Club La Santa

Placement organization

Name of organization: Club La Santa
Town/city: Tinajo
Country: Spanje
Website: http://www.clublasanta.com

Name of student: Lara Habold

Specialist area: ITTI
Placement period: 2015-2016

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Resort
Organization’s activities: Club La Santa is a sports resort, offering over 40 sports and activities included in the price.
Target group of the organization: (Danish) people interested in sports and being active
Company culture: The company culture is informal
Number of employees: 200
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working? Marketing
Brief description of your daily activities: Creating new content for social media, and during the events like the IRONMAN (triathlon) Lanzarote working with the press
Brief description of your company assignment: How to make our customers engage to our social media channels
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: My supervisor(s) let me work very independently, but I can ask them questions whenever I want. I started from the beginning but now I am also allowed to post on social media without running it by my company supervisor for example.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? Independent, flexible
Additional company requirements for this placement? Knowledge of social media, and basic computer skills.
English: Advanced
Spanish: Intermediate
French:
German:
Italian:
Other languages: If you speak Danish it is ideal, but I don’t and I never experienced difficulties.

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: Airplane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? Company
How did you go to work every day? by foot (I live in the hotel)

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? No
Do you need a work permit? No
How did you arrange the necessary documents:
How much time did it take to arrange the necessary documents?
Did you need certain vaccinations? No
How long in advance?

Language course

Did you take a language course before you started your placement? No
Would you recommend to have a language course prior to this placement? In normal day life you don’t need it, but for the events you should be able to talk Spanish

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 150
Accommodation (monthly): € 0
Local transport (monthly): € 60
General costs of living (monthly): € 200
Costs of visa: € 0
Costs of work permit: € 0
What did the company pay for/to you? Accommodation and lunch on workdays

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
I didn’t
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? It can be difficult to work in a Danish company in Spain, since Club La Santa is like an independent country, and a lot of people barely even leave the complex.

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: No
My e-mail address: 133361@edu.nhtv.nl

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Really get out of the complex and explore the island, and the other islands as well.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Club La Santa has basically everything. From restaurants and bars to all the sport facilities you could ever wish for, and of course a supermarket, etc.

Media

Youtube link Youtube placement video link