Sorry everybody for the delay in our Placement Blog! The last few months for us have been extremely busy getting stuck into our various positions within the company. We are all finding it hard to believe that we are already a quarter of the way through our placement year at ProspectSoft!
Following up on our last Blog, we experienced great success with the ProspectSoft Business Growth Workshop, which all the sales and marketing placement students contributed significantly towards. The event enabled us to utilise numerous sales and marketing strategies in the time running up to the event and during where we liaised with many potential customers, which was an exciting prospect for us all! It was truly a great team achievement, so we were all extremely happy that our hard work paid off by delivering some great sales opportunities for the company.
We are all in agreement that the amount of experience that we are gaining from our time at ProspectSoft has been greatly received by all and we are thriving on the increasing responsibility given to us on a daily basis. We recently had individual appraisals with our department mangers, where we were able to evaluate our progress to ensure that we are working to our best abilities and that we are enjoying our time at ProspectSoft, which there was no doubt about for any of us! It is clearly apparent that ProspectSoft takes great pride in their Placement Programme and our managers are therefore always willing to help us out. In our individual appraisals, we were each given the opportunity to set individual objectives and targets for ourselves so that we can measure our ongoing performance within the company, which is a great way for us to maximise our potential.
Every month we attend the company meeting where we are included in discussions on all areas of the business, which enables us to gain a real insight into areas of the business which may not be directly involved with. The ProspectSoft team always make great effort into arranging an array of social events, such as visits to the local pub, bowling, cinema trips and so on, which is a great contributing factor to our enjoyment as a placement at ProspectSoft. The hardworking, fun and dynamic atmosphere within ProspectSoft has enabled us to bond not just between us placement students but with the whole of the company!
On an individual perspective on what we have been getting up to:
Gemma in New Sales has become an expert in delivering web demonstrations of the ProspectSoft CRM software to potential customers across the country, whilst working hard arranging requirement meetings for our sales team with customers interested in ProspectSoft CRM and CMS. Gemma also provides great ongoing support and encouragement to our resellers to close more sales for the company.
Jeannine in Account Management has been working extremely hard liaising with ProspectSoft’s existing customers, keeping them happy by arranging strategic and usage reviews to ensure that they are getting the most out their CRM investment and sustaining our customer retention success. Jeannine has also been travelling out of the office to customers sites participating in post-implementation reviews, ensuring that customers who have just gone live with the ProspectSoft system are happy with the results.
Vicki has been working closely alongside ProspectSoft’s resellers assisting them in the organisation of their Business Growth Workshops and going out to assist in the running of their events. Vicki is a great support to the channel and helps them out on an ongoing basis to improve their sales and marketing strategies to deliver more sales for the company. Organising the recruitment for next years Sales and Marketing Placements has been another of Vicki’s task, which she is thoroughly enjoying!
Lorna has been undertaking various marketing activities, such as assisting in the delivery of the ProspectSoft LiveWire, which is the quarterly communication update to all of our resellers and assisting with any marketing queries they may have. Lorna has also been organising the recruitment of next years IT Support and Development placements and ensuring that all the universities are advertising our job specifications so that we receive lots of high quality job applicants this year!
Veronica and Chris, the Software Development Placements have been dealing with quite a few different projects recently, which they have been picking up in the past few weeks. Chris has been assigned a project which is worth about 10 weeks of development, which is pretty exciting and complex, whereas Veronica has been dealing with a lot of issues that has given her insight in a lot of different areas and allowed her to accumulate a lot of useful information. Chris and Veronica are starting to depend less and less on the help from the people around then, getting more independence and more confidence from our supervisors that they are doing the right things.
So as you can see, we are all thoroughly enjoying out placement experience at ProspectSoft – If you have any questions at all – please do not hesitate to drop us a comment and we will get back to you as soon as possible!
