So the first two weeks of my PR internship have flown by and as I finally get the chance to sit back and reflect upon the experience so far, I can safely say that it has been A LOT to juggle. To give a little background first, I am undertaking my internship at SRB Legal, which is a medium sized law firm based across two whole floors in the St Martins tower on St Georges terrace (which is a stunning location to say the least!) My typical day is evenly divided between my internship and my actual job at SRB as an Accounts Clerk, which are both very demanding roles, I so quickly came to learn.
On the first day of my internship I was given several tasks that were mine to look after, and execute somewhat quickly. I had to organise an End of Financial Year Function (28 June 2019), organise a Red Nose Day fundraiser (26 June 2019), start using SRB’s LinkedIn page to share updates, make two job posts on LinkedIn and market accordingly. Now, given the fact that I had two weeks to organise two events on such short notice, I got to planning straight away.
What I quickly realised, was that I needed a good system and fast! My inbox was flooded with both my internship and accounting emails, that I found my head all over the place and needed to find a way to bring it back. I took some time (which I didn’t really have) to stop and organise everything by creating folders, categories, task and two separate calendars. I really had to separate my roles and only deal with each role in my dedicated hours. Although this seems like a quick task, it really took a lot of thought to find the easiest way around it all. Even once I believed I had devised the right system, upon putting the system into practice I sadly realised I still had a lot of tweaking to do. So the first week of my internship, was certainly an eye opener and definitely full on. Never has a work week gone so quickly and it really showed me how critical it is to be SUPER organised.
These past two weeks, I have felt the real world pressure on what it takes to plan and coordinate events, along with the pressure of turning my basic understanding of LinkedIn, into a deep and technical understanding of LinkedIn. My plate has been full with hands on learning and lots of research, but I have also had a great supervisor to give me guidance. I’m hoping that now I have a solid system in place and have found my groove, that the events to come in the near future will be handled in the best way possible. In the mean time, I have two events to coordinate this week, LinkedIn Campaign Manager to learn and LinkedIn Talent Solutions to master. Although, this un-official to do list is small, I know it will be no easy task to conquer. Thank God I now have a system (“PHEW”)!!
