My Experience so far. By Danielle Wilson

I have been at Moore Finance for one month now and I have enjoyed every minute so far. I have been up to many different tasks allowing me to discover more about marketing. Each week has been very productive and I have learnt more and more every time. I always look forward to each week and what it will bring me, and I can’t wait for the following weeks to come!

As a marketing apprentice I have focused a lot on social media in the past couple of weeks; I have learnt more about how important and useful social media is now for businesses. In my first week here, I set up an Academy Twitter profile which I use weekly to record my progress here at Moore Finance. I follow relevant accounts who I think will follow and retweet my posts. I currently have 25 followers that will hopefully increase the more I use my account.

Also on my first week here, I came up with ideas that I believe would have encouraged visitors to Moore Business Management’s stand at the LVBizExpo. I researched into the LVBizExpo and found out more about the event in order to help me to come up with relevant ideas. I came up with several ideas such as using their Twitter profiles in the lead up to the event, because this would enable businesses to be aware that they will be attending and where they will be during the event.

I sat in a meeting during my first week here with Steph and Steve, which was about a hotel company called Park Hall Hotel located in Conwy. They had asked for help on creating a new brochure so that it could look more professional and enticing for customers. By sitting in the meeting I could find out more about the Marketing side here. I was given the task to write up the text in the leaflet that they had provided; I then had to re-word it so that the text was more interesting for customers. I really enjoyed this, because it allowed me to be involved with a real client.

On the 13^th and 14^th of October, I was given the task of following up the Expo Event by using the business cards that were collected during the Expo and following each business on the Moore Business Management Twitter account and liking each business Facebook page. This would allow Moore Business Management to contact the businesses they met at the Expo.

In addition, I also researched into info-graphics based around marketing, branding and social media. This was very interesting, because I found out how businesses can use info-graphics to boost their marketing and social media. I then came up with some ideas for an info-graphic for Moore Business Management. I was able to be creative in coming up with ideas about how Moore Business Management’s info-graphic should look.

I now help Leanne in the running of the Moore Finance Twitter page. I was taught how to use TweetDeck so that I could send out scheduled tweets. I also found out about how Moore Finance use different hashtags such as ‘#BizHour’ in order to boost the amount of people that see their tweets.
By Danielle Wilson

You can follow me on twitter: @MooreAcad_DW

Also you can follow: @MooreBizMgt @Moore_Academy @MooreFinance

Starting at Moore Finance

Hello, my name is Felicity and i currently attend Future Tech Studio based in Warrington. I am interested in business and finance so to follow my interest I'm studying Business, English and Maths.

My first day at Moore Finance so far has been more relaxed than I initially thought it would be. Because it was a basic introduction day to see what type of work I would be doing and to get a feel of the workplace during the tour given when I first arrived. The process so far has been very straightforward and easy to follow. Also the team has been very welcoming and have different but friendly vibes to them, so it was easy to get along with them and nice to meet them. The fact finder that I given to complete was also a very helpful tool in helping me to learn out more about Moore Finance.

During the interview stage that took place in the Career’s Fair at Warrington Collegiate business school what first caught my attention was the way Moore Finance’s logo stood out among most of the other companies logo’s in the room. The job post description for a Media Apprentice caught my attention because it stood out to me by fitting my interest of doing something outside of business while it still being something fun that interests me and I already have some knowledge on.

My placement aims are to gain general knowledge and experience in how a business operates from the front lines and to improve certain skills such as web design and video animation, whilst also improving my CV. These are my placement aims, but to also prepare and gain for when I enter the business world by building my own company some day in the not so distant future.

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