Just Do It

I am a perfectionist.

Guess what I discovered? I am also super creative.

During my internship I found that I could come up with great ideas in meetings and I really enjoyed working with themes for events. I got to design a logo and advertisement layout and people spoke highly of my ideas. I even pitched a few ideas to the team and had them taken on board. I gave everything a go. Sure, many things had to be edited or refined, but things got done-and with great results.

In the past I would let my ideas of perfectionism (and fear of failure) stop me from starting a project because I wasn’t sure I had the skills or knowledge to get the level of result I wanted. 

Now I’ve finished my internship and been offered a paid project. The nature of the project requires specialised knowledge-which I don’t have-but am confident I can easily learn.

Here is what I suggest:

Start with creativity

Polish with perfectionism

Just doing it is a good start

It shows initiative and ability to take feedback.

It allows freedom to bring ideas to the table.

It makes work a lot more fun.

It helps you stand out from the crowd.

 

 

I would love to hear what you are learning about yourself through your internship.

 

Hey everyone!

I’m sad to say that my internship has finally come to an end and the last two months of my internship went by in what now feels like a blink of an eye.

I truly am grateful that I had the opportunity to do my internship at the Shire of Kalamunda as I know that from it, I have definitely gained and expanded my skills in writing, communication, networking and that I have also further developed a stronger work ethic.

From beginning my internship with nerves and questioning my ability to complete work and perform up to the standards required within the Shire, I can happily say that I managed to pull through and performed to the best of my ability.

One of the highlights of my time at the Shire was being involved in the “Vote NO, Save Kalamunda” campaign, reading articles over the local 102.5FM radio station and proudest moment of all, seeing my works featured on the Kalamunda Shire website for the public to see.

I don’t think that I had always fully acknowledged the hard work and understood the effort the public relations team puts in to the operations of a company/organisation. I also didn’t actually realise how much responsibility resided on the departments’ shoulders especially during times of a crisis. However this all came to light during my internship.

Furthermore, throughout my internship I learned that the future of a company or organisation is not only based on finances, productivity and management… But also how well the company understands and communicates with its stakeholders and the public at large – a vital aspect of great importance.

I’ve learnt that PR is critical and essential in conveying messages and information on serious and also less significant issues.

Having the public relations internship as a compulsory feature of a public relations degree is a great idea for the students and I am glad that I got to be apart of it as it truly gives us, the students, a real feel and real life experience of what the future holds for us. And as a result has made me appreciate and value my degree even further.

To the other students who’ve completed their internship – hope you enjoyed your internship as much as I have and good luck for what the future holds!

To those students who are yet to embark on this final journey of their degree – keep an opened mind; make the most of your experience, as there is a lot to learn and good luck!

- Kiranjeet

1ife Suicide Prevention Seminar

 

The focus of the seminar is taking a coordinated approach to suicide prevention; it is a networking opportunity for people from whole of corporate, government and community with a shared vision to help prevent this worthy cause. 

This is the first Momentum’s event that I have the honor to be involved in, working closely together with the other intern girls makes it an even more brilliant experience.

They say event management can be a stressful affair. It was about 8:30 in the morning we arrived the function center at the Technology Park after a long drive with irritating traffics. Everything was all over the places. There were boxes of media materials and booklets on the floor and tables that need to be sorted. The task was to put all the materials into one media kit and place them on each chair in the seminar. We somehow turned this process into a little production line, it was amazingly efficient, each person allocated one task and pass the un-finished media kit on to the next person which the last person then start placing them onto the chairs.

If you think something will go wrong, it probably will. While people were running around were busy robots someone discovered that the box of name tags is nowhere to be found. We were responsible to organize the name batches and provide to guests upon arrival. After minutes of panicking the box arrived just before the beginning of the seminar – lucky!

The most stressful task is finally done; everyone was relived and started making their ways to the coffee section. The next task is to groom guests and assist them with name batches and signing forms. There was almost like a competition between our intern girls. In fact, everyone was working so hard and trying to contribute the best performance in assisting and grooming the guests at the entrance. It was totally a war in the workforce, everyone was fighting to get more tasks – a very competitive also highly striving and power-driven environment.

There was a dilemma when everyone was busy getting themselves into the seminar. One sophisticated short-hair lady walked in which I groomed and questioned her name in order to allocate her a name batch. She told me that she was Dr. Sally Talbot and that she might not be on the list because she received a very late invitation as of the night before. I remember her. She is the shadow minister of the Disability Service, Mental Health and Child Protection – a special guest of today’s seminar. I remember sending her emails about coming into the seminar yesterday in the office. There was recently been an overtaking in the position, which the former shadow minister has been replace, the department did not inform us till the very last minute as a result we could only invite Dr. Talbot as a special guest to the seminar instead of a spokesperson. I remember how panicking the situation was and there she is standing right in front of me. Surprisingly she was not a bossy person at all, she was all friendly and nice that made me feel like I didn’t look after her the way I should. She is one of those successful and well-known people out there who just want to be treated as normal people. I admire people like that.

The rest of the seminar went extremely well and it was overall a very successful one. I could never imagine learning this much in one day’s event assistant. Thanks to the amazing team and wonderful speakers.