[Act. 1] Short Written Report

Activity 1:

For the work placement segment of this course I decided to pursue the avenue of radio telecast. Through contacting teachers at TAFE such as Mark Mathews I was able to gain contacts and I contacted wave fm, 9.4.1 fm and ABC radio all of which had already had their quota of work experience students for the year or were unable to fit me in before the deadline for this assessment.

Eventually I simply turned to the phonebook; I decided that I would ring up i98 fm and see if I could convince them that I will do almost anything as they were my last hope at radio work placement in the Illawarra. My call got sent to the senior sales assistant, Amanda Dawes who asked when I wished to do it, how long, what my project required – in depth and about my course. She told me that they had stopped receiving work placement students for the year, a week prior to my call, however my complete and utter enthusiastic attitude had left a great impression and she would contact her boss and negotiate an extension so I could do my work placement with their company, however she told me not to expect to much as she isn’t very sure he would agree to the extension and that she would contact me within 48 hours. She called back 1 hour later and happily told me that I had been accepted for work placement from the 11th – 12th of November and she would email all other details for confirmation later on that day.