Publishe originally on Friday, August 12, 2016 5:00pm /Oluwalaonoayo Ashiru*
I had been informed by my mother that I had to do an internship at anywhere of my choice for a week or two for a work experience. Subsequent to that, I had to decide where I would do the internship. After much colloquy and had still not come to a decision my dad suggested Proshare Nigeria Limited. I thought about it and discussed it with my mum, and she agreed that it is a good place for me to gain an insight into the working life.
We sent an application and I was granted permission to do my internship. On Friday August 5, 2016, I went to get the details of my temporary job. I met Mrs. Grace Jare-Ajuwon, the Head of the Business and Market department, who I would be working and spending majority of my time with. She informed me that I would start work on Monday, August 8, 2016 from 8am to 6pm daily.
I
arrived for work on Monday early and went to Mrs Grace’s office. They
had a Management meeting and when they were done I was given a tour of
the establishment, thus giving me a glimpse of what a day of work looks
like. I went back to Mrs Grace’s office and she explained the
foundation, functions and importance of Proshare as a company; recording
minutes after a meeting, the financial markets, securities, exchanges,
regulators, the significance of taking notes, prioritising and letter
writing. That summed up Day 1.
I had been informed by my mother that I had to do an internship at anywhere of my choice for a week or two for a work experience. Subsequent to that, I had to decide where I would do the internship. After much colloquy and had still not come to a decision my dad suggested Proshare Nigeria Limited. I thought about it and discussed it with my mum, and she agreed that it is a good place for me to gain an insight into the working life.
We sent an application and I was granted permission to do my internship. On Friday August 5, 2016, I went to get the details of my temporary job. I met Mrs. Grace Jare-Ajuwon, the Head of the Business and Market department, who I would be working and spending majority of my time with. She informed me that I would start work on Monday, August 8, 2016 from 8am to 6pm daily.
I
arrived for work on Monday early and went to Mrs Grace’s office. They
had a Management meeting and when they were done I was given a tour of
the establishment, thus giving me a glimpse of what a day of work looks
like. I went back to Mrs Grace’s office and she explained the
foundation, functions and importance of Proshare as a company; recording
minutes after a meeting, the financial markets, securities, exchanges,
regulators, the significance of taking notes, prioritising and letter
writing. That summed up Day 1.The next day, Tuesday, August 9, 2016, I was getting acquainted with the work environment and got to know the five main departments of Proshare namely the Business and Market, IT, Research, Admin and WebTV. I also got to cognize the purpose of Proshare being a Media and Analysis Firm and Nigeria’s Number #1 Economic and Financial Information Hub and its organisational structure. Additionally, I discovered some of the tasks of the Business and Market department being relationship management, brand management, digital marketing, product development and writing proposals. Likewise, I was told I would be spending three hours each day in a department and thus I found myself in the Research department and met Taiwo, Jaya and Saheed. In the Research department i learnt a lot about stocks, shares, the stock market and
investments. On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, I was scheduled to spend the morning with the WebTV department but as they had a press conference I had to push my time back to the afternoon. Spending the early hours of the day with Mrs Grace, I gathered more information about Proshare and business. There are eight service suites in the Proshare Ecosystem - Business, Markets, Economy, Finance (which is further divided into eight sub sectors - Savings and Thrift, Health and Lifestyle, Investment and Securities, Mortgage and Property, Travels and Tours, Taxation and Benefits, Retirements and Pensions, and Insurance and Renditions), Regulators, Start-Ups, Technology and WebTV. I learnt about the CEO, Mr. Olufemi Awoyemi; the COO, Mrs. Reshu Bagga; the pay-off line of Proshare – “intelligent investing” and its promise to deliver service that is credible, reliable and timely.
On business, I learnt about business models, professionalism, the importance of news gathering, M4 (Making, Managing and Multiplying your Money) and monetising your certificate. After that WebTV team had arrived so I went to meet them.
I met Otto and Prosper who showed me how they do voice-overs and how they edit them into videos. I got to try doing a voice-over and it was fun. I got to know that they do online videos, programming, event coverage, press conferences, exclusive interviews, news stories, short documentaries then put them on CDs/DVDs, their website (www.webtvng.com) and their social media platforms. I also learnt that it is okay to repeat the editing several times before you get it correctly because they edit and cut it out to get a perfect take. For the videos, I was told they use a script for their voice-overs, an intro and outro to pass a message to viewers from said video. They also do a market round up every day.
On Thursday, August 11, 2016, Mrs Grace had some meetings outside the office so I went with her as part of the experience. We went all around town visiting companies, agencies and banks. We spent almost a whole day out seeing the companies, checking with clients and promoting Proshare Nigeria Limited.
On Friday, August 12, 2016, I met with the IT department which consisted of Isaac, Muhammed and Seun. I gathered a lot of information about graphic designing, programming and their function in Proshare. They defined Proshare to me as a platform with a collection of financial information enhanced through technology and delivered on real time basis.
In all, I had a wonderful experience at Proshare Nigeria Limited. I learnt not only academic skills; but behavioural, communication, negotiation, diplomatic, marketing and numerous other soft sk... Read More on Proshare Nigeria Limited
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