Marketing Intern Review

Having just completed my two week internship in the Marketing department at the Graduate Recruitment Bureau (GRB), I feel compelled to write this review. I have worked in other similar set-ups for office-type work experience but the experience at GRB is highly different. As opposed to the inter-competitive vibe that can often lead staff to be too pre-occupied to pay attention to the intern’s questions, the environment at GRB couldn’t be further from this. I found that staff at GRB actively encouraged questions and probed me, for example, about what I felt about their current affiliate scheme. I was even asked to write a document expressing aspects I thought worked really well and those that could perhaps be improved, which they assured me was very useful to them.

This was most definitely an internship where I felt as though my work was valued. I wasn’t left to do menial tasks, I was allow to really get involved from editing documents that were going to be used by other members in the Marketing team to calculating various sums on Excel in order to find out highly useful information for the Marketing Manager – Dan Evans. This is definitely an environment I would love to work in, in the future and I believe that it would definitely appeal to most graduates!

Working within the marketing team at GRB, I got to know this department the best. As the department consisted of 4 people, I got a chance to speak to all of them, and all without question were very friendly throughout my stay – always making sure I was okay and occupying me for the whole two weeks, lining up lots of different interesting tasks for me. These tasks included writing several articles – I managed to write 7 during my stay, one of which was in fact published on the GRB website (in the news/blog section, if you’re interested!).

I updated their social media sites, scheduling specific tweets on the GRB twitter account for the next 3 weeks (in the process, learning how to use a new website named Hootsuite – one of many new websites I’ve learned how to use properly during my stay). I then created three new hashtags for the GRB twitter account and made 60 new tweets that will be used in the upcoming year and I continually updated the GRB Pinterest boards focussing on CV/recruitment/internship/interview tips and memes. These are just a few of the many different tasks I completed during the two weeks! Experience with these new computer programs should definitely come in handy in future!

The insight was well structured, I was continually set different tasks throughout my two weeks here. Besides my tasks in the marketing department which I have prior mentioned, I was also lucky enough to shadow different members of the company, from resourcers to recruitment and IT consultants, all of whom sat down with me and took time out of their day to tell/show me what they did and answer all of (what I’m sure were fairly tedious) questions! However, even if I was just in the kitchen, whoever was in there would always engage in a friendly chat.

I really liked the physical set-up of the company. There are many departments on the same floor which encourages a very good level of communication between the firm, with constant interaction in person or via email to either congratulate achievements of individuals in the firm for hitting targets (encouraging incentives) or a funny joke, to give members of staff a smile while they work! This company produces a relaxed but motivated environment. Everyone is constantly interacting but also focussed. The dress code is informal meaning everyone is comfortable yet still driven to work to the best of their ability, particularly because many of the jobs here are commission-based meaning that this company cleverly strikes a perfect balance of being fun but focused. This environment stretches outside the realm of the working week – a Friday evening visit the local pub often occurs giving the company staff a chance to wind down after a busy week at work. They also host fun quarterly events such as the ‘Volleyball and Burger’ afternoon which interns have the opportunity to participate in if their stay coincides with the events! All the members of staff I encountered in my two weeks were both welcoming and approachable.

I didn't have any personal training so this question isn't particularly applicable to my experience.

It gave me a very clear indication of what a full time role would entail. The staff made me feel very accepted within the company from the beginning, I wasn't treated differently to the other staff (in a good way).

From the offset, it was evident that the company culture was definitely an appealing environment and the insight helped me to get further involved with it.

It was definitely helpful in terms of opening different doors to what is on offer out there - in terms of marketing and recruitment consultancy.

Yes! Please refer back to my shadowing comment. I shadowed, an experience hire consultant, an IT consultant and a resourcer.

They participate in numerous fresher and career fairs for different university - a process in which I helped them with i.e. helping to sort out various train journeys.

Absolutely! Refer to my comments about the Friday evenings and the quarterly events.

Definitely, I will be recommending it to everyone!