I am the third and final grad, submitting a severely late ‘first’ blog post. I’ll soon get into the swing of all things blogging, I promise. After all, blogging is a whole new technical world to me; you’re speaking to the girl who is still unable to operate the DVD player in her own home.

Let’s start at the very beginning, my phone call from Toni delivering the highly anticipated news that I had been selected for Edelman’s graduate scheme. I’ll set the scene: I’m staring at my phone that is ringing from the  Edelman office five minutes before I am due to sit my first final exam at university…here I had a choice, this could go one of two ways: Head on the desk sobbing during exam, or joy at the opportunity of a lifetime. Thank goodness it was the latter.

I walked through the Edelman doors on my first day to be greeted by two very friendly fellow grads. Two minutes into our conversation, I was left fairly wide eyed at the realisation that they have both already been working in PR whilst I was ‘Up North’ at Birmingham University. Standing in the lift going up to the third floor involved much reassuring of self, that there must be a reason that I had been picked too!

I was introduced to the healthcare team, a very friendly bunch.  I was made to feel immediately at home, with plenty of Davis related ‘banter’ and the good influence of Louisa force feeding me celery, and introducing me to the world of ‘healthy body, healthy mind.’

I was assigned to the Novo Nordisk team, who were preparing for a mammoth EASD conference, in Vienna. It has been massively busy, but the Novo group have made me feel like a really valued member of the team and have been very patient with my guillotining skills, which needless to say, leave a lot to be desired.  It is difficult to convey how much I feel I have learnt over the past couple of weeks, I can now hardly remember a time where I did not know much about pharmaceutical companies and media monitoring, and didn’t call Jill and Lindsay 150 times a day with all my questions.

I always thought that a graduate scheme might be extremely daunting, and leave me feeling out of my depth, but this has not been my experience at Edelman. Whilst the work has been challenging, everyone has been approachable and they do not expect you to know everything from day one.

I cannot believe I have been here for a month now, how time flies….

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