Mark W.
About me
| Mark W. | |
| Sociology | |
| Sociology | |
| Undergraduate | |
| Langwith | |
| 2007 | |
| United Kingdom |
My employment
| Research Consultant | |
| Bite Communications | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Advertising, marketing and PR | |
| 2009 | |
| £20000~5000 | |
| £32500~7500 |
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A day in the life of a Research Consultant in the United Kingdom
Where I hope to be in 5 years
I hope to be promoted this August. In the next 2 years or so, I anticipate these promotions will continue.
My advice to students considering work
Pick a job you are genuinely interested in or passionate about or don't bother at all. If you're not interested, you won't care. If you don't care, you won't be happy.
What I do
Bite Communications is a global PR agency. The work I do for them is in a specialist postion of researcher. I continue to produce bespoke presentations for clients such as Sony, ITV, O2, T-Mobile, Endemol to help them better understand how consumer behavioural changes are affecting their devices and their content.
I also am frequently involved in social media analytics.
Skills I use and how I developed them
I worked for 15 months for a research consultancy, specialising in understand user behaviours around technology and the content on these devices.
Degree skills:
My writing skills. The analytical way in which sociology encourages you to think has certainly been beneficial. My dissertation was also heavily related to some of the behaviours we looked at my current and previous employers.
Extracurricular skills:
I continue to read around the issues I cover in mainstream and commercial media as well as more desk based research white papers.
What I like most
The culture of the office is fantastic. Bite was voted the 7th best small company to work for in the Sunday Times a few weeks ago. The work I actually do, I am genuinely interested in.
What I like least
The nature of the deadlines - getting given a piece of work at 10am that has to be finished by 2pm and is then never used again after 4pm can seem a little pointless at times. Also, the nature of PR as an industry feels slightly souless at times.
What would I change? I don't think I would change anything. I wish I'd had travelled for an extra month, but that's about it.
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