work placement programme

Work Placement Programme

Rodrigo d’Orey Carneiro15.06.09 – 11.09.09

Organization’s Business:• Founded in 2004;

• Based in Hale - Manchester;

• Single-site business;

• Peppermint is a PR Office that excels at generating reams of positive media coverage for its clients from memorable corporate brands, website design and literature to results-driven direct email and internet marketing;

• From arresting ad campaigns to compelling awards entries they develop marketing tools that work hard for their clients.

The company:

Departments:

Peppermint PR

Newspapers, Magazines, Radio and Press Releases.

Clients:

Work environment:• The staff usually work up to 10 hours per day;

• Sometimes the staff work overtime and are paid for it;

• One break for lunch (flexible) and daily meetings (at the end of the day);

• 2 weeks holidays - twice a year;

• Sometimes freelancers are required to help;

• One room for everyone.

Hierarchy: Suzy and Jean-Philippe Glaskie(Directors)Jane Carroll

(Account Director)Owen LaBeck

Kirsty Hogarth

Tamsin Sless

Emma Jones

Graham Robinson(Digital Director)

Adam d’Arcy

Rachel Wardle(Office Assistant)Me(Work Placement)

The staff:

Colleagues’ characteristics: • Open-minded, easy-going and hard-working;

• Everyone works as a team;

• Although a lot of work needs to be done all the time, no one gets stressed;

• Very communicative;

• Friendly, polite and welcoming;

• Helpful and patient.

Safety at work:• Health and Safety guide;

• First aid box in the kitchens;

• Fire doors;

• Fire alarms;

• Fire exits;

• Signs whilst the floor is getting cleaned;

• Prohibited lifting heavy boxes or whatever it is.

Using my skills:

Oral Communication

Chats;

Opinions;

Doubts;

Work to do;

Break time.

Written Communication

Notes;

Work plan;

Emails;

Software;

Researches.

Using my skills:

Reading

Newspapers, magazines and press releases;

Cuttings;

Response sources;

Update and organize files and folders;

Researches.

Using my skills:

Working with others

Rachel – Supervisor

Charlene and Graham – Social Media (Panda Drinks)

Tamsin – Cuttings

Jane – Researches

Kirsty – Social Media and Researches (Swizzwels Matlow)

Using my skills:

Improving my own knowledge

Vocabulary;

Formal and informal language;

Expressing myself;

Public Relations world;

How an office works in the United Kingdom.

Using my skills:

Tasks – evaluations and cuttings:

Tasks – notes and drafts:

Tasks – surveys (wofoo):

Tasks – social media (twitter and bebo):

Tasks – emails:

Tasks – software (basecamp):

Tasks – software (media disk and cutting edge):

Tasks – time report and master time sheets:

Thank you!