What do I do?
If you’re curious as to what I do for a living at the moment, it’s okay. What I’m doing is still currently being defined at my current job. As you can see on my “About Me” page, I do take on various roles at my job that include being a trainee manager and consultant. I also do a lot of project management, social media marketing and consulting. Other than that, my current company is also starting up a Creative Services division, and I’m part of the team working on it.
All that aside, what does it all mean? And why is it still being currently defined?
Well, for starters, the company I’m working for is quite small, and the Perth branch is only just expanding even though it’s been around for awhile. And with all expansions, there is plenty of teething and feeling your way around going on. So what it will finally end up being is what the current staff build it to be. That’s also why my hours have been a little crazy as well.
Anyway, onto my role definitions:
Trainee manager. I’m managing the trainees that my boss takes on board, because the company also provides work experience to a lot of students. On the other hand, my boss says he’s also training me up to be a manager, which basically means that I’m learning how to be the person who gets all the shit flung at her in his absence.
Consultant. I consult on a whole bunch of things, but mainly on the usage of social media, how to integrate it into a company’s online business strategy as well as various technologies to fit a business’s needs. I’m still quite junior in this aspect, so it’s still a learning process for me.
Project manager. Managing projects for clients. This include their social media marketing strategy, their website production, their marketing material production and whatever project that I get assigned to. It also includes liaising with clients and other colleagues and designers and programmers and whoever else we need to get the job done. This is an immensely headache-inducing role.
Social media marketing. Making social media services like Facebook and Twitter and blogs work for the client.
The experience gained from the job is great, and I suddenly have a plethora of stuff to chuck on my CV now. And when I read job ads, I can now say even more specifically how I can meet criteria and fit some roles.
If I’m having such fun at my current job, why did I apply for The West cadetship, you might ask?
That’s partly because I applied for the program before my job at this company became more full time. That and my boss is open to us staff widening our horizons.
Plus, I feel that the current skills I have on board are much more suited to Public Relations instead of Journalism, and there is massive void in my skill set, especially in media relations, that needs to be filled.
So if I don’t score this cadetship position, I will start trying to freelance more aggressively.
I like what I’m currently doing at my job very much, as it really allows me to use a lot of my net savvy skills that I’ve picked up over the years but never realised would be so relevant until now. Plus, I love having challenges thrown at me and figuring out how to solve them.
But I also love to write. I love how each word rolls off my fingers, and how they all come together to form something so crafted and so meaningful. Well, meaningful to me, at least.
I love the thrill of putting together a story. I love the rush of making something tangible in time for deadlines. I love being the first to break the news.
So come what may, you’ll be seeing me write a lot more about the topics near and dear to me right here, especially about stuff in my field.
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