We had the pleasure of welcoming Harvey to our team for work experience. Harvey is currently in Year 10 at high school, and has a keen interest in exploring the world of business and the wide array of opportunities and careers available after his education is complete.

Throughout his two days with us, Harvey showed enthusiasm for all of our services at Strategi, whether it was getting hands-on with Strategi HR, learning more about our clients in meetings, or joining our Strategi Creative team and learning how to create a marketing campaign for his favourite apparel brand to creating his own brand identity themed of his passion for cricket.

Harvey spent his final afternoon writing his own blog sharing his thoughts on his time with us and what he has learnt, which you can read below:

I spent 2 days at Strategi towards the end of the week on Thursday and Friday, and it was a great experience!

I spent my first day with the Strategi team with all staff members from each department, Megan from Strategi HR explained the support they offer for a wide range of HR challenges and I later joined a HR webinar discussing new laws in HR.

In the afternoon, I sat with Jess and Sarah where I learnt about Marketing and Social Media campaigns, they outlined their roles in Strategi Creative and what they do day-to-day. After this, I was tasked with creating a marketing campaign for a product of my choice, I chose my favourite trainers and thought about how to market these to people and suppliers who may want to purchase the product. This was my favourite experience of the day!

Following on from this I sat with Ant and Dave who are both designers for Strategi Creative. They explained what they do, and showed me their work. My task was then to create a brand for a new business that was special to me, I really enjoy cricket as a hobby so I chose to focus on this. With their help, I drew a sketch for a potential logo, this was enjoyable as I was allowed to be creative.

On Friday, I spent the day with Rob on external meetings for Strategi HR, I got to visit a number of businesses throughout the day and found out some interesting facts about them all:

• I first visited SPE, who are an engineering company that’s been running for 40 years. I found out they manufacture and supply a wide range of components for specialised industries. I was lucky enough to have a tour of their facilities. I got to look inside some of their machinery, which was really cool.
• Next, I went to Valentine Clays who are a clay making company that have also been running for 40 years. They offer products for the studio pottery community and ceramics industry globally. I got to have a feel of the clay, which was really heavy!
• Then we visited Nemesis Now, a wholesale merchandiser, giftware and collectibles company running since 2003. This was my favourite place of the day! I love gaming and recognised a lot of characters with their products.
• Finally we went to the Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce, that’s been in existence since 1813! This business sounded like a great idea as they encourage businesses to join together and represent common interests and grow together which is really nice.

I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone that I was able to see, everyone took time out of their day for me to show me around and I found out so much about the business and the wide range of opportunities available to me once I finish education.