Well after the Christmas hols my job hunting was in full swing again as soon as January started. I have had great feedback and all my Christmas applications seemed to catch up with me at once.
I went to a 2nd interview for a job as a PR Assistant and they offered me the job. The only thing is it was for a charity and the salary was a lot lower than what I was looking for. The actual job was pretty much my perfect role, but I turned them down as I worried about future salary and did not feel that my heart was in their cause. I even called my career consultant and told him I had 2 offers and he thought I should pick the travel one as it is more down to earth, sounded like a lot of fun and would offer me the rewards I am looking for. I sound very capitalist but at the moment I guess I am quite money-motivated, less concerned about being ethical. Although I think working for the charity would have been a much more creative role.
About my 2nd job offer: I got a random call last Sunday from a travel company to come to an interview for a Marketing Assstant. I went along on Monday and whatever I did must've worked as they showed me around the office and introduced me to the team! It looked like a fun place to work but also hectic and disorganized. Hopefully I will be able to help them out. I thought initially to take the other job but I think I would miss out on too many perks if I didn't work here.
1) It's a luxury cruise line company which means I have the potential to travel 
2) Friendly and international team.
3) Chance to learn all areas of marketing.
4) Chance to meet many interesting people from around the world.
It looked like they do a lot of data stuff and analysis which I am not too keen on as I am of a more creative background. I would like to improve my writing skills as I haven't really done any since my degree 2 years ago.
I am excited and nervous at the same time. I just hope it all goes well on Monday when I start. I have training and will probably spend most of the day sitting with people listening to them talk about their job. I always find this difficult as I think you never really know if you're absorbing this info until you have to actually do the job. I have been doing my research on travel marketing and I think it is a fun and exciting subject to work on. I hope now is the time I will get to use all my influences from quirky brands like lastminute.com. I love their campaigns, they are fun and visually appealing. The company I am going to work for has less humour in their brochures, as they are trying to promote Luxury branding.
I noticed that the information in their Brochures was quite confusing (or is this all travel brochures??) and the copy was wishy washy at most. I am not sure the UK audience would respond to this style. I was thinking of going on a travel writing course as I would like to learn more about how to do it!
Feel quite nervous about doing graphic design again to work on their brochures. I haven't worked on anything visual for a few months. Let's hope I still have some skills haha.
