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Air Products My Placement Experience. A personal view of my work placement so far at Air Products. About Air Products. Founded in 1940 U.S. owned Multinational Fortune 500 Company Annual revenues of $10 billion Operations in over 40 countries Over 21,000 employees around the globe
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Air Products My Placement Experience A personal view of my work placement so far at Air Products
About Air Products • Founded in 1940 • U.S. owned Multinational • Fortune 500 Company • Annual revenues of $10 billion • Operations in over 40 countries • Over 21,000 employees around the globe • Tell me more: www.airproducts.com
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What does my placement entail? • I am based at the European Head Office and am involved in all aspects of communication including; • European Community Relations • European Employee Communications • European Corporate Public Relations • European Crisis and Issues Management • Change Management
What tasks do the areas entail? • European Employee Communication • CorpNEWS – Our daily employee newsletter. • CorpNEWS Round Up – Our weekly employee newsletter. • Mid-week Mingles – A monthly employee forum. • European Community Relations • Coordinating the Science Ambassador programme • Coordinating the Manchester Camerata partnership • Charity requests • Load Movements – Large loads are often moved from our North Wales site to Ellesmere Port Docks.
What tasks do the areas entail? Contd… • European Corporate Public Relations • Press Releases • Press Cuttings • Corporate campaigns • Crisis and Issues Management • Crisis and issues prevention, • Crisis and issues handling • Crisis and issues response • Change Management • Communicating change
What have I learnt? • My writing skills • Events management • Task and time management • The importance of clear language when communicating with different nationalities • New Media • Differing areas and functions of communications
How has this benefitted my degree? • Greater understanding of communications • I now know what direction I want to go in • Looks good on my CV • Only seven modules to complete next year • Portfolio is nearly complete • www.emmalong.weebly.com
tell me more www.airproducts.com