Social Enterprise

My Job Scope

My job role was a Digital Marketing Intern, hence at the start of the internship, I had thought I would be doing the same things I did in my Marketing modules, and maybe occasionally dabble in a little bit of administrative work if needed. Oh, how I was proven wrong. On the very first day, I was notified that even though on paper my role was a Digital Marketing Intern, I was to fulfil whatever role the company needed at that point. From then on, during the 8 weeks, I was a video editor, a translator, and even a web designer...

Work

In all honesty, I had entered this internship thinking it would be a mundane 9 to 6 job, where I just come to the office, sit there waiting for work to be assigned to me and do said work till 6 pm when I can just pack up and go home. In actuality, this internship was nothing close to it at all. On just the second day of my internship, I was told to go out for filming with my colleagues for the new company merchandise that had arrived that day. From then, I learnt that every week was going to be something different from the last and not to expect a mundane working life like my other friends had. There were times I spent my mornings at home, uploading videos and working on other projects and afternoons in the office where I could discuss work matters with my colleagues. There were also times when I spent the entire day working at home accomplishing the tasks given to me at my own pace with the trust that I would accomplish said tasks promptly and properly....

Social Enterprise

When I first knew that I would be interning at Fountfully and that it was a social enterprise, I did not understand what a social enterprise was. I was told that Fountfully donates up to 40% of their profits to charities and their partnered beneficiaries, and honestly, I thought that would be the extent of what they did. I was proven wrong when I was notified that we would be going for a volunteering session every other Thursday during company working hours. This was something I have not heard of personally, for a company to regularly take time out to do volunteering. This was when my perception of a social enterprise changed....

My Experience

My experience working at Fountfully was quite a unique one if I may say so myself. Having tried out a wide range of roles from editing YouTube videos and TikTok snippets to designing a website, I can say for certain that I have come out of this internship equipped with more skills than before....

Solo Project

In the last week of my internship, I was tasked to do a video on the Cloud Forest at Gardens by The Bay. Something I had learnt from my prior experiences of filming for previous videos was how I had panned too fast and sometimes too much. I figured that I could slow down when panning the videos to reduce the dizziness the viewers might experience when watching the videos. Additionally, I could also take some still shots of scenery that could add variety to the types of shots in the video....

What did I learn?

The three main things I learnt from this internship are the importance of communication, adaptability and proactiveness in the workplace....

What I Can Improve On?

One thing I can work on is communication especially after the other interns left and I was left to my own devices. I had often made the mistake of assuming that my boss would be aware when I had completed my task. However, this was not the case as there were a few instances where he had asked me if I had finished my work. After having the company evaluation talk in the second last week of my internship, I was told about this area of improvement and hence have tried to improve on that in my last week. I updated my boss about when I finished filming and when I uploaded the snippets and drafts for the videos....