Being a TMC Intern - Bekki Broadbent

In my application to be an intern with The Mighty Creatives, I stated that I wanted this opportunity because I wanted to learn how a real company works. I wanted to have first-hand experience on all the cogs in the machine, and to come away with a sense of knowledge about everything I have experienced.
I have been an intern for a month now, and have successfully had experience in different sectors within TMC. I have had experience in the hiring of new staff, both from application reading to interview days. This experience from the hiring point of view has given me a good insight into what a company is looking for which will be helpful considering I am graduating in 3 months’ time.

I also have helped out with the branding in terms of giving my opinion on the template of the new website, and seeing TMC liaising with other companies within the LCB. It’s good to see the companies working together, and also really good to see how much creativity is in one building! Being in this environment really makes me feel at home.

I also have been given a taster of running an event, and all it entails from the planning, to the venue booking, to generating interest for all those involved, in 5 weeks with a £1,000 budget. I have learnt a number of things, the two main ones being that:

1) People happily cancel on you at any time
2) People generally don’t reply

Having assumed people would reply, this has made the initial plan need to be incredibly flexible and also includes a lot of waiting to hear back from people. This is a huge learning curve in how it is to plan an event for a company as opposed to for a university piece.

I hope to get plenty more experience in different fields, and maybe spend some days sitting in and learning about how different sectors work.

Bekki