Woof! Can you believe it? Me, work and act like a real adult?!
Well, after few days of my working life, I would say, it was pretty awesome. For my friends who are currently doing Public Relations out there, I’m sure you and
I have something in common, we all are the people who like our life to be more spices,
you know, to be more interesting and surprising. Personally, I couldn't stand
to sit in front of my computer and work with those boring numbers for my whole
day (No offense to friends who are doing Accounting and Finance yay). And
working in the Corporate Communications Department under Interhill Group of
Companies once again proved me right on choosing PR.
My first day of work was amazing. I've imagined thousands of
situation that I might encountered on the first day of my work, you know, being
a rookie of a company, you might need to spend your whole day read through the
previous reports done by your superior,
make photocopy or even make a cup of coffee for your boss. Well, my
first day of work was far more interesting than that.
My superior has literally put me on the battlefield the
first hour of my day- To write a press release in one hour about one of
company’s CSR programmes- 365 Green Day. Press release is not a stranger to me but one hour was
a new challenge for me, especially you weren't involved in the activity and had
no idea of what the program is all about. BUT, I managed to do it...ON TIME!
After that, I were asked to make a couple of phone calls and
it was quite fun because few of them were actually my lecturers in Curtin. I
always thought of making a phone call could be really boring, but being a PR person,
it brings making phone call into a whole new level. When we normally make a
phone call, it is typical to say hi, who is this calling from, may I speak to who,
and why am I caliing….etc. BUT, what I did was: “Hi, how are you, where
have you been, how’s your dog, have you ever been to the new coffee shop, bla-bla-bla”, AND after few minutes of
chit-chatting, FINALLY I said: “Well, I’m actually calling to…..” I mean it
could be fun if you've met the person in the real life, however, when you’re
talking to a totally stranger and you've to act like you've known the person
for your entire life, that’s the different story. BUT still, I would say best
experience to start your first day.
So that was pretty much the first week of me being a PR
intern. Until next time.
Yee Shen Yap
3 comments:
I agree that phone calls become a totally new experience, taking small chat and turning it into key messages is very challenging but boy can it have results.
Well done on the challenging one hour turn around for your first media release.
Good luck with the rest of your placement.
Wow! is really tough to complete media release in an hour time I used at least half day but is good that u manage to complete it on time!:)
Hi Yee Shen,
Your placement sounds great and it is so impress to hear that you have done a press release in an hour!A really good experience for you!
If I am the one who was assigned to come out with a news release within 1 hour, I will definitely fail to do it on time haha! You've done a great job! A big clap for you, Yee Shen! Very well done!
For me, phone call is a big challenge as sometimes I really can't understand people who speak very fast with unique ascent. It could be the hardest part for me but I will need to work harder on it too.
Hope to get a chance to read on your media release one day!
Good luck and all the best too!
Regards,
Yee Ting
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