Greg joined us for a week of work experience during his GCSE year. He is currently in year 11 at STRS. Here are his word's about his work experience with apt...
In the days that lead up to my work experience week at APT I was in a panic. My names Greg and I’m currently doing a week of work experience here at APT, I don’t have the greatest track record for making a fool out of myself so it was understandable thoughts of me ruining something, falling down the stairs or anything else that would make me look like an idiot kept creeping into my brain and refusing to leave!
The time eventually came to begin my W/E and very quickly I realised that the week would be good! Everyone was really nice and welcoming, I instantly felt like I’d been there for ages and I immediately got on with some work. For the first day was spent mainly testing and playing around with the many types of programs that APT have like ‘aptmailer’ which the company uses to email all the people on the database about latest offers for clients like ‘Good Taste Foods’ and ‘Compass Holidays.’ It was really great designing newsletters etc. although I had it in my head that I as somehow going to end up accidently sending one out to the thousands of emails with some rubbish on it! However it all turned out fine!
Part of this week was spent doing research for news and information that Emma could tweet about for one of the companies so that more followers might become aware of the business. This was great; I got to read about all Jeremy Clarkson’s antics as part of work! A lot of my time here at APT was spent writing up a report on the statistics for one of the Clients websites. I really enjoyed this because I like analysing statistics and things like that. Working out reasons for the dips and peaks on the amount of visits to the sites and times was challenging but interesting, one thing i still remain to work out however is why the website for holidays had its most views last year on the day the world was meant to end!
On Wednesday I was introduced to data-checking which I was told would be really boring, however I happily did it and it wasn’t that bad! I can see how after a few days of doing it your brain might just give up but in the time I spent doing it I thought it was quite good! Thursday morning was great; I got to browse Skysports looking at all the fixtures etc. and this was for work! My task was to design a sports calendar for a client. Although i struggled to find anything but the Curling championships for the latter months of 2012 which was a shame.
Friday was spent doing my favourite aspects of the week. In the morning I had to write ‘today messages’ for SOHO’s webpage in which I had to come up with cheeky and energetic messages that would encourage people to head to the SOHO stores! This was really good because I got to be creative with what I was saying and that’s probably my favourite part of marketing! After that I wrote this, which I’m enjoying writing. I just hope you enjoy reading it!
Overall my time here at APT was great! Unlike a lot of my friends doing W/E I always had something to do and everything I did I enjoyed! If I’m being completely honest I came to APT to almost write off marketing as a career option but there’s so much more to marketing that I thought and now marketing has become a genuine likely Career path!! Finally I’d like to thank everyone here at APT for letting me do my work experience here and most of all making it enjoyable, and especially Emma and Victoria who looked after me!
P.S I think he fact everyone here makes great tea deserves a mention ! J
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