Half way through....

Three Months in and everything is still going well. I can’t believe I am half way through my contract here at Novas Scarman.
The training courses have started. A list of the courses we could attend throughout our time here was sent to us to choose and I have attended 2 courses so far, one on Project management and one on new media & Social networking both have been really interesting. Project management gave me a really good insight into the best way of planning projects, like what you need to think about before and during, and different tools to use. It was also nice to meet some more FJF employee’s.
Over the next coming weeks I have booked on to attend Confidence and assertiveness in the work place, working with management and communicating effectively and relationship building.
As part of my day to day job I have been given the task of updating the intranet which is a really big job, I will also be attending some training sessions on this and possibly running them for other people as this is something I will use a lot. Also I am working on ideas for an external newsletter something that I have never done before. I think this will be a good opportunity for me to liaise with other members of the organisation and learn some valuable skills which can be transferred into my next job.

Katie Williams, 24

My Confidence is back...

It’s been 3 months since I started working for Novas Scarman I feel a lot better about my work and my skills. My confidence is back and I can express my ideas and know that they will be taken onboard and acted upon.
Like my plan to generate more business. This plan was the development of a cinema night at the CUC that is open to the staff and the public. I saw an opportunity and acted on it. It did take a while to put the action into place as I wasn’t too sure who was in charge of what in our department. I feel I have joined a really good team. I have met difference types of people outside of our marketing team who know a bit about something. I usually like to think of myself as a self proclaimed “know it all” but I have learnt a few new things about the use of social media and podcasting. To me these seemed like places that people went (online or radio) to have a moan about something and take no action. But I was shown by my boss that it could be used as a business to business communication tool. I was still unsure at first why businesses would want to use this tool. But with new media increasing in use, businesses have to adapt keep up with the trend of the customer.
I think I joined Novas Scarman at a good time, the organisation is currently looking at rebranding and as this was an area I wanted to go into when I left Uni. My boss has invited me along to the branding meeting to see what I can pick up and I have also been told about the opportunity to work one extra day a week at a new media agency.
Watch this space.


Victor Ohene, 23