end result of my hard work will be posted up soon)
Right after this tournament, i will be back performing office tasks. I am targeting to approach a few corporate companies to be sponsors of Badminton WA. As badminton is not a top-tier sport in Australia, funding is a struggle. I will be looking forward to that challenge.
I still have another 10 days of work left with Badminton WA. And during this time, i hope to be even more productive. I hope that my 20 days with Badminton WA will be though of as a positive addition rather than a surplus to requirements.
2 comments:
You are so lucky to have gotten an internship for a job that you really like, especially in a sports-related department! Are you going to help in the event this weekend since you played a part in it? It would be good experience to have a look at how your effort has played out and to see how successful it is. From there maybe you would be able to know what are the improvements that you are able to make if you do these kind of events again.
I'm Florance Kalaemang,m doing my final semester in Likmkokwing university in Malaysia.
Good for you that you a working at Badminton WA,badminton is my sports,i was playing it like since junior school till senior school. I never got the chance to pay here in Malaysia,but m planning to continue playing it when i get back to Botswana.I was doing my internship in Botswana for 2 months at Department of Road Transport and Safety.I was also writing media releases,event management and also i was working with different Department stakeholders being Botswana Police,Botswana Motor Vehicle Funds and many more.
I like event management,during my internship i was assign to be in the publicity team,for the ministry's award which will be held next months (May).We had like 3 teams being;Publicity and entertainment ,Administration and logistics, and Adjudication team.As a Publicity and Entertainment team we were responsible for Advertising the event through posters and brochures,since the event is only for ministry's staff,this posters were sent to all difference ministry department country wide to inform the staff about this upcoming event.We were also assigned to design invitation cards and award certificates, to look for music bands,MC 's ,DJ and dance groups that will be performing during the event,and also responsible for writing speech.
Wishing you all the best in your event.I hope you will learn a lot during the event and share with us your experience after the event.
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