Business As Usual

Today I spent all day working at Club Solutions. The project that I’ve been put in charge of is the “Variety Kids Great Grand Final Lunch” auction, and it’s very exciting being to be given such an amount of responsibility as an intern.

I spent most of this morning on the phone, along with the other Monash intern, trying to contact as many people as possible to get donations, so that we can raise as much money for Variety Kids as possible.

I then spent this afternoon creating a poster to send to sponsors who were able to donate to thank them and acknowledge their input. It was a perfect outlet for all my creative energies! I also updated the database and was briefed on how Club Solutions approaches all of their social media. I even got to write the final post for the weekend on twitter #amazing.

Today was a bit of a hectic day.

First of all, I spent the morning working at Club Solutions as an intern. I got the position by applying for the Monash BusEco Business Internship Program and was lucky enough to be successful. Whilst it is a very small company, I love the experience that I am getting. Despite the fact that I am an intern, my ideas are always valued, and to my surprise I actually haven't done any photocopying yet! But to be honest, my favourite part is being able to wear sophisticated clothing – I feel so grown up.

This afternoon I had a big presentation for my marketing communications subject. As it is about creativity we thought that we’d use ‘prezi’ to make our presentation ‘creative’. However my partner has a MacBook and I have a dinosaur PC, so it was quite a challenge trying to get the Mac and PC to speak to each other! Doing the presentation so early in the semester was quite a challenge as my brain doesn’t usually kick in until week six, however getting it over and done with is a huge relief.

Hey lovely people, my name’s Julia and I am a 3rd year Marketing/Management student. I came to Monash not knowing a single person and have since found an entire army of friends who are exactly like me!

I am really enjoying the marketing side of my degree and am very excited for the upcoming Marketing Ball run by MMSS. I am also very passionate about volunteering. Through Monash I was put in touch with VESA and at the end of last year I spent 3 weeks helping out local communities in Ecuador. It truly was one of the most rewarding and memorable experiences of my life.