A surprising CV boost

18th Sep 2009 A passion and truth by Oliver

In July of 2009, having recently graduated from Nottingham University I was eagerly seeking work experience at an advertising agency. At that time, under the title “Work Experience” my C.V read “Pizza Hut”. Believing this not to be a major selling point for prospective employers in the advertising industry I started to get desperate. After phoning several agencies and offering to work for them for free I was still getting nowhere. Fortunately I was phoned by Sarah Asprey from WAA who said they were offering work experience places throughout the summer. Perfect.

I started work experience at WAA in August and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Well, actually that’s not true, I expected to mainly be making tea and coffee and filing (I didn’t even know whether advertising agencies did filing but I was sure they’d find some for me to do). I was very happy to discover this was far from the case. Throughout my time there I was given various meaningful tasks from which I learnt a great deal. I gained direct experience of how an agency actually works. I was asked to attend various brainstorming meetings and given a chance to have a real input. I liaised with people high up in the company, not just Jerry the postman as had previously been expected.

I am very grateful for the experience I have gained from working at WAA. I was given the chance to work on a range of projects and I found the experience to be genuinely enjoyable. I would certainly recommend it to anyone looking to enter the world of advertising and suffering a C.V deficiency.

Oliver Fawcett

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