Asidua

Judith

At the start of second year, in my Business with Marketing (Hons) course in Coleraine, University of Ulster, we had a presentation from final year students who had been away on placements and how it had been invaluable to them. This opened up the world of placement opportunities and their benefits to me and so I began looking on my uni career site. This linked me to Asidua. After reading the Marketing placement profile I was certain that Asidua was where I wanted to apply and carry out my placement, hopefully after reading this you will feel the same!

My placement meant taking on the role of Marketing Assistant. I provide support and assistance for all marketing activities within Asidua.

Work in Asidua
Working at Asidua has meant I have never been bored. Every week I am given new tasks to complete and some of these have included the planning of company events, helping design and create collaterals, updating Asidua’s website, participation in phone, mailer and email campaigns and being involved in creating Asidua’s internal marketing materials including the company blog.

Having such a wide range of responsibilities has meant that I have learnt new skills and gained new experiences from start to finish, something which I know isn’t the case in many placements in other companies. Not only did these tasks expand everything I had learnt from uni it has allowed me to gain firsthand knowledge and experience of real life day to day business.

Training in Asidua
Training at Asidua started with formal inductions at the beginning of the year. These provided opportunities for me to see what the company was about, how I fitted into the company and meet new people. I also found that training was very much ongoing at Asidua. Every task I was asked to complete involved on-the-job training with everything being explained and shown to me by my manager.  He was able to take me through each task and any problems at all that came up he was more than helpful.

Fun at Asidua
Asidua are definitely a company who don’t just focus on work. Throughout my placement year there have been countless fun activities and events organised for employees to take part in. These have included going to Belfast Fashion Week, bowling nights, theatre nights and movie nights. Breakfast club and ‘First Friday Drinks’ have also been a firm favourite and the company also has Nintendo Wiis in both their kitchens for employees to use.

Final Thought
Taking a placement with Asidua has been one of the best decisions I have made. I have been able to take my education and knowledge of marketing from university and put it into practice in a real life business, something you don’t experience in a lecture theatre.  Taking my placement here at Asidua, I have been blessed with a fantastic years work filled with new experiences, new skills and have met loads of new people, many of which I will stay in contact with after I have left.  It has provided me with the necessary experience I need when I begin to apply for graduate jobs and I would without doubt recommend a placement here to anyone