Gaby's time as a Working Student at Echometer (experience report)

How I cam to Echometer

Throughout this difficult year post-graduation, I was looking for full-time work in order to stay in Germany. With the virus and the number of responses from my applications, it clearly wasn’t happening. Therefore, when I had an offer from Echometer to be the in-house translator and learn content marketing for the blog, I took it as a great chance to learn and collect experience.

Facts about me:

• Born and raised in Hong Kong
• B.A. in Fine Arts - University of Hong Kong
• M.A. in National and Transnational Studies - WWU Münster
• 6 months as a working student
• 4 previous internships, one in a startup!

My start at Echometer

After starting the job, I was excited to work closely in all aspects of the company that I was interested in, and even started doing sales as well. It was a really great feeling, knowing that my abilities were trusted and that I was producing results. Although I have been translating material for the last 10 years or so, I mostly did it unprofessionally and didn’t learn many new skills from it. I was eager to build upon that and learn content marketing. Echometer gave me the chance to use Analytics, play around with A/B testing on Optimise, and explore Wordpress. After I took on a more sales-centric role, I started making sales calls and did a couple of coaching sessions. I became a lot more confident in my presentation skills, learned a lot about our product and how to use LinkedIn Sales Navigator and LeadConnect. Thanks to this, I now have way too many connections on LinkedIn! :D Through all of this, and I cannot emphasise this enough, I was generously offered the opportunity to learn about everything I had interest in, and could bring to my next job. Alongside this, I made some friends for life. I believe that this startup experience is something that I will likely not be able to experience again.

My tasks

• Translation of blog articles into English
• Translating and optimising website content
• Writing LinkedIn teasers for newly translated blog articles
• Communication with Asian business partners
• LinkedIn sales outreach
• Conducting sales demos for product
• etc. etc. etc.

My Highlight - apart from the cocktail party

Evidently, to begin work with a cocktail party was a huge highlight for me. Other memorable moments were our online Christmas party with an escape room exercise, our hangout after work at the office (with a great view at the harbour!) and our team climbing date. 

On a more serious note, getting to build my own free trial landing page was a big step for me. I got to use it to test out our hypothesis with my sales leads on LinkedIn - and it made me feel extremely productive.

What I benefitted from at Echometer

Echometer gave me a chance when no one else would, and gave me a chance to learn that I would otherwise likely not get at most other companies. 

I was encouraged to try everything, make mistakes, fix my mistakes and listen in to what everyone else was doing. I was offered a job at Huawei in B2B marketing, which I believe that was mostly because of what I could take with me from the 6 months at Echometer.

Echometer offers:

• A small and friendly team in a startup environment
• Individual support in personal career development
• Practical experience in marketing and sales
• Experience with agile ways of working, and now Holacracy
• Regular team events
• Flexible working hours
• Chance to work remotely, on-site, or both

My conclusion

“My working student position at Echometer allowed me to get insights into diverse topics and work independently. At the same time I was encourage to speak up and implement my own ideas. The experience really accelerated my development and prepared me for my next position at Huawei.”

If you are interested in joining the team…

Send your CV and cover letter to Christian!

The Echometer team looks forward to meeting you!