Fareed and Sherry Fitzgerald Work Experience

My first 2 days of Work Experience (W.E.), in Sherry Fitzgerald with Darragh and Seb, have gone really well. When I first arrived at Sherry Fitzgerald I noticed how organised the programme was and I was surprised to see at least 20 or 30 other TY students also waiting to start their Work Experience. After the first few hours on my first day I quickly realised that this TY W.E. programme at Sherry Fitzgerald is based more on teaching you about Real Estate, financial departments, marketing, customer sentiment, customer feedback and Sherry Fitzgerald as a whole, rather than having you spend the week working on something you don’t know much about. Everyday, with the exception of Thursday, we start at 10 and finish at 3 with an hour for lunch break from 1-2. Different people working in completely different departments of Sherry Fitzgerald HQ. come in to talk to us about what it is they do, why its necessary and how we can take up a similar career path. So far we have had talks on customer feedback, Accounting, corporate Social Media, Franchises, IT and Financial Services (Mortgages, House Insurance etc.) and then near the end of most talks we’ll go into the groups we’ve been put in to for the week and do group work and quizzes all in an effort to earn points as the team with the most points wins a big mystery prize. Me and Darragh are in a group together with 6 other people and Seb is in a separate group. Our groups are in first place tied in points. On Thursday the format of the day changes as we will be assigned to a branch in Dublin or a department in HQ. ,which is where we are now, to work for the day. We will start at 11 and finish at 3. The talks I have found most interesting are Accounting, Corporate Social Media and Financial Services. So far the week has gone really well and I have enjoyed it.