Education Marketing Intern Review

The start of the placement was very challenging, however, after 3 or 4 months into the placement I found my feet and really loved the role I worked in. Microsoft provided an enormous amount of flexibility to do projects outside of my role and my team gave me all the support I needed.

My colleagues were so supportive and treated me like a valued member of the marketing team. I felt so comfortable with them - not only did we work really well together and get the best from each other but we also had a lot of casual banter and fun nights out.

My manager pushed me to do all the things I wanted to do in and outside my role and helped me when I was overworked by reducing my work load.

I was extremely busy on a daily basis which I loved. My role had one of the most heavy workloads out of all the internships, however I thrive under pressure and love the challenge of pushing myself. I don't think that the workload would be everyone's cup of tea but if you love being overtly busy all the time, it's brilliant.

I literally helped run an entire project of a major education show which was such a great opportunity - I had to source and organised more than 100 devices for the Microsoft stand at the biggest Education technology trade show in the world, BETT Show. From day one I was blogging 3 or 4 posts a week, contributing to our targets and running events on my own or having ownership of certain components of events when the whole marketing team were involved.

I've learned to become a pro at time management and have developed a rich set of marketing skills in social marketing, events management and content creation which I will use both in my studies and beyond.

I can't emphasise how fun and energetic my team was. I had such a great time and got to know most of my colleagues well.

Ever few weeks I would have updates with my manager where we covered what tasks I was working on and had to do over the next week or two. I was made well aware of my commitments and up and coming projects.

I gained a lot from the networks I created outside my role and from the opportunity to have a mentor. I would advise everyone to find themselves a mentor outside of their role to focus on their career development and personal development. The schemes that were available to find a mentor were really popular - I enrolled to a graduate scheme prep programme where I had a mentor who was really helpful and ran fake interviews and presentations with me.

Pretty good

Compared to my friends at other companies, we had a really good social scene with 118 interns to party with :)

Reading is cheap and only a stone's throw from bustling London.

Pretty appalling

Not so many if you're not into football