{"id":454,"date":"2015-08-19T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sagestudents\/?p=454"},"modified":"2015-08-19T12:29:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:29:03","slug":"eva-and-lucys-work-experience-at-sage-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/sagestudents\/2015\/08\/19\/eva-and-lucys-work-experience-at-sage-hq\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva and Lucy’s Work Experience at SAGE HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re currently typing this from our desks in SAGE HQ where we\u00a0are loving the world of real work! We\u2019ve been here for just over a week and we\u2019ve done so much already, working with the design, marketing, editorial, user testing and PR teams.<\/p>\n

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Lucy at her desk!<\/p><\/div>\n

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So far we have\u00a0helped the Design team to re-design the back covers of textbooks to make them more visually appealing to students, and made suggestions for the\u00a0contents of a student goodie bag for students. With the PR department\u00a0we\u00a0evaluated\u00a0SAGE’s\u00a0website and their two blogs: SAGE Connections and SAGE insight which incorporate both articles and blog posts and then wrote draft blogs for them. We\u2019ve also helped Marketing shape student profiles in order for them to have personas to target their marketing to and then presented the profiles to the Marketing team yesterday. Over the past few days we’ve also reviewed unpublished textbooks, written draft email campaigns, tested wire frame website designs and had lessons in Product Managing, not to mention exploring the perks of a staff canteen and the consumption of copious amounts of free coffee!<\/p>\n

Working for SAGE has been excellent and we\u2019ve both learnt a lot about publishing. We\u2019ve been surprised at how much work goes into every aspect of a book and its selling process and have been impressed with how much effort is put into helping students. The people we’ve met have all been really keen to explain the processes of publishing and have all given us really interesting tasks.<\/p>\n

And the commute\u00a0to London hasn\u2019t been too bad, despite London feeling the need\u00a0to confirm its stereotype and being\u00a0pretty wet and\u00a0grey most of the time!<\/p>\n

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On the way to work<\/p><\/div>\n

Although we have been doing work for SAGE for almost 2 years now, working within the team has been a totally different experience. We have found it fascinating and have both been a little tempted by the publishing career path! As well as learning about what it\u2019s like to work for a publishing company, by doing different tasks for we have also discovered what elements of the job we\u2019re interested in.<\/p>\n

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