Something about me always hates saying goodbye.
On my last day, my supervisor came over and presented a beautiful hamper on my desk with a meaningful card on top thanking me for my work. After doing my placement in IKEA for the past 3 months, I feel attached to it. For some reason or another, if one of my friends posts a picture, quote, link, or even just mentions the name "IKEA", I am immediately drawn to it. I'm not sure whether it was the ecstatic feelings that lunch-time gave me or whether it was the fact that I learnt so much from it.
I think it was the latter.
To be honest, although I did not take on a large and difficult public relations role, I still learnt so much. Over the course of the placement, I was involved in gathering information for press kits, meetings for campaigns and future plans, organising of in-store activities, handling donations and sponsorship applications, and preparing a calendar spreadsheet for the PR department.
Through all these activities, I had four learning outcomes:
1. There is an extremely high level of professionalism and communication that is expected as a PR professional
2. The importance of co-worker relationships to develop teamwork and unity within the organisation
3. The importance of maintaining strong and living relationships with the corporation's key media outlets
4. The importance of forward planning and preparation in building a brand image.
I hope you have been enjoying your placement like I have!
Regards,
Andrew Lyn
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Curtin Bentley
1 comment:
hi there,
i have gone through so many post and it seems most of the goodbye post have an emotional attachment to them, makes me wonder if my attitude when i left, was it healthy, normal or just weird...???
so on my last day, even though we all seemed to be quite tightly wound through he whole experience, nobody seemed to understand that i was leaving. After clearing my desk and walking out did they seem to react and it was more of an "oh so ur leaving already, it was so fun having you...stay in touch..."
i figured this was normal with the amount of interns they see a year, but it turns out with so many other companies, the employees and employers seem to have emotional attachments to each other, and im not so sure how healthy that is in a work environment.
Erick Manyara Mochache
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LUCT
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