Brunswick Intern Blogs 2009

Hello there. This blog is written by the 2009 Brunswick Six.

We are the six University of East London graduates who were chosen to take part in the Brunswick Internship Programme this Autumn - Junior Ayanbeku, Param Lard, Tina Tama, Charlotte Robertson, Claude Peters and Jenard Dyer.

For ten weeks from Monday 21st September we will be working at the Unicorn Jobs offices in Shoreditch, receiving training in public relations, the media, and business from experts at the three companies who run the Internship - Unicorn Jobs, its sister company Taylor Bennett (the leading headhunting firm in PR and corporate communications) and Brunswick (the leading financial PR and corporate communications company).

You will be able to read about our experiences while on the Internship here in our weekly blog.

Week Eleven: 30 Nov - 1 Dec

For the final two days of the internship, the interns head North for a packed to days in Leeds as guests of Northern Lights PR.

Read the eleventh blog here

Week Ten: 20-27 Nov

It’s week ten of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day, including sessions as diverse as advertising, marketing, ballet, Yorkshire and English politics, and visits to the London HQ of BP and the offices of PR Week.

Read the tenth blog here

Week Nine: 13-20 Nov

It’s week nine of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day. There are two presentations to be given this week, plus for four interns the challenge of an assessment day for a trainee position at Brunswick. Meanwhile sessions covered financial communications, press releases, dealing with journalists, media reviews, broadcasting, sustainability, copyright and printing. A very busy week!

Read the ninth blog here

Week Eight: 6-13 Nov

It’s week eight of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day, including sessions on broadcasting, the internet and press releases, Heather on networking and a visit to The Observer.

Read the eighth blog here

Week Seven: 30 Oct - 6 Nov

It’s week seven of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day, including a visit to the HQ of Save The Children, a session with some top lawyers, lots of talk about Sunday newspapers and the long awaited trip to the opera.

Read the seventh blog here

Week Six: 23-30 Oct

It’s week six of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day, including a trip to the CIPR, mock interviews galore and an extra big audience for the Friday morning presentations.

Read the sixth blog here

Week Five: 16-23 Oct

It’s week five of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day, including a trip to the London Metal Exchange and the FT, and a very nerve wracking presentation to deliver.

Read the fifth blog here

Week Four: 9 - 16 Oct

It’s week four of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day, beginning with the previous Friday afternoon, and taking in some arts PR and a trip to the British Museum, interview training (both as interviewee and interviewer), a discussion of the business media, and the third set of FTSE presentations, this time on the media sector.

Read the fourth blog here

Week Three: 2 - 9 Oct

It's week three of the Brunswick internship programme. The team takes you through what happened, day by day, beginning with the previous Friday afternoon, and taking in a trip to Reuters, a CV session, more newspaper analysis, some presentation tips, and the chance to use them when presenting to Heather.

Read the third blog here

Week Two: 24 Sep - 2 Oct

Each Intern, in turn, talks you through a different day of the internship, from Thursday to Thursday. Along the way are plenty of discussions on the broadsheet newspapers, a morning of presentations, some hard work investigating leading retail companies, first visits to the London headquarters of both Brunswick and Taylor Bennett, a session with Programme founder Heather McGregor, a trip to the Bank and a quick spelling test.

Read the second blog here

Week One: 21 - 24 Sep

This week, in an extra extended blog, each of the six Interns talks you through the journey they took to get onto the Brunswick Internship Programme, from how they found out about the initiative, through the application process and assessment centres, to their first few days at Unicorn House.

Read the first blog here

You can read the Intern blog from the 2008 programme here