Graduate Success at H+K Strategies
Career progression is important to everyone, including recent graduates. The Graduate Programme at H+K Strategies is a fantastic place to start your career and develop it. We provide top training at The Hub - our internal training resource for the development of our people. H+K Strategies offers a friendly environment that actively supports internal career progression, so if you have what it takes, you will succeed.
To show you that fulfilling your career aspirations is possible at H+K Strategies, three of our past graduates would like to share their experience as an H+K Strategies graduate with you.
Find out what they think about the scheme, how it benefited them and some useful tips on how to stand out.
Dan: Senior Account Executive in Technology
On H+K Strategies’ Graduate Programme, you’re given a jump start. Rotating around the company, you get to meet loads of new people and learn about each sector. It really tests you.
I switched between the Sports and Technology teams – from running World Cup campaigns to creating art exhibitions for one of the world’s biggest technology brands, what you learn on the scheme is invaluable to your future development.
If I had any advice for a new joiner at H+K Strategies it would be to stay curious and always ask questions – there’s so much to learn and the great thing about a company like H+K Strategies is that it’s full of interesting and intelligent people from all different backgrounds and disciplines.
David: Account Manager in Financial + Professional Services
The grad programme was a very good introduction to the world of PR and comms for me, particularly as someone who’d come to this industry with no knowledge of it at all. By rotating across the retail, financial, public affairs and crisis departments, I developed a real sense of the different types of work a big agency does, and the different skills and tactics required for each.
My work today certainly reaps the benefits of having worked across these areas. In my current role as an Account Manager I advise clients in both the retail and financial sectors on B2C, B2B, crisis and public affairs campaigns.
It’s the combination of this variety of work, plus the expertise and talent of colleagues that you can learn from, that makes H+K Stratefies such a good place to start a career in PR. That, and the social life that goes with a building of 250 PR types with their own bar.
Sam: Head of Business and Offer Development
I joined H+K Strategies on the grad scheme in 1997, within 4 years I was leading the agency’s biggest account (at the time) the BT Global Challenge. I then went on to having the idea to start a new division and was given the go ahead to do it, which ended up being our successful Consumer Tech team.
In 2006, I thought it would be good to get a central perspective of the Agency and got the opportunity to lead our Business Development team. Some days it seems a long time ago that I joined the company, others it seems like yesterday.
What remains true about the Agency in my opinion is that it rewards and recognises good people and if you have an idea, it will listen - but don’t wait for someone to do it all for you as you’ll be waiting a long time. Other things that I love about the agency? Unlike many agencies, it is really friendly, almost familial. Oh and the bar of course.
If you are collaborative and entrepreneurial, organised, solutions led and you are prepared to work as well as play hard, you should apply.
If you have any questions about the Graduate Programme please refer to the Graduate Programme FAQs page first. Also read this insightful blog giving you five top tips on applying to H+K Strategies' grad scheme.
Applications are due midday Friday 28th October 2011.
