Work Experience: Introduction

In this blog I will be posting daily updates on what my work experience is like at Southampton Solent University. This will also become a log for what I've achieved during my work experience in terms of the following:

• Self-management
• Teamwork
• Participation
• Creativity
• Reflectiveness
• Independence
• Attendance
• Communication
• Motivation

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The purpose of this work experience is that I will be able to gain work experience in the industry and that I'll be able to provide evidence for an entire unit in my BTEC Level 3 Travel and Tourism course which is dedicated to work experience. I will be working at the university for a week starting May 9th, explaining the title of the blog being 'May 2016', I decided to set up the blog early so I'm prepared for work experience and it'll also be less time consuming for me when I start. So far I know that I will be working in the film/media department which is beneficial to me because I've been doing Media Studies and Film Studies at college since September 2014 going through AS and now currently A2. In both subjects I've had experience with several different aspects which included the following:

• Making a music magazine
• Making a short film (During AS and A2 Film Studies)
• Making a short documentary with a double page spread and a newspaper advert to market it.
• Creating blogs and blog posts for the purpose of coursework.

With these aspects that I've done throughout almost two years this means that I've had experience with the following software:

• Blogger
• Adobe Photoshop CS5
• Adobe Fireworks CS5
• iMovie 09

In conjunction with this, I also have three objectives which consist of a personal, career and a curriculum objective listed below:

• Personal: I aim to develop more skills which would make me capable of working in the travel and tourism industry such as gaining confidence with customer service provision, interaction with other people and presenting myself to people through the use of body language, posture and tone of voice to create a positive representation of myself.

• Career: I aim to gain knowledge of what it's like in the working environment, especially in the travel and tourism industry so I'll know about who works there, what they do and how they contribute to making the organisation a better place for internal and external customers. I will be planning out what I would want to ask and make a good attempt at exploring the different roles that the organisation has to offer.

• Curriculum: I would want to ensure that I gather enough evidence from my work experience in order to secure a good grade in Unit 22 (for my Travel & Tourism course) overall and making sure I will have enough evidence for the further assignments throughout Unit 22. I also aim to plan what I want to find out, how I'm going to log information for each day (already achieved using Blogger) that I'm at the workplace and how the information I gather from the work experience would relate to my assignments in Unit 22.

Overall I believe that the work experience will be beneficial for me with the skills that I've gained from both of the courses which I do at college and as I'm a usually tech-savvy person I believe that this would also be the right placement for me as I hope to be able to get around the ropes with any software that I haven't used before during work experience.