Time flies as though we were in a time machine. Who else agrees with me? In
a blink of an eye, it’s already the third week of July which also means that
I've been working as a PR professional for two weeks.
Media monitoring has been my daily
task now. The first thing I do every morning after I arrive in the office -
switch on the computer, open the hotel’s Facebook page, check and reply the
inbox messages and comments. This isn't boring as the inquiries I get are
always different. What kind of bores me is reading several copies of newspaper
every day. I have to search for the news that is related to or about the hotel.
Cut, paste and file it (if there’s any). Other than the news of Dynasty Hotel,
I also have to do a competitor analysis - look for news about other hotels in
Miri to analyse what they have done. However this does not happen every day.
This kind of news just doesn't appear in the paper every day, which means I do
end up getting nothing sometimes.
Just when I thought my second week
was going to be just like my first week of working, here came a surprise! Okay,
I was shocked instead of surprised. I
was asked to prepare a speech for our Managing Director for the upcoming event,
Hari Raya Goodies Presentation. I know there is an event next week and I know
the MD is going to give a speech but little did I know I had to prepare the
speech. I have written speeches before but none of them was a “real” one, they
were all for assignments. I totally did not expect I would be given this task
as it was not stated in my job scope by the supervisor earlier. I worried too
much thus I have spent three days to
write a speech (what a shamefully long time to write a speech). Gratefully, my
supervisor did not reproach me for spending that long but she did point out my
shortcomings. She also told me she has helped to do some editing (I believed it
was a lot though she said some).
Anyway, it is good that my
shortcomings have been pointed out so I would know what and where I should
improve on. I have also learnt to be prepared for any task assigned to me. “Not
stated in the job scope” is definitely not an excuse for not doing the task
well.
Chang Song Enn
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2 comments:
Good surprise for you! I bet writing a speech is also a time to shine by showing your writing techniques that you learnt.
Looking forward for your next post!
same here, media releases that written by me has some grammar mistakes and had been corrected by my supervisor for a few times,at least we learn something and know where is our mistakes, so we can do a better job next time! haha All the best to your upcoming work tasks! :)
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