The EP Team spoke to two students about their experience with WEA….<\/p>\n
Gabrielle Lafaix, from the School of European Culture and Languages, earned 175 points from a variety of creative inspired activities including conferences and workshops. Gabrielle used those points to secure work experience with WEA working with their social media department.<\/p>\n
The placement provided Gabrielle with first-hand, professional experience in digital marketing being responsible for drafting social media posts to inspire WEA students to book on their courses, alongside researching other organisations to create a campaign to encourage people to subscribe. Furthermore, she planned and designed a 2-week social media campaign highlighting how getting involved with the WEA can benefit people’s wellbeing.<\/p>\n
Gabrielle said:<\/p>\n
“One thing in particular I liked is that most of the tasks required me to be creative. For the social media posts, I had to find different subjects that could appeal to people in order to make the WEA brand stand out. I also had to come up with ideas on how they could improve their strategy, comparing to some of their competitors. It was both interesting and challenging.”<\/em><\/p>\n Jonathan Gardener also undertook social media work experience with WEA. A digital marketing postgraduate from Kent Business School, Jonathan earned 225 points by being actively involved with the Global Skills Award, undertaking a Bright Network internship and several Careers and Employability Service skills workshops.<\/p>\n Jonathan’s role at WEA involved Facebook auditing, copywriting, scheduling posts and survey writing\/advice. He had this to say about his experience:<\/p>\n “Volunteering definitely looks good \u2013 even the small amount I\u2019ve done and what I did on it has already been commented on positively for an opportunity I\u2019ve had, so I\u2019m glad I did it and it\u2019s the first experience I\u2019ve had using skills I\u2019ve learned on my course.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n WEA generously provided work experience opportunities for eight EP students, more information about them can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"