“Morning everyone”. I walk into the office and look up at the clock. 8:57. Just on time.
I head over to my desk in the far corner, take off my coat and put my bag down. The office is pretty empty today, as it’s a Friday; most people work from home on Friday’s. But this suits me just fine – sometimes I need a bit of quiet first thing in the morning.
I switch my computer on, open up Google Chrome and go to the company’s LinkedIn and Twitter pages. I scroll through the various feeds and interact with posts from the past 17 hours or so, liking and sharing customer content and other relevant posts, responding to comments and messages, reading over how many views our pages have received, etc. I always find that this helps me ease into my day and get accustomed to the early start.
After a good 15-20 minutes of this (and a strong urge for a second cup of coffee), I’m ready to get down to business.
At this point you may find yourself wondering what my actual internship is (and how you can get the same one, where apparently all I do is drink coffee and scroll through social media). I should probably explain…
The company that I’m interning for is called Sefas Innovation, located in Bristol, UK. Sefas is a technological organisation that designs a software for the purpose of helping other businesses and companies successfully manage communications with their own clients and customers. Before you jump to the conclusion that I’m a tech wizard, let me stop you right there – I’m not. Not even close. What I do for Sefas has very little relation to all the tech stuff that goes on within the company.
In fact, my job lies in marketing, which ultimately revolves around promoting Sefas and their products, as well as upholding a positive corporate image. What I work on varies from day to day, whether it’s creating and distributing email campaigns, inputting sales leads into Salesforce, researching and understanding competitor SEO key words, or even rebranding existing content for use on the company website – there’s never a shortage of work to get done.
Today I’ve been tasked with writing the quarterly newsletter, which gets sent out to clients four times a year. When I first started at Sefas, the thought of doing an assignment such as this was daunting. Now, a good two months later, I’m not worried in the slightest about what I must do.
Admittedly, I ask for a bit of help along the way from my supervisor, mostly with regards to writing the content. But the rest of it is relatively straightforward, and I’ve completed it all by around 15:00.
For the last couple of hours of the workday, I head on back to social media. This time round I’m working on creating some content, so as to generate interest in the three webinars that our sales staff are holding over the next few weeks. This may sound somewhat simple, but there’s a fair amount that needs to be done and, before I know it, the digital clock in the bottom corner of my screen reads 17:08.
Time to go home.
I begin the process of closing everything on my computer, shutting it down, and packing up all my belongings. The office has suddenly livened up as everyone discusses their weekend plans, and there’s talk of going to the pub for a few post-work drinks.
Man, I love my job.
I smile and make my way towards the door.