My Moore Finance Work Experience By Lauryn Baker

We recently welcomed Lauryn Baker into our team on a week's work experience programme. We asked her to complete a blog that would share her time with us and hopefully encourage young people to participate in work experience and employers to offer placements to them. 

We hope you enjoy part 1!

Stephanie Jones, Marketing Manager


Sourcing My Work Experience Placement

My name is Lauryn Baker and I am a year 10 student at Future Tech Studio, on the business and finance pathway.

At Future Tech, all students are offered 10 days work experience per year, including employer based workshops and 3 hours a week of project based learning in which they are given either an employer based project or a task set by the school.

Currently, during project based learning, the business and finance pathway are working with Moore Finance on a corporate social responsibility based task with the Moore Foundation children's charitable trust. 

After three weeks of working on the project, I was approached by Moore to see if I had my upcoming work placement sorted. I had managed to arrange my second week, however I didn’t have my first one organised, so it was a good opportunity for me to go to Moore.

Moore asked me what areas of business I was interested in and of course my answer was Marketing, as it is one of my strengths and is something I enjoy. So my placement was arranged and would take place from June 8^th – June 12^th.

Day One

On my first day I arrived at the office and was greeted by Matt, the Business Development Manager, and by 9:00am I had met some of the team including Leanne, Nigel and Tom, a year 12 student who is also from Future Tech and on an Apprenticeship with Moore.

My first task was to add all of Moore Finance's contacts to Mailchimp, an e-newsletter platform, as well as updating all the contacts without email addresses. Once I had done this, I then researched the contact names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses of all the primary schools in Warrington and added them to an excel database. This data was due be used for a task later in the week.

Throughout the day I spoke to people and felt very welcome and comfortable, I even had my own desk!

Lauryn Baker