First Ever Proper Internship

Good day everyone, I am Stevenson Tan from Curtin, Miri Campus and this will be my first blog about my PR Internship. Currently, I am having my internship in Corporate Communication Department of Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia which is also my university. I have been studying in Curtin for the 4th years but this is the first time I came into the campus as a staff so it is a very interesting and joyful experience for me. I feel very comfortable to work here because I have been through a lot of different things in this location so stay tune for more and more fun updates!!

Following is a brief info about myself. I am currently in final year and final semester of PR and Marketing and I am born and raised locally in Miri. Prior to this internship, I have only done part time jobs in different company so this is my first proper internship in my life. This internship is guided by the experienced senior corporate communication officer of Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia, Ms. Marcella and along with my lecturer Dr. Kamala. Therefore, it doesn't cause a lot of problem when I am enrolling and settling all the relevant stuff.

I have started this internship few weeks ago and I am learning a lot of stuffs that i have never thought of before with joy. Little sum about my job scope here is basically doing media clipping daily and also to keep the media schedule up to date. It looks like an easy job to read newspaper and go through online news but when it have 7-8 sets of newspaper everyday, it will be a tough one after every weekend especially the long weekend. It takes time and energy to read and look for relevant information but it really helps a lot for us to become a better PR practitioner. Why do I say so? Keeping ourselves up to date on current issues is never a proper job prior to this so I doesn't feel that it is important to know about it. However, after weeks of reading news daily, i really found myself become more up to date to any information and when people are talking about it, I really do know most of them. And that really become an added value for me to be a better PR practitioner and also a better person.

Other than that, I also have some other task like writing media releases, staff database input, attending meetings and a lot more interesting stuff to do and it will be explain in the next blog so remember to check it out soon.

Below is something about my working space. My workspace is very spacious, well equipped and at a very nice position of the office. As it is shown in the picture below.

 

Media Clipping is my everyday task so there will always be newspaper on my desk and files to keep the relevant news regarding to Curtin University, the competitors and also about industry.

The Corporate Communication Department of Curtin University, Sarawak Malaysia is located at John Curtin Building and outside the New Study Area as shown as picture below.

Some other stuff will be available in others blog post so stay tune for more internship related information.

Regards,

Stevenson Tan Jin Heng