Well I am starting work experience tomorrow at the Hawthorn F.C and I just thought that I would update you each day on what it is like and the experiences I was able to participate in over the week period, I will update this every day as I go through my work experience like a diary and I hope that you are able to get a good overview of what work experience is like as you may want to do it at the club in the future or allow your children to have the chance of working there.....
DAY 1
Well day one was pretty interesting. Arrived at 9:00 and was introduced around by my supervisor Liz, was able to meet David Parkin which was good and had a little chat with him. After that I was introduced to Brett in the merchandise store and spent the day there doing various tasks like sending out mail orders and things like that. Some would find it boring, but just the experience of being in the Hawthorn Football Club was quite exciting.
DAY 2
Well started out the day in Merchandise again but at 12:00 I was very pleased to find out that I would be able to spend some time sitting in on interviews with players. I was also told that my interest in journalism was the reason behind this and that in the future I may get an opportunity to write my own report on these interviews, this made me quite excited was I very much enjoyed listening to and writing notes on the interviews with Nick Holland, Bill Nicholls, David Loats and last of all one of my favourite players Daniel Harford. They were all pretty nice guys although they didn't seem that happy with the prospect of having an interview interrupt their busy schedules!
DAY 3
On this day I worked entirely in the merchandise shop which was without the usual helped. I once again helped to write down things to be sent out to mail orders and generally learnt some new things about working as an assistant in the Hawks Nest Shop. This gave me a really good opportunity to be able to gain some skills in the retail area. The store was very busy which was also good and I was happy to lend a hand when I could
DAY 4
Well today I was given the opportunity to mix with the players a bit when I was required to take down the merchandise to the rooms for the players to sign... after watching them do their stretches for about an hour they were quite willing to sign some jumpers and I was lucky enough to have the two photos I had put there to be signed by Daniel Harford and John Barker actually signed. After this I went back up stairs and dropped off the merchandise, I was then sent to the social club and tried my best to help out the volunteers group in the raffle ticketing contest, the oldish man in there was nice enough to take me over to the Hawks Gallery, and I had a look at the history of Hawthorn, even that wonderful jumper they would in 1995, with the blue background and brown and yellow checkered sections, gee was that terrible, lol. I was able to meet Andy Angwin and Doug Polkinghorne and even talked to Gary Buckenara at one stage.
I got free lunch supplied too, which was a bonus, lol. And then I was able to sit on Geoff Ablett's desk to do some work because Geoff was out for the day. All in all, a pretty good day.
DAY 5
Today I worked with Geoff Ablett in the social club for most of the time, he asked me to do some stuff on the computer and being addicted to computers as I am I didnt refuse, lol. He then wanted me to go over to the rooms to get a footy signed for him by some players, I was able to meet Nathan Lonie, Kris Barlow, Adrian Cox and Tony Woods, they were all pretty nice blokes. After doing some more work for Geoff I went back in the afternoon to help out for the last few hours in the merchandise shop. It was pretty hectic with the owner out at lunch and me and an employee having to attempt to keep up with a large amount of customers and new shipments of t-shirts arriving having to be priced and put away. At the end of the day I realised by time at the Hawthorn Footy Club was over unfortunately, I bought one of the new Hawthorn training singlet, and a shirt and was on my way, thanked Di for having me at the club and said goodbye. Overall a very good experience which I would love to continue, I really enjoyed my time at Hawthorn F.C, everyone was great to me there. I encourage all of you on bigfooty if you get the opportunity to jump at it, you will really enjoy it as I did.
Cheers
DAY 1
Well day one was pretty interesting. Arrived at 9:00 and was introduced around by my supervisor Liz, was able to meet David Parkin which was good and had a little chat with him. After that I was introduced to Brett in the merchandise store and spent the day there doing various tasks like sending out mail orders and things like that. Some would find it boring, but just the experience of being in the Hawthorn Football Club was quite exciting.
DAY 2
Well started out the day in Merchandise again but at 12:00 I was very pleased to find out that I would be able to spend some time sitting in on interviews with players. I was also told that my interest in journalism was the reason behind this and that in the future I may get an opportunity to write my own report on these interviews, this made me quite excited was I very much enjoyed listening to and writing notes on the interviews with Nick Holland, Bill Nicholls, David Loats and last of all one of my favourite players Daniel Harford. They were all pretty nice guys although they didn't seem that happy with the prospect of having an interview interrupt their busy schedules!
DAY 3
On this day I worked entirely in the merchandise shop which was without the usual helped. I once again helped to write down things to be sent out to mail orders and generally learnt some new things about working as an assistant in the Hawks Nest Shop. This gave me a really good opportunity to be able to gain some skills in the retail area. The store was very busy which was also good and I was happy to lend a hand when I could
DAY 4
Well today I was given the opportunity to mix with the players a bit when I was required to take down the merchandise to the rooms for the players to sign... after watching them do their stretches for about an hour they were quite willing to sign some jumpers and I was lucky enough to have the two photos I had put there to be signed by Daniel Harford and John Barker actually signed. After this I went back up stairs and dropped off the merchandise, I was then sent to the social club and tried my best to help out the volunteers group in the raffle ticketing contest, the oldish man in there was nice enough to take me over to the Hawks Gallery, and I had a look at the history of Hawthorn, even that wonderful jumper they would in 1995, with the blue background and brown and yellow checkered sections, gee was that terrible, lol. I was able to meet Andy Angwin and Doug Polkinghorne and even talked to Gary Buckenara at one stage.
I got free lunch supplied too, which was a bonus, lol. And then I was able to sit on Geoff Ablett's desk to do some work because Geoff was out for the day. All in all, a pretty good day.
DAY 5
Today I worked with Geoff Ablett in the social club for most of the time, he asked me to do some stuff on the computer and being addicted to computers as I am I didnt refuse, lol. He then wanted me to go over to the rooms to get a footy signed for him by some players, I was able to meet Nathan Lonie, Kris Barlow, Adrian Cox and Tony Woods, they were all pretty nice blokes. After doing some more work for Geoff I went back in the afternoon to help out for the last few hours in the merchandise shop. It was pretty hectic with the owner out at lunch and me and an employee having to attempt to keep up with a large amount of customers and new shipments of t-shirts arriving having to be priced and put away. At the end of the day I realised by time at the Hawthorn Footy Club was over unfortunately, I bought one of the new Hawthorn training singlet, and a shirt and was on my way, thanked Di for having me at the club and said goodbye. Overall a very good experience which I would love to continue, I really enjoyed my time at Hawthorn F.C, everyone was great to me there. I encourage all of you on bigfooty if you get the opportunity to jump at it, you will really enjoy it as I did.
Cheers
