Work Experience with Dickinson Dees Law Firm

Surprisingly...

My work experience wasn't in Law, it was actually in Human Resources, Marketing and Public Relations.

Monday-Tuesday in Human Resources
Spent the first half hour of the morning meeting and greeting people and then... straight off to work. These people don't beat about the bush, they are hard-working and very committed and they wanted to prove this by making me hit the ground running. A little bit scary at first, but with a task of researching the scrapping of the Default Retirement Age, I fell into an old routine of good ol' research from my Philosophy days. Always a good start if you are set a task in something which you majored in. They have brought out the best in me on the Monday morning - I dare say the University struggled with that!

Spent most of the two days researching and asking general questions of how the employees got into HR and they all seemed very passionate about their work. Tuesday afternoon was slightly different, I got the chance to view a mock application form for their graduate programme and mark it accordingly. Had a great laugh over some of the mistakes and answers, thought to ask whether this app form was the worst/funniest they had seen... They said no! I have to admit, I would like to see some of the wackiest application forms made as some that I have seen online have made me giggle.

Overall HR was enlightening and it was great to meet everyone there. I will definitely keep in touch with them. Human Resources has a great buzz to it and it looks to always keep you on your toes. While the work-load looked as though it was always piling in, there seemed to be a calm and controlled air about the office, which is very attractive - nothing worse than watching people's head roll and lose their temper!

Anyone interested in HR, I would definitely recommend some work experience in the sector to give you an edge when applying and understand the sector in the detail it deserves. In conclusion a great experience and fantastic sector. Thank you to all at Dickinson Dees HR department.

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