NG Farrell Marketing

Hello. My name is Bart, the first ever intern at NG Farrell. I am originally from Korea and I came to Vancouver, Canada to achieve my dream.  Many people ask me why I came to Canada and what I wanted to achieve here. I had always planned to study abroad and gain experience, as my dream is to become a public relations account executive and I wanted to get Canadian experience.

When I was looking for a job, I found an interesting looking company named NG Farrell. Once I saw their website, I called to get a opportunity to meet with the company. I started to work here on December 6, as part of my practicum at Gastown Business College, and I have worked with Sean, Callum, Chito and Davis. I worked to review client backgrounders and project profiles for the first week, and then I researched companies and worked on developing contact databases for companies that could be approached for sponsorships. In addition, I joined photo shoots, supported a press conference and helped with some fund raising activities. Furthermore I learned a lot about social media, and did a lot of audience development for clients on Twitter.

I always enjoyed attending brainstorming meetings, and liked how we created briefs for projects. Helping to edit videos from events we were managing was a lot of fun, especially since we often had to get them online really fast to make sure that our clients were getting the notice they deserved. It was good timing to be at NG Farrell, as I also got to learn a bit about poliltical campaigns, and have seen first hand how much work goes into integrating all the available communications channels that can be tapped into as resources, especially social media.

I could go on forever about the things I learned here, but I will probably remember most the excitement of helping to put on big press conferences and live web streaming events. Through my internship, I feel that a dream was reached and I now have enough courage to continue working to achieve my goals. After going back to Korea, I will miss everything about NG Farrell especially Sean, Callum, Chito and Davis.I really appreciate your kindness. It was the best time of my life. I hope you'll all come to see me in Korea when I have my own agency. Keep your eyes open for me, like I have kept mine on you!! ha ha.