{"id":3860,"date":"2016-02-05T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:33:50","slug":"3860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/02\/05\/3860\/","title":{"rendered":"From intern to creative planner"},"content":{"rendered":"

BU graduate Rees Hitchcock recently gave an interview to Event Magazine about his placement year. Here’s what he had to say:<\/p>\n

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During my third year at Bournemouth University I undertook a placement year. Knowing I wanted to spend it back in London and kick-start my career in the world of brands and experiences, finding a short-term intern role that could develop into a long-term job seemed the most pragmatic way to approach it.<\/p>\n

I started where I imagined most people would: a Google search, making a list of brands and agencies that I wanted to work at and then picking up the phone and calling them. Some of those conversations proved to be more fruitful than others. I got an interview at Borkowski PR, who introduced me to their experiential agency Beatwax – they in turn offered me an intern role. This turned into a full-time post and I went on to join as a graduate after finishing university.<\/p>\n

I was quite lucky when it came to my role and tasks. As Beatwax was a relatively small agency with big clients, I gained experience in every part of the agency, from creative brainstorms, pitch writing and presenting, budgeting, account and client management to project management and even sorting out our storage garage.<\/p>\n

Of course, at that stage I didn’t know that planning and strategy would be the direction I’d head in, but it really did help me to get a grasp of each and every stage of responding to a brief and running an activation, and that has stood me in good stead for where I am today.<\/p>\n

I may be a tad biased, but I will always fly the flag for interns and people looking to get started to develop their skills and knowledge.<\/p>\n

I am now lucky enough to return and guest lecture for Bournemouth University’s events and marketing students and mentor at youth charity Spark and Mettle.<\/p>\n

Rees Hitchcock, creative planner, Frukt<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can read the full article on the\u00a0Event Magazine<\/a>\u00a0website, where the interview was originally published.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BU graduate Rees Hitchcock recently gave an interview to Event Magazine about his placement year. Here’s what he had to say: During my third year at Bournemouth University I undertook a placement year. Knowing I wanted to spend it back in London and kick-start my career in the world of brands and experiences, finding a… Read more » about From intern to creative planner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,130,48,318,623,69,40],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-placement-student","tag-rees-hitchcock","tag-students","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13788,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/13788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}