Office Administrator and Event Coordinator Review

by Your Love Rara

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Answering emails and phone calls, taking bookings, creating quotes and invoices, customer service, café responsibilities, creating and launching events such as seasonal parties/ fundraisers, researching funding opportunities and applying for funding, ensuring the premises is organised and clean, engaging with the community through the sessions run at HQ such as the under 5 messy play class, and youth club, helping to ensure events run smoothly and occasionally doing character work at events/ parties.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • My confidence has developed in this role, through taking on more responsibility in a management role, engaging with the community, and entertaining at a high standard. I have developed on existing, and learned new IT/admin skills, these include using new software such as canva for marketing and xero accounting to create quotes/ invoices. I have developed my problem solving abilities and ability to maintain calm and positive under pressure and in unforeseen circumstances.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes I was given quite a lot of responsibility during my internship which was a little daunting at first however I think this has been beneficial as I have developed my skills to a greater extent because of this.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I had a great management team to support me throughout my internship, they were very understanding and always encouraged me to ask for guidance or help if I needed it. This allowed me to feel more at ease in my new position and work to the best of my ability as the work environment is very supportive. After I had received my initial training I often worked independently throughout my internship.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Great work environment, there is a very positive, fun and welcoming atmosphere here


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I thoroughly enjoyed my internship, every day brought new challenges and opportunities and I loved the team I worked alongside, it was great to build connections with the community too. I was very grateful to to be employed as a full-time member of staff at the end of my internship, and would highly recommend the internship programme to other students.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Your Love Rara
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Your Love Rara to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Your Love Rara
  • If you enjoy an upbeat, exciting and diverse work environment then you'll love it here.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Advertising, Business Operations, Social Media Marketing, Sales, PR & Communications

Scotland

December 2024