Stay U-nique

Placement organization

Name of organization: Stay U-nique
Town/city: Barcelona
Country: Spanje
Website: https://stay-u-nique.com/en/home/

Student

Name of student: Dimitar Petkov

Specialist area: Tourism Management (EN)
Placement period: 2018-2019

Information about placement organization

Type of organization: Property Management
Organization’s activities: Stay U-nique is a property management company, so in order to grow they need to obtain more apartments. Therefore, one of their main activities is looking for new owners. But also optimizing their online channels to sell out those short-term rental apartments to tourists. There is also a team doing check-ins of the tourists. The digital marketing team helps optimize those channels, produces content and creates ads for owners. But also try to make the company as attractive as possible to future interns as they are nearly half of the employees.
Target group of the organization: owners of apartments, middle class tourists
Company culture: Informal, super-friendly, never seen a place like that, full of young and international people, like one big family
Number of employees: 30
Dress code: casual
Did the organization meet the agreements you made beforehand? yes

Information about your placement

In which department(s) are you working?

Digital Marketing

Brief description of your daily activities: Sales channel optimization, social media strategy optimization, planning, producing both printed and digital content, analysis of strategies, email campaigns, facebook ads, google analytics, customer service
Brief description of your company assignment: Optimizing online strategies
Comment briefly on your supervision by the organization: Absolutely outstanding, the supervisor is always there if you have questions or guidance. He is a leader and a mentor and provides you with opportunities to take bigger and bigger responsibilities.

Requirements for students on placement

What kind of personal skills are required for this placement? social, friendly, team player,
Additional company requirements for this placement? digital marketing skills
English: Advanced

The trip

Mode of transport to reach your destination: plane

Accommodation

How did you arrange your accommodation? uniplaces.com
How did you go to work every day? metro

Visa / work permit / vaccinations

Do you need a visa? no
Do you need a work permit? kinda yes, Stay U-nique assists with that.
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? Yes
Would you recommend to have a language course prior to this placement? Spanish can be useful

The costs in euros

Travelling expenses (e.g. return ticket): € 150
Accommodation (monthly): € 450
Local transport (monthly): € 40
General costs of living (monthly): € 400
Costs of visa: €
Costs of work permit: €
What did the company pay for/to you? 300 euro per month

Culture

How did you prepare for the country’s culture?
Didn’t really prepare for it.
Did the culture of the country influence your performance during the placement in any way? No.

Future students on placement

Future students are free to contact me for further information: Yes
My e-mail address: dimitar.d.petkov@abv.bg

Other information

Recommendations on what to do and what not to do: Don’t be late. Pay attention to what the “older” people in company have to say.
Leisure possibilities in the city/surroundings of where the placement took place: Barcelona offers everything. Also a lot of trip opportunities in the country.

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