The Journey Began

Assalamualaikum!

Greetings from Malaysia!

Hope everyone is doing well and having a great time in your internship.

My name is Yvette and I am currently doing my internship in Curtin University Sarawak Campus’s Corporate Communication Department.  Unlike most of you, I am working as a part-time intern in the department as I am also taking another 3 media subjects in this semester. 

Working and studying at the same time is quite tough, but till now, I think that I still can handle it. And I am very glad to get the opportunity to work at the department not only because they give me an environment to learn as much as I can, but also they give me the flexibility to arrange my time whenever I am busy with some projects of other subjects.

Corporate Communication department is formed with a total of 6 people who are our manager Nicholas Leong, two officers, Marcella and Ling Yii Yang, two designers, Flynn Aladdin and Dennis Lian, and also one web designer, Wee Yee Boon.  Marcella is in charge of Public Relations and Events, while Ling is responsible for Marketing and Publication.  I am assigned by Nicholas to work and learn from Marcella, however, he also encouraged me to learn from other staffs and explore something new.

Just like many of you, my first job and everyday task is press clipping. (No doubt.)

My office table.
As you can notice, there is a stack of newspaper beside my table...
(I was like ''@.@'' when i first saw it.)
p/s: the person reading newspaper beside my table is our web designer, Wee ^^

The department is (kind of) relieved for my joining as I am the only one who can read Chinese very well.  I could not imagine that they actually memorized the word ‘Curtin’ in Chinese (which is ‘科廷’) and try to find in the Chinese newspaper before I come.

Besides that, I also get the chance in helping out on Ling’s project, which is Talent Hunting for models and hosts.  We are hunting for models for our new posters, magazines and also calendars 2012.  Hosts talent will be noticed for our future events emcee. Besides, we are also looking for voice talent for our radio advertisement. Not only helping out at the registration booth, I also helped him to record sound samples for us to choose from.

In conclusion for my first week, I think that Corporate Communication Department has put more attention on corporate branding (e.g. advertising on newspaper and radio) which aims to get more attention from the public, especially community from West Malaysia. 

Feel free to leave any questions and comments. =)

Cheers,

Yvette Eng

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*Note: Curtin University Sarawak Campus is in East Malaysia.