By Nicola Hodson, MSc Marketing Management Practice
One of the many amazing opportunities you get given as a postgraduate student at Sheffield University Management School is something called the Postgraduate Advantage Scheme (PAS), which offers opportunities for students within the Faculty of Social Sciences to carry out a 100 hour long internship for an organisation in Sheffield.
I recently completed my internship as a Production and Marketing Intern for Sort Of…Films, a film and video production company in Sheffield. During my internship, I tried my hand at many things I have never done before, such as assisting on film shoots, including a shoot about women in engineering and a shoot at Sheffield Town Hall about the care system. Previously, I knew next to nothing about cameras and filming, so to be given the opportunity to learn how to do this was really interesting and fun.
The majority of my internship was spent putting together a marketing strategy for the company. This was a brilliant experience to put what I have learnt during my degree into practice and produce something meaningful for the organisation. I was given a 
huge amount of responsibility during this process, and can genuinely say I was extremely proud of what I produced. This experience has definitely boosted my employability and has been incredibly valuable in terms of skills I can take forwards into a job.
Sort Of…Films were great throughout my whole internship, ensuring that I felt happy with my experience every step of the way and letting me guide the internship depending on my interests. I think the Postgraduate Advantage Scheme is such a fantastic opportunity and one which has helped prepare me for my future career once leaving university.