For my job shadowing I went to H&R Marketing Company. The main person we were going to talk to was the CEO Wally Hamlin. We went from one o'clock to four o'clock, which I wish could have been longer!
The experience for me was FANTASTIC. When we first go their we were introduced to Wally and his VP. Wally then left and we talked with the VP for a little bit and she gave us a very good overview of the company and what we will be doing. After that she split all four of us up into two groups of two; Mackenzie and I and Melissa and Kirstyn. Mackenzie and I went with Connie first, who was the project leader of the company. She was the person who was in charge of dealing with a lot of the customers and finding out how they want to be advertised. First, she learns their business and exactly what they do. She explained to us that this was important because you can't accurately make a good marketing plan without knowing the company. Then the women went onto saying that next she develops a budget and general outline of what the company wants. The idea that they build an entire plan for someones individual company is awesome to me! This is a great way to make a living in my opinion!
She then set us up with a job she was working on which was tabletop pop up display and actually let us design it! Which was awesome and a great experience for me! We then got to take our design to the actual graphic designer (Stacey) who made our pop up! She actually printed it out and Connie is going to use it, but with her own edits of course :)
All in all the experience was wonderful and basically made me finalize what I want to do for the rest of my life. I absolutely loved the what Connie did and would want to do her job, which made this experience very worth it and influential to me. I am very grateful for the opportunity and that Wally Harmin allowed us to be in his building and learn from his employees.
