CORPORATE WORLD ISN'T BAD AT ALL.

Name: Jacqueline Monei

Campus: LUCT

Hi All

I would like to highlight that my internship with the prestigious Ministry of Minerals Energy and Water Resources had been a roller coaster experience that opened my eyes to the way the corporate world operates and its expectations. This internship was like a mid wife that delivered me into the hands of the corporate world. For the first time, I got to experience the corporate world of public relations first hand and learnt how patience and keeping good media relations is a virtue.

As I was working with the gigantic Ministry of Botswana and I was based at the Ministry’s Headquarters which was providing leadership and policy direction to the departments and parastatals. My first week at Ministry of Minerals Energy and Water Resources I had to attend a meeting in which the Ministry and Public Relation officers and directors from different departments of the Ministry were planning a conference and I was part of the steering committee for the upcoming conference.

We were left with only a month for the conference to be held and were working under pressure and this conference was a bit hectic because it involved the President of the country and as we all know that where the president is involved it means lot had to be done. My supervisor was the steering wheel for this upcoming conference and that meant we had a lot to do as the headquarters PR practioners.

The conference was under the name Coal Roadmap Pitso which was held on 31^st January 2012. At the meeting the steering committee had to come up with the plan for the Coal Roadmap Pitso. The Pitso was mainly to provide a clear and a transparent view of the Government intentions for the development of coal resources thereby giving investors more confidence around their long term strategy and implementation plans. This Pitso attracted stakeholders from both government and private sector.

 In this 1^st week of the meeting the steering team had to come up with the Theme for the Coal Roadmap Pitso, they had to agree on the venue to hold this conference, twho will e giving the speeches, which was the President of Botswana and the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources. They had to decide who to invite to the conference, who will be speakers, or the presenters, the team had to come up with the program for the main day and the conference material (Publications, promotional packages) so forth and so forth. As the steering team we allocated tasks among ourselves so that the next meeting we show the progress as we were meeting 3 times a week.

Till next time

xoxo :)