I originally applied for the internship through the program’s website which listed all the different companies who were on the scheme and what they were looking for. The program is designed to help both graduates and the companies; graduates gain valuable insight into how the business world works and actually to the jobs and the companies themselves can benefit from the skills of recent graduates when they may not have the human resources or budgets to accommodate an intern.

The main aim of the programme is to ‘match graduates with primarily the smaller Sussex companies to address issues of graduate under-employment and unemployment and so smaller creative businesses could benefit from engaging with a new graduate.’ The scheme has spread from offering 25 placements in its first year to more than 100 this year.

Mainly I wanted to do the internship to really get some proper experience of how companies work in the real world and how they market themselves. It will provide invaluable experience and hopefully I will be able to drag myself out of the no experience so no job/no job so no experience cycle that is affecting so many graduates these days. I have been working in a call centre for a few months and badly want to do something more interesting, even if it means being busier for less money!

I hope to bring my enthusiasm and skills to the team at Garage Studios so that we can both get the most out of the time I will spend here. I am hoping to get the exhibition launched in London and am putting together an EPK press pack at the minute, and we already have interest from Storm to try and get the show moved. Hopefully you will hear more from me soon.

Oh, and did I mention there’s an exhibition on in a couple of weeks?!

Cheers, Jonjo