Rebecca's Events Evaluation Internship with the Student Enterprise & Employability Development Team, UEA -- Weeks 5 & 6

Week 5 saw the last fair of term: The Legal Fair. It was the first fair that I had worked that was located in the Sportspark so that gave me yet another venue to learn about and familiarise myself with. We learned that employer’s stands are getting bigger and there is therefore a growing need to enforce size regulations to ensure fairness for all the employers. The fair took a while to fill up with students. According to my feedback forms it was due to a large portion of the fair clashing with a law lecture. I also assisted on a presentation that immediately followed the fair. Unfortunately technical difficulties meant that it did not run smoothly but I learned to cope under pressure and I actively searched through every avenue for solutions.

The rest of the week saw me analysing the Career Fair feedback to report on in the staff meeting and also build the enterprise funding forms and documents to make it accessible to the university population.

Week 6 was a much quieter affair. I was tying up loose ends with all my event reports and making sure they were detailed and consistent. I also picked up the research project I had started long ago in weeks 1 & 2. I was learning where this was to fit in the enterprise funding system and I felt more motivated to complete it and format it so that it could be used for its intended purpose.

Also this week I was asked to send out an online feedback form to a selection of different events. I felt that the form still needed developing so I built one that had drop down lists and more attuned questions. These will be sent out early next week via the Employability system which will allow me to send out mass emails to all event attendees.

In these last couple of weeks I have learned that I will always want to continue to develop my own work - whether that is based on the advice of others or through my own learning. I think that this is something that is very important in the work environment because it leads to continual improvement for the team and the organisation in general.