Chilly perks of the job

Being in an agency does have its ups and downs. I would say I am the type that would not favour sitting in the office for long hours as I am more of a hands-on individual. Being here at CROWD does allow me to do both work and play, and I truly enjoyed that. I feel blessed knowing that my colleagues are always up for some adventure and we would always make the best out of the littlest time we got off. 

I believe in the phrase - "Work hard, play harder" 

I was glad I got the chance to apply that here by working at CROWD. Some days when we go out for meetings, we would have small conversations about basically anything under the Sun. The best is when we can enjoy event perks! 

One of my most memorable one was the official launch of 2 Degree Ice Art 2013/2014 that I assisted one of my colleague, Cassaundra on. I remembered almost the entire office having a ball of a time going in the -15 degrees space built just for these Harbin ice sculptors to showcase their famous ice sculptures! Some of the featured ones were Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and even some other famous landmarks!

Above is a photo of me and my colleagues including one of the online magazine's journalist!

And here's the famous Eiffel tower in ice form! And completely touchable!

There was even an ice bar where guests could enjoy beers from an ice glass! Truly an amazing experience (:

I came back from the event feeling very thankful that I was blessed with friendly colleagues that I could both enjoy my work with and also have fun during events with! 

This journey have been nothing but enriching to me and I cant wait to share more!

Till the next time, 

Faizah.

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A shot at an experience.

 

Hello dear readers! Happy 2014! 

Nespresso was under my company's retainer account and they have shared many fond memories over previous launches before. I was honored to be a part of this launch thanks to my superiors. The above photo was proof of a success media launch event that my company organized together with the people from Nespresso. That's me and the people who were involved in the event last month! (:

It was barely my first week of internship when I was asked to help out during the event itself. It was exciting and fun and we had to make sure everything falls in place and the guests were equipped with the press releases. I had the best time bonding with some of my colleagues who were there at the event and got the opportunity to learn on-hand what happens during an event. 

They are now anticipating their official product launch that is going to happen next week. My colleagues and I have spent the past month planning and making sure the event falls goes smoothly, up to the littlest details like food and decor. I was sometimes tasked to call suppliers and agents to give us a quotation on their services, like a barista, for example. 

Initially, I was nervous about calling a total stranger and inquiring on their services, but after a few tries and learning how to be more confident when talking to people over the phone, I finally got the hang of it. I even get to call media and have a chat with them after following up on the invites. It was indeed something I've learnt beyond the textbooks. 

I am looking forward to yet another successful event next week!

Will share more exciting experiences soon!

Cheers, 
Faizah
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Review, Edit and Review.

How time goes so fast! I am in my third week at WACOSS and enjoying every moment.

This week has been all about Reviewing, Editing and Reviewing. My job this week is to assist with the Membership Review.  As apart of this review the communications team needed to come up with a survey to send out to WACOSS members. This task allowed the communications team to pinpoint areas that WACOSS felt they needed to improve on.

The Membership Survey was being sent out to over 300 members. The three main areas in which WACOSS wanted gain feedback from included keeping our members informed, how well our members support the WACOSS Social Policy agenda and the availability of access to training and other services WACOSS can provide.

The communications team had to come up with questions to identify the above areas and make sure that the questions we asked gave us valuable feedback that we could use. This would help WACOSS develop strategies and solutions to address member satisfaction.

Completing this task taught me the importance of language and writing. It was important that we used WACOSS terminology so members could clearly understand what was being asked.  There is a ‘fine art’ as my colegeu at WACOSS called to using WACOSS language to speak to our members in anything that is produced in the marketing and communications department.

The survey took numerous edits, reviewing sessions, meetings and a lot of print outs.  But finally , we were able to send out the survey earlier this week. Responses are still coming through and results are not clear yet. I ma excited to see what comes out of this survey and how well members think WACOSS is performing. This tactic is an important part in how WACOSS evaluates there own performance and how they can improves as a member organisation.

Only 1 more week to go at WACOSS and I am going to miss this place and the lovely people I have been working with.

Until next time…

Carla Lo Presti

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Bentley Campus

I need more than 24 hours a day!

Its been about 3 weeks since my last post and I'm really busy juggling with my full time job and my internship with Thomson Catering. It will be great that i have more than 24 hours a day!

I've been busy wrapping up the website stuffs and doing the materials (calenders & vehicle dress up) that provide awareness of the company and the new website.

I am also updating the customers database so that we are able to mail out calenders once its done.

Despite the hectic schedule, there's free meals provided and helpful colleagues to work with! :)

I need to start drafting my report... =(